Over the next 75 years, US taxpayers face over $73 trillion in long‐term unfunded obligations. What’s more, this unfunded obligation is entirely driven by only two federal government programs: Medicare and Social Security.

The federal government’s design of the DSH program is outdated and leaves ample room for fraud. To alleviate this, the federal government should recalculate state‐level DSH allocations, limit states’ usage of abusive hospital/provider taxes, and crack down on existing hospital/provider tax loopholes.

Federal spending and deficits are at dangerously high levels, and interest costs on government borrowing are soaring. If spending is not restrained, we may face an economic crisis. Congress should cut spending, and one good reform target is the huge and fast‐growing Medicaid program.

The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual report of options to reduce the budget deficit.

While the Biden administration’s proposed spending plan is being reduced from the initial—enormous—figure of $3.5 trillion, we could still be facing $1.75 trillion in new spending.

The Democrats’ “Build Back Better” proposals for childcare represent a disastrous step in the ongoing government takeover of the sector - raising care costs, creating dependence, and instilling incentives against work and earning more income along the way.

They say journalism is the first rough draft of history.

President Trump’s slew of last-minute pardons and commutations included several men whom federal courts found guilty of defrauding Medicare or Medicaid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that it “has a unique mission—to save lives by deploying effective, proven strategies to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to disease outbreaks at their source.”

The Medicare program is a bonanza of centralized economic planning, special-interest lobbying, pricing errors, perverse incentives, low-quality care, improper payments, and fraud.