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Think Advisor | Bill Could Give Low-Income ACA Exchange Plan Users HSAs

BY ROSS KAMINSKY | Dean Clancy is a senior policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity and a Paragon Health Institute public advisor. He was involved in the creation of Health Savings Accounts. We’ll discuss AFP’s new campaign to promote “site-neutral payments” to ensure that Medicare patients pay the same for drugs regardless of where they’re administered. Unsurprisingly, hospitals are vehemently opposed.

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KOA | Dean Clancy on New “Site-Neutral Payments” Campaign for Medicare Patients

BY ROSS KAMINSKY | Dean Clancy is a senior policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity and a Paragon Health Institute public advisor. He was involved in the creation of Health Savings Accounts. We’ll discuss AFP’s new campaign to promote “site-neutral payments” to ensure that Medicare patients pay the same for drugs regardless of where they’re administered. Unsurprisingly, hospitals are vehemently opposed.

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RealClear Health | The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan? Yes, It Embraces the Personal Option.RealClear Health

BY AAMIR HUSSAIN | U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) calls his healthcare reform bill “the world’s greatest healthcare plan.” That’s a bold statement, but his plan represents a strong and workable alternative which purports to give individual Americans more direct control over their healthcare. This proposed legislation maintains certain well-received aspects of Obamacare while abolishing all health insurance purchase mandates.

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The Washington Post | Let’s give people back control of their health care

BY DEAN CLANCY | In her June 2 op-ed, “What’s knocking Americans off Medicaid rolls? Paperwork.,” Catherine Rampell wrote that “bureaucratic snafus” are causing millions of Americans to lose Medicaid coverage gained during the pandemic emergency. This mismanagement — along with the fact that as of 2021, about 1 in 5 Medicaid dollars are spent improperly — calls into question the government’s ability to manage health care on a large scale.

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Washington Examiner Opinion | Americans feel helpless when it comes to healthcare, but help is on the way

BY DEAN CLANCY | Forty percent of voters say the high and rising cost of healthcare represents a “crisis,” according to a recent poll. A majority (56%) say they feel “helpless” when dealing with the U.S. healthcare system — that the system is in charge, not them.

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | OPINION – RYAN NORRIS: Not good enough

BY RYAN NORRISS | A recent study ranked Arkansas’ health-care system 47th in the country–and dead last for health-care outcomes. There’s no one in the state who thinks that’s acceptable. To fix the problem, we need to abandon the idea that a one-size-fits-all government program is the solution. But with a ranking of 47th in the country, we need to be looking for innovative answers. A “public option” or so-called Medicare-for-All would only exacerbate the problem.

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