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A Cancer 'Moonshot' Needs Big Data

<p><strong>Analyzing vast genetic and clinical data from hospitals and doctors would lead to revolutionary advances.</strong></p>

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Streamlining Medicine and Saving Lives

<p><strong>The Senate has a chance to cut regulation and promote medical innovation.</strong></p>

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Want to Really Speed up Cancer Research? Start Sharing More Data.

<p>Napster founder and Facebook investor <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/13/sean-parker-cancer-questions/" target="_blank">Sean Parker</a> recently <a...

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For Medical Miracles, Empower Drug Companies - Don't Vilify Them

<p dir="ltr">"We can do virtually anything," Vice President <span data-behavior="rolloverpeople"><a data-nid="188332" href="http://thehill.com/people/joe-biden">Joe...

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Former Senator Tom Coburn Joins Manhattan Institute as Senior Fellow

<p><strong>Coburn to continue work toward delivering new cures  and technologies to patients</strong></p>

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The Promise of President Trump: Tom Coburn

<p itemprop="description">‘Fixing what is broken in Washington is not hard if your own political future is not your primary concern.’</p>

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Let States Lead on Obamacare

<p>Trump’s team has the tools to spark a 50-state health care revolution.</p>

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Back to the Drawing Board on Health Care

Republicans need to focus on the industry’s biggest problem: its lack of competition and transparency. Back to the Drawing Board on Health Care

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MI Responds: Scott Gottlieb Confirmed as FDA Commissioner

<p>I applaud both President Trump and the U.S. Senate on the confirmation of Dr. Scott Gottlieb as FDA Commissioner. At a time of both unprecedented scientific opportunity and rapidly evolving...

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The Best Deal for American Patients Is Faster Innovation, and Smarter...

<p>Democrats have made drug prices a pillar of their “Better Deal” for the American people. But as has become routine of the party’s leadership under Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, their plan...

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Eliminate Government Incentives to Overprescribe Opioids

<p>Government regulations and industry practices have played a large part in creating the crisis.</p>

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MI Responds: Ohio Votes Down Government-Mandated Drug Prices

<p>By voting “no” on Issue 2, the people of Ohio have sent a clear and powerful message – lower drug prices can’t be mandated by government fiat.

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Get Government Out and Let Markets Work in Health Care

<p>Ask the average American what he thinks about health care costs, and he’ll tell you a few things.

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Making Medicine Affordable Is Simple

<p><strong>Many of the recommendations offered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aim at increasing competition by regulating pharmaceutical companies even...

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Free Market, Better Medicine

<p><strong>The solution to our drug pricing problem involves less government, more transparency.</strong></p>

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Bolton Right Choice on National Security

<p>The president’s decision to appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser reflects an understanding of the critical lessons of history, and the Bolton designation will greatly reduce...

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Shop Around for Surgery? Colorado May Soon Encourage It

<p>Mandating that medical providers post prices would create competition and lower costs all around.</p>

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We Should Pay Teachers Better, but Tax Increases Without Oversight Won't Work

<p>I have read with interest and reflection the <a...

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Price Transparency Key to Saving Medicare and Lowering the Debt

<p>Entitlement spending grabbed headlines last week, with the news that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent by 2026, three years earlier than previously projected.

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Trump Needs a Bridge to Nowhere Moment on Spending

<p><strong>Voters want to see fiscal sanity in Washington. Trump should use every tool at his disposal – from Twitter to rescissions – to change the trajectory on...

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Oklahoma Can Have Affordable Insurance

<p>For the past two years, anyone shopping on Oklahoma's health insurance exchange has come face to face with the stark reality of Obamacare.

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Cut Pharmaceutical Costs with a Tried-and-True Approach: The Free Market

<p>Whenever the spotlight falls on an expensive drug, some policymakers will point to drug re-importation as a potential solution: If a drug is too expensive here, let patients import them from...

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Republican Indifference on Deficits is Empowering the Socialists

<p>They say money doesn’t grow on trees but many of today’s leading progressives, including candidates for president, may beg to differ.

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No, Transparency Will Not Cause Health Care Prices to Rise

<p>On June 24, former Oklahoma Rep. Ernest Istook, a Republican, challenged the wisdom of an executive order President Trump signed that same day.

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Here's Why Price Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

<p>Democratic <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/2020-campaign" target="_blank">presidential primary candidates</a> are spending a lot of time talking about <a...

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