Of the 20 million newly insured under the Affordable Care Act in 2017, about 14.5 million were newly enrolled in Medicaid, nearly 5 million of whom were eligible but not enrolled before the Medicaid expansion. So Medicaid accounts for a large portion of ACA’s claimed effect of increasing the number of insured. Medicaid is not […]

Many issues, such as health and national security, ought to be nonpartisan in a logical world. But seldom has Congress been so deeply divided, and so many issues decided on a strict party-line vote. Bipartisanship has many advocates, and it occasionally occurs. The late Senator John McCain was the best-known example. But it does seem […]

The federal government is increasingly involved in intimate medical decisions, with requirements for detailed documentation and coding of all diagnoses and procedures. This enables denial of payment, and even prosecution of doctors for “fraud and abuse” if they deviate from government “guidelines,” or charge too much or too little. There is nothing in the U.S. […]

The opioid overdose crisis has sparked a lot of legislation, most aimed at restricting prescriptions for legal drugs. But while prescriptions diminish, the death toll rises, mostly because of illegal fentanyl. Some have stated that fentanyl is being used as a chemical weapon against America. But most legislation ignores the problem of open borders and […]