Market Institute President Charles Sauer joined The Steve Gruber Show to discuss hospital consolidation, rising health care costs, and the government policies that are distorting the market. Sauer argued that consolidation itself isn’t necessarily the problem. In a functioning free market, mergers and acquisitions can create efficiencies and give entrepreneurs Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues that Congress has an opportunity to strengthen independent medicine through the Patients First Act—but lawmakers should ensure that physician payment reform does not simply become another source of higher federal spending. Writing in RealClearHealth, Sauer notes that Americans overwhelmingly prefer independent physician practices, even Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer writes in the Boston Herald that Massachusetts has an opportunity to lead the fight against fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare Advantage by addressing the incentives that encourage insurers to inflate patient diagnoses and collect higher government reimbursements. Medicare Advantage now serves roughly 35 million Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer is calling on Congress to make Alzheimer’s early detection a priority when lawmakers return from August recess. In a new op-ed for the Daily Caller, Sauer argues that Congress should move quickly on the bipartisan ASAP Act, legislation designed to create a Medicare coverage pathway Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer joined Steve Gruber to discuss the spending battle on Capitol Hill and how healthcare reform could help bring skeptical Republicans on board. Sauer argues that while lawmakers fight over a relatively small piece of the federal budget, they are overlooking major opportunities for savings by Read more…
As Congress debates the future of Reconciliation 3.0, Republicans face mounting pressure to balance fiscal discipline with advancing their legislative agenda. In a new Washington Examiner op-ed, Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues lawmakers don’t have to choose between the two. Instead, Sauer points to long-overdue reforms within Medicare and Read more…
The Market Institute has joined the Center for a Free Economy and more than three dozen national organizations in urging Congress to pass the USTRx Act (H.R. 4780), legislation that would help end the unfair practice of foreign governments shifting the cost of pharmaceutical innovation onto American patients. In a Read more…
The healthcare system is often described as broken, but as Charles Sauer explained during a recent event hosted by the Mises Institute, the solutions already exist. The challenge is not creating better models of care—it’s removing the government policies that prevent them from flourishing. Recorded on June 27 in Windham, Read more…
A newly published paper in The Milbank Quarterly adds to the growing body of evidence that the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program has strayed far from its original purpose, strengthening the case for meaningful congressional reform. In a recent RealClearMarkets commentary, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton highlights Stretching Scarce Read more…
A new RealClearHealth op-ed by Dr. Craig Wax argues that if Congress is serious about reducing healthcare costs and increasing competition, lawmakers must reform one of the federal government’s biggest distortions: Medicare’s unequal payment system. Dr. Wax explains how current Medicare policy allows hospital systems to charge significantly more than Read more…