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Report shows Medicare’s hospital trust fund will run out of money in just five years Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity responded to the latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees report which cast a dire forecast on Medicare’s finances. Like last year’s trustees forecast and the one before it, the latest report projects that […]
Congress’ proposed “infrastructure” packages — the first worth $1.2 trillion and the follow-up, spearheaded by Senator Bernie Sanders, worth an additional $3.5 trillion — would hurt taxpayers, fund lawmakers’ partisan pet projects, and grow the federal government’s control over American health care, argue Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips and former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in an op-ed for National Review. Senator Sanders’ […]
Medicaid’s improper payment rate jumped from 9 percent in 2018 to 21 percent in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “That might seem like just one more big number from Washington, but it amounts to a whopping $143 billion,” wrote Americans for Prosperity Senior Policy Fellow Dean Clancy in an op-ed for The Hill, adding that these lost […]
Updated on January 25, 2022 to include the news that AFP Foundation’s FOIA lawsuit spurred CMS to release — for the first time ever — state-level Medicaid improper payment data. Eric Bolinder had spotted a problem. A big one. He and his team of policy experts at Americans for Prosperity’s sister organization, Americans for Prosperity […]
Nearly 40 percent of the new spending in Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” plan would go to expanding government-funded health insurance. Believe it or not, that $1.3 trillion in new health care spending is bigger than Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. About 40 percent bigger, in fact. And the purpose […]
Earlier this summer we detailed how the president’s “infrastructure” plan would hurt your health care. Events have progressed quickly since then. The Senate recently passed a $1.2 trillion “hard infrastructure” package, and Senator Bernie Sanders is now proposing a $3.5 trillion spending spree that would grant government greater control over our health care system. In […]
West Virginia’s health care regulations were a huge impediment to quality, affordable care before the COVID-19 pandemic. Its restrictions on telehealth, in particular, made it difficult for patients — especially those living in rural areas and with limited mobility — to see their doctors remotely. So, when the pandemic reached American shores, West Virginia lawmakers went about suspending and repealing those regulations to […]
New YouGov/AFP survey shows voters prefer increasing market competition over price controls by more than 2-to-1 ratio. Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity released the results of a new survey conducted by YouGov on voter attitudes toward reducing the cost of prescription drugs. Nearly seven in ten voters (68%) agreed that to reduce costs, […]
Under the guise of infrastructure, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and his allies are plotting the biggest expansion of government-run health care since the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare). In fact, if recent news reports are accurate, it is more than 60 percent bigger than the ACA. The tragedy is that much of the proposed […]
