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We all want health care we can trust – high quality, fair prices, everyone covered, no surprises.  America’s medical system offers some of the best health care in the world. But how we pay for health care is broken. Bad government policy has changed the role of health insurance, moving it away from protection against financial risk and making it instead a middleman in nearly every healthcare transaction. Overall, health care poses a very high cost burden for Americans because we lack a competitive, transparent, patient-centered marketplace. Structural reform is needed.
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This Healthcare Reform Would Help Patients And Taxpayers Alike

Mary Vought | Op-eds
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Moving To France Showed Me True Cost of ‘Free’ European Health Care, Child Care, and Retirement

Ellie Krasne | Op-eds
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These drug price reforms could be great — if Democrats don’t ruin them first

Mary Vought | Op-eds
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When The Charge For Tylenol Is $4,000, It’s Clear The U.S. Health System Is Failing Us

Kelsey Bolar & Judy Pino | Op-eds | Costs & Accessiblity

Read on the Miami Herald Leer en El Nuevo Herald Across the country, higher co-pays and deductibles are making healthcare unaffordable even for patients with insurance. But for Hispanics, who are statistically less insured than the general population…

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Rethinking the area deprivation index: a call for more effective measures to promote health equity

Srilekha Palle | Op-eds
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Youth Tobacco Use at Records Lows in Yellowhammer State

Lindsey Stroud | Blog
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The Democratization of Medical Tests

Patricia Patnode | Blog
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FACT CHECK: Did the American Federation of Teachers Try to Open Schools?

Makenna McCoy | Unicorn Fact Check
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Another National Survey Finds Youth Vaping Down, Tobacco Use At Record Lows

Lindsey Stroud | Blog
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Randi Weingarten Denies Her Union’s Role in School Closures

Nicole Solas | Blog
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The Real Reason Why Hospitals Are Still Not Being Transparent About Prices

Hadley Heath Manning | Op-eds
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Youth Tobacco and Vapor Product Use Has Declined (Modestly) in Massachusetts

Lindsey Stroud | Blog
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Youth Vaping Rates Declined More Significantly in States Without Flavor Bans

Lindsey Stroud | Blog
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Social Security on the Brink of a Crisis, Policymakers Must Reform

Carrie Sheffield | Blog
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Youth Tobacco and Vapor Product Use Down in Hawaii

Lindsey Stroud | Blog
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FACT CHECK: Is It Really More Dangerous To Give Birth Today Than in 1965?

Kristin Shapiro | Unicorn Fact Check

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