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The national and state push for healthcare price transparency
January 23, 2026 by Harry Roth in Other
Last week, President Trump unveiled his “Great Healthcare Plan” to reduce drug prices, lower premiums, bring much needed price transparency, and give direct payments to American citizens instead of t…
Read More →NPV would silence Virginia voters
January 22, 2026 by Trent England in Electoral College
NPV would mean that state voters no longer choose their own presidential electors. The voice of Virginia would be lost.
Read More →Rank MI Vote loss was a big deal
January 15, 2026 by Trent England in Elections
Ranked-choice voting advocates pushed to make Michigan the largest RCV experiment ever, despite the system only being used at far smaller scales and showing problems elsewhere.
Read More →Sec. Kennedy Calls for Price Transparency
January 13, 2026 by Staff in Other
In a video yesterday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy asked the key question: Why do patients often have little or no information about the cost of medical treatment—at least until they get the bills?Pre…
Read More →Are RCV donors done?
January 8, 2026 by Trent England in Elections
Voters can be thankful if some of the biggest donors are moving on from RCV.
Read More →National Popular Vote’s Small Plurality Problem
January 7, 2026 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
The danger of not having a runoff is that the winner might be someone with very modest support.
Read More →An Easy Fix for Government
December 15, 2025 by Trent England in Other
Congress doesn’t work, the debt is out of control, and trust in our institutions is crumbling.
Read More →Lincoln and “America 250”
November 19, 2025 by Trent England in Other
Next year is our nation’s 250th birthday. But why? The Revolution did not begin, nor end, in July of 1776.
Read More →Hidden 340B subsidies finally drawing scrutiny
November 6, 2025 by Trent England in Other
Healthcare policy is a tangled mess of federal and state programs, mostly well intentioned but often contradictory or even counterproductive.
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