Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Health Care

Heritage Foundation: COVID-19 was almost certainly spawned in a lab in Wuhan

(p.768): In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost certainly spawned in a CCP [Chinese Communist Party] biological weapons lab in Wuhan, China, global supply chains have been under significant pressures from lockdown policies, energy price shocks, and other disruptions, including labor market disruptions. At the height of the pandemic, the rising geopolitical risk associated with globalized supply chains was underscored when Communist China, which controls much of the world's pharmaceutical production and supply, threatened to plunge America "into a mighty sea of coronavirus" through pharmaceutical export controls if American politicians dared to investigate what happened at the Wuhan lab.

Bernie Sanders: Vermont forced to repeal single-payer healthcare system

Heritage Foundation: Employer-based health insurance induces overconsumption

America's broken insurance system, run largely through confusing provider networks and third-party payers (employers), induces overconsumption of health care, limits consumer shopping, and hides true costs from patients. The federal government should focus reform on reducing burdens of regulatory compliance, unleashing innovation in health care delivery, ceasing interference in the daily lives of patients and providers, allowing alternative insurance coverage options, and returning control of health care dollars to patients making decisions with their providers about their health care treatments and services.

Heritage Foundation: Reduce Medicare regulatory burdens on doctors

Medicare. Medicare should be reformed according to four goals and principles:
• Increase Medicare beneficiaries' control of their health care. Patients are best positioned to determine the value of health care services, working with their health care providers. They also benefit from increased choice of doctors, hospitals, and insurance plans.
• Reduce regulatory burdens on doctors. Doctors must be free to focus on treating patients first, not entering codes on computers, and should not be tempted to change their medical judgment based on arbitrary or illogical reimbursement incentives.
• Ensure sustainability and value for beneficiaries and taxpayers. Prices are best for patients when determined by economic value rather than political power and when they are known in advance of the receipt of services.
• Reduce waste, fraud, and abuse, including through the use of artificial intelligence for their detection.

Heritage Foundation: Separate ObamaCare subsidies from private insurance market

On the Affordable Care Act and Private Health Insurance:
• Remove barriers to direct primary care. DPC is an innovative health care delivery model in which doctors contract directly with patients for their care on a subscription basis regardless of how or where the care is provided.
• Revisit the No Surprises Act on surprise medical billing.
• Facilitate the development of shared savings and reference pricing plan options.
• Separate the subsidized ACA exchange market from the non-subsidized insurance market. The ACA has made insurance more expensive and less competitive, and the ACA subsidy scheme simply masks these impacts. To make health insurance coverage more affordable for those who are without government subsidies, [the next Administration] should develop a plan to separate the non-subsidized insurance market from the subsidized market, giving the non-subsidized market regulatory relief from the costly ACA regulatory mandates.
• Strengthen hospital price transparency.