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WSJ: Opinion | Biden’s Tax and Rationing Plan for Medicare

President Biden on Tuesday rolled out a plan he says will shore up Medicare for decades, and we’re all supposed to believe the spin: looming insolvency averted. But this proposal is really a huge tax increase paired with prescription-drug rationing that does nothing to reform the health entitlement, and the tax ratchet is only beginning.

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WSJ: The West’s Drug-Price Self-Sabotage

Democrats and even some Republicans want to import Europe’s drug price controls. So it’s worth observing how Europe’s raid on drug makers to bolster its ailing national health systems is reducing pharmaceutical investment and access to treatments.

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Blog: The elemental importance of health, at least to me.

When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me there was nothing more important than health. Despite many colds, broken bones, and even when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 23, I couldn’t see why he stressed this point so vehemently.

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SFS New Year’s Resolutions

It’s time for everyone’s resolutions, personal and professional. At Survivors For Solutions, the new year means bringing about a new kind of advocacy by patients for patients…

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STAT Newsletter: GOP political vet founds new anti-IRA patient group

John Czwartacki’s resume is a laundry list of posts throughout pretty much every GOP political arena imaginable — he worked for former House Speaker John Boehner early in his career, as a spokesperson for former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, for FEMA in the Bush administration shortly after the 9/11 attacks, and for then-OMB Director Mick Mulvaney in the Trump White House — and now, he’s adding advocacy on drug pricing to his list…

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