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The Battle for Usable Pricing in Health Care Is On-Going
Two recent publications make it clear that the problem of irrational pricing in health care is far from resolved despite the current suite of transparency requirements. First, the Purchaser Business…
Blog Post
Housing Affordability? Build, Baby, Build
Plain and simple (if not so easy politically): The cure for America’s housing crisis isn’t government subsidies or corporate scapegoats. It’s more homes. And this “supply and demand” solution isn’t…
Blog Post
The Megabill’s Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program
As Republicans in Congress raced to approve their tax-and-spending-program megabill before July 4th, the financial viability of the nation’s rural hospitals emerged as a potential obstacle to final passage. The GOP’s solution—a…
Op-Ed
Health Care Subsidies Are a Political Shortcut, Not a Lasting Policy Solution
With the GOP tax-and-spending megabill enacted into law, the next politically charged health care debate is heating up. Congress must decide relatively soon whether to extend the enhanced premium credits for…
Article
Time to Build … New US Cities
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, It’s unfortunate: America has forgotten how to build cities, or maybe it just lost interest. The last major one was Irvine, California, incorporated back in…
Blog Post
AI’s Uncertain Cost Effects in Health Care
The health care industry has a long history of below-average productivity gains, but there is cautious optimism that artificial intelligence (AI) will break the pattern. As in the past, the industry’s…
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…Detroit that would be named for Frederick Douglass. To clear the way for this and many similar projects named for important black historical figures such as Ida B. Wells, James…
Report
Disability Law Should Not Be Misapplied to Foster Parent Eligibility
Key Points In an announcement by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in August 2023, OCR appeared to adopt the position that being…
Article
AI Is Having Job Effects. And That’s Ok
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, I’ve got something for everyone today. If you’re an AI optimist, this essay shows generative AI is having real-world impacts. So not algorithmic vaporware! And…
Blog Post
The High and Rising Costs of Employer-Provided Health Care
An annual survey of businesses sponsoring employee health coverage is warning of expensive premium hikes in 2026, with an expected average jump of 9.0 percent before cost-cutting changes are implemented. Employers…
Op-Ed
Have You Heard the Good News?
…the far right often using placeholder words like globalist, the far left preferring words like Zionist, though increasingly just going to full-on Jew-blaming (stay classy, James). Both ends of the horseshoe advocate intrusive, autocratic socialistic…
Op-Ed
Bill Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of the Future Free Market
“We’re not running out of rich people,” Bill Gates recently told David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times Magazine in an interview about why he was deciding to close the doors of his foundation in 20…