The Right Prescription
What to Know: Health care consumers will soon have much more data at their fingertips.
The TPPF Take: Health care price transparency is good for patients—and providers.
“Most Americans want hospitals to show their prices,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, nearly 90% are in favor of an initiative by the government to mandate disclosure of negotiated prices by hospitals, insurers, and other medical professionals.”
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Why Would They?
What to Know: Fewer and fewer young Americans are willing and able to serve in the U.S. military.
The TPPF Take: This is because in many ways, the military has gone woke.
“My own decision to enlist the military in 1983 was motivated by President Ronald Reagan and his call to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “In 2007, I retired as a lieutenant colonel. If I were 20 today, there’d be zero chance I’d enlist to serve under a group of people whom I thought hated me and despised my political views — and who would use my time in military service as a cross between a reeducation camp and an armed international social service agency.”
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Get Ready
What to Know: Inflation—and its effects—will be here for a while, economists say.
The TPPF Take: This isn’t your fault.
“With the economy stagnating and inflation soaring, stagflation is here for the first time since the Great Inflation of the 1970s because of bad policies out of Washington,” says TPPF’s Vance Ginn. “A recession is inevitable as the government-inflated ‘boom’ busts—and we could already be in one. But pro-growth policies would help ease the pain.”
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