Health CareCommentary
To Protect Women, Trust the Science on Abortion
Trust the science. These three words, when heeded, have the potential to save thousands of lives. As a rule, our leaders should defer to peer-reviewed… Read More
Health CareCommentary
With So-Called Build Back Better Bill, Socialist Health Care Agenda Is Closer Than You Think
Politico got it right: “Democrats’ social spending proposal represents a sweeping expansion of the health safety net … .” Despite claims that negotiations among Democrats… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Rx for Disaster: Democrats’ Bill Shows How Not to Get Affordable, Innovative Prescription Drugs
Congressional Democrats have released their latest version of a drug-pricing proposal that would expand government’s role by setting prices for prescription drugs for the first… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Ron Johnson: Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Meets ‘Definition of Insanity’
The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, set to go into effect Friday, poses risks to some Americans, further burdens the economy, and… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Marsha Blackburn Aims to Help ‘Essential Workers’ Who Face Firing Under Biden Vaccine Mandates
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is standing behind essential workers who may be fired for standing up to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, she told The Daily… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We Should All Know the Name Henrietta Lacks
On a hot summer day, Aug. 1, 1920, a woman named Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia. Though blessed with the gift of life,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Democrats Ponder Cutting Medicare Advantage to Fund $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill
Politico is reporting that congressional Democrats are pondering major cuts to Medicare Advantage, a system of competing private health plans, to help pay for their massive multitrillion-dollar spending bill. This would be a bad policy. Compared to traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage provides better benefits, lower costs, and higher… Read More
Health CareCommentary
‘Wounding Warriors’ Authors Highlight Flawed VA Model That Is Letting Veterans Down
Daniel Gade and Daniel Huang’s recently released book “Wounding Warriors: How Bad Policy Is Making Veterans Sicker and Poorer” can be summed in one simple… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress Shouldn’t Exempt Medicare From Mandatory Budget Cuts
The federal budget’s largest programs, especially Medicare, are growing at unsustainable rates. To ensure fiscal responsibility, Congress needs to control the growth of programs that… Read More
Health CareNews
Vaccine Mandates Decimating Police Forces Across US
As crime rates surge, so are vaccine mandates—and resistance by police to those mandates. That means major cities across the United States risk losing one-third… Read More
Health CareNews
CDC Says 5 Year Olds Will Still Need to Wear Masks After Vaccine Is Approved for Kids
Students as young as 5 years old may still need to wear masks in school after the COVID-19 vaccine is approved for children ages 5-11,… Read More
Health CareNews
New York City to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine for Entire City Workforce
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that all New York City municipal workers would be required to have a COVID-19 vaccination. All… Read More
Health CareCommentary
7 Ways Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Bill Would Take Over Your Health Care
Slimming down the cost of the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion social-welfare spending bill is a compromise that misses the point. Opposition to the tax-and-spending bill… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why Are Left-Wing Lawmakers OK With $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Bill Boosting Health Insurers’ Profits?
Moderate and left-wing congressional Democrats continue to wrangle over the details of their partisan $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill, but there’s one thing they agree on:… Read More
Health Care Analysis
This Doctor Opposes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate. Now His State Won’t Let Him Practice Medicine.
Dr. Stephen Skoly is a well-known oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Rhode Island. He has been called to testify before lawmakers and serves as chairman… Read More
Health CareSocietyCommentary
Leftists Celebrating Conservatives Who Die of COVID-19 Is a New Low Even for the Left
Popular social media site Reddit seems to be suffering from a huge lack of empathy. Visitors to the site are greeted not just by pictures… Read More
Health Care Analysis
A Young Survivor Shares Her Story During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Gloria Taylor, a communications manager at The Heritage Foundation, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year at the age of 26. In a matter of… Read More
Health CareSocietyCommentary
Economist: Let Life Resume
America remains bound by often extreme pandemic restrictions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying 6 feet away from others. In Oregon, everyone… Read More
Health CareCommentary
‘Build Back Better’ Plan Would Make Medicaid Bigger With Less Flexibility, Accountability
A lot of transformative health care policy is embedded in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill, including continuation of the Biden administration’s campaign to strip… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Adding Dental Benefits to Medicare Is a Solution in Search of a Problem
The massive government expansion bill that congressional Democrats are currently trying to enact includes provisions that would add new dental benefits to Medicare, the federal… Read More
Health CareCommentary
‘Build Back Better’ Plan Puts in Place a Government Option and Sets a Path to Single-Payer
As negotiations over the staggering $3.4 trillion “Build Back Better” plan price tag continue to raise concern, the health policy agenda put forth in the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Health Policy Changes in Democrats’ Spending Bill Would Reduce Patients’ Choices, Raise Taxpayer Costs
The left’s health policy strategy is simple: Step by step, centralize government control over larger chunks of the health care sector of the economy, add… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Democrats’ Drug Price Controls Threaten Biotech Research, Patients
There are too many dreadful provisions in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending monstrosity to count, but one is rising to the surface as especially destructive. That… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Democrats Plot War on New Drugs
The $3.5 trillion spending orgy supported by President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Sen. Bernie Sanders includes a poison pill—almost literally. The Congressional Budget… Read More
Health CareCommentary
We Hear You: Vaccine Mandates and Power Grabs
Editor’s note: President Biden’s mandate that larger employers force employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 hit a nerve, judging from the mailbag at letters@DailySignal.com. Here’s… Read More
Health CareNews
San Francisco Mayor Goes to Nightclub Maskless, Breaks Own Mandate
San Francisco Mayor London Breed was seen maskless at a local nightclub Wednesday in violation of the city’s current mask guidance, a local news outlet… Read More
Health CareCommentary
COVID-19 and the Death of Science
The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking. In empirical fashion, scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by… Read More
Health CareNews
CDC Says Unvaccinated Americans 11 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19
Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Biden’s Divisive COVID-19 Vaccination Plan Favors Coercion Over Persuasion
“Look, we’re the United States of America,” President Joe Biden said, concluding his speech announcing his latest COVID-19 vaccination plan. “There’s nothing—not a single thing—we’re… Read More
Health CareNews
Fauci-Funded Wuhan Lab Viruses 10,000 Times Stronger Than Usual, Documents Show
American and Chinese researchers funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s federal agency created viruses in a Wuhan lab that exhibited over 10,000 times higher viral load… Read More
