Robert Emmet Moffit, PhD., is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Welfare Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and coeditor of Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Competition from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Drip, drip, drip. Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, more details are being revealed concerning the failure of federal public health officials to come clean… Read More
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March 23, 2010. Sixteen years ago, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, thus locking into statutory concrete the dysfunctional status quo… Read More
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Medicare Advantage—a popular system of competitive private health plans—can be greatly improved. Congress can do so by expanding benefit options for patients and enhancing the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the United… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but the vaccine controversy is not. Concerning the jab, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ignited a… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We have been witnessing lunacy. Senate Democrats repeatedly voted against a short-term, “clean” resolution to reopen the federal government because they insist, amidst massive deficits… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Today, 54% of all Medicare patients get their coverage through Medicare Advantage, or MA. That’s Medicare’s popular system of private health plans—and currently, it’s the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
James Carville, the Democrats’ colorful campaigner and newly minted immunologist, recently declared: “Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary, maybe… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicare’s financial condition is worsening—and it’s time for our ever-reluctant Congress to start the arduous legislative task of making much-needed changes to the program. In… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is quickly delivering on his agenda. First, his promise… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Left is nothing if not persistent. While Congress has been exhaustively debating the tax cut and spending details of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful,… Read More
Health CareNews
Seventy-five years of preparation for an outbreak like that of COVID-19—and yet, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still failed to “reliably meet expectations”… Read More
Health CareNews
We all know the problems with American health care. It costs too much, there are gaps in insurance coverage, health care markets are uncompetitive, provider payments are often… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump told our new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “go wild” on health. Backing up Kennedy,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has a herculean task: “Make America Healthy Again.” As Politico… Read More
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This is the final piece in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left… Read More
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This is the seventh in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
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This is the sixth in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This is the fifth in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This is the fourth in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This is the third in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This is the second in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This is the first in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab experimentation designed to genetically manipulate biological agents to make them… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If you really believed former Vice President Kamala Harris and her media allies, the United States has just inaugurated a fascist dictator, Donald Trump, as… Read More
LawCommentary
It seems President Joe Biden won’t stop at letting his convicted son Hunter off the hook. The White House staff is reportedly pondering an unprecedented, preemptive set… Read More
Health CareCommentary
One of the top domestic policy challenges facing the incoming Trump administration is the fundamental reform of federal public health agencies. President Donald Trump and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Biden-Harris administration officials seriously misled the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a detailed and devastating report, the Republican majority of the House Subcommittee… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How the mighty have fallen! Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a coveted Emmy Award in 2020 in recognition of his daily televised briefings… Read More
