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Curing Medicaid’s Cold: Unwinding Pandemic Expansion Before Federal Funds End
Joe Selvaggi talks with healthcare policy expert Dr. Brian Blase about Medicaid expansion during the COVID-19 healthcare emergency and how states can efficiently reexamine eligibility criteria so as to protect the vulnerable before federal support expires.
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Opinion: Drug patents aren’t a ‘necessary evil.’ They save lives.
Drug patents are one of the most important public policy innovations in all of human history, and a boon to patients awaiting cures. Inventions only come when inventors are rewarded, not punished. Patents are not a “necessary evil.”