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Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s executive order requiring private businesses with over 100 employees to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or weekly testing: “Vaccines are a crucial component of ending this pandemic. But government-imposed mandates will only further divide the country and the trust […]
“The president’s plan is a government takeover of health care that would cause drug rationing,” said Dean Clancy, the organization’s senior health policy fellow. Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity issued a statement on the Biden administration’s newly unveiled plan to address the cost of prescription drugs. Most notably, the plan would allow the […]
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 […]
