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Lawmakers Target the Power of Health Insurance Giants

After years of rampant expansion into nearly every corner of the health care system, the biggest insurance conglomerates are confronting new efforts to break up their businesses. Arguing that the companies have become too dominant, Arkansas and Tennessee passed laws that aim to prevent the companies from managing prescription benefits and running retail and mail-order pharmacies. Lawmakers in other states and in Washington have proposed similar restrictions. In response, the three companies — UnitedHealth Group,…

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Report Shows Obamacare Fraud Is Worse Than You Think

Following the expiration of the Covid-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies at the end of last year, the corporate media have remained focused on how much Exchange enrollment might decline this year. But a new report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides another perspective on the issue.   Official reports by the Congressional Budget Office and Government Accountability Office have previously examined how applicants misstate their income to qualify for subsidies and how Exchanges permitted enrollment of fictitious applicants. But the data HHS…

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Stop Germany, Japan Free-Riding On U.S. Drug Innovation

The developed world has long forced American patients to disproportionately shoulder the cost of pharmaceutical innovation. And President Donald Trump has had enough. He recently put our allies on notice—by launching a formal trade investigation into Germany’s unfair drug pricing practices and signaling his readiness to formally investigate other nations if they refuse to change course. Those investigations are desperately needed. Germany’s government is poised to enact an even more aggressive price-setting scheme in the…

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U.S. opens tariff probe targeting Germany’s drug pricing policies

The U.S. has launched an investigation into Germany’s pharma policies over what it referred to as “persistent underpayment” for medicines as the European country looks to limit spiraling healthcare costs, including spending on drugs. “President Trump has made clear that American patients should not be shouldering a disproportionate share of global pharmaceutical research and development,” said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in a statement late Thursday. “I am particularly concerned with news that Germany is fast-tracking…

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The ‘most favored nation’ threat is real. Seniors should take notice

People have spent a lifetime paying taxes in exchange for the promise of Medicare coverage once they reach 65. In return, seniors expect to receive the highest quality care and access to innovative, impactful treatments and therapies they need to maintain their health. The “most favored nation” drug pricing policy being considered by the Trump administration threatens to disrupt their Medicare coverage completely by importing foreign price-setting policies that could limit access to the medications millions depend on. Every Medicare beneficiary…

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Biden blunders made drug price controls even worse

The comically misnamed Inflation Reduction Act imposed government price controls on prescription drugs by replacing the old non-interference principal, which used market-average prices to set drug reimbursement, with a scheme that allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to directly set prices via a sham negotiation, in which the manufacturer has to agree or face a punitive seizure via a tax equal to 95% of the product’s total sales. A system like that undermines the return on the…

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Foreign drug price controls are a hidden tax on Americans

The United States spends far more on healthcare, on a per capita basis, than any other country in the world. There are many reasons why, including health insurance companies. But one reason has been largely overlooked: foreign governments maintain pricing systems that limit what they pay for drugs. The difference has been absorbed in the United States, with the result that Americans cover a disproportionate share of the world’s drug costs. These pharmaceutical pricing systems need to be…

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End the Big Insurance Protection Racket

By Phil Kerpen May 20, 2026 The health insurance companies have taken to the airwaves to blame the hospital systems for out-of-control health care costs. Their argument has some merit, because hospital costs have skyrocketed in recent years. But the insurance companies have been the chief culprits in the cartelization of health care, and it was the Obamacare law they helped shape that was the proximate cause of industrywide consolidation, with a loss of choice…

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