New aid from Congress should fund education savings accounts for vulnerable and low-income children.
Health Care
Americans deserve a health care system that provides universal—and universally affordable—coverage for today’s Americans, and a fiscally sustainable system for the generations to come. All Americans should have the freedom to choose among a wide variety of plans that suit their needs. Taxpayer-funded subsidies should be reserved for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable—not the wealthy. Enabling competition and curtailing the power of health care monopolies will lower patients’ costs and increase innovation in patient care.
All Health Care
Federal funding meant to help reopen schools is being misused.
As of mid-October, 50 of the nation’s 120 largest school districts remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new bill introduced in Congress would expand health insurance coverage while reducing costs and increasing innovation.
Younger Americans appear to have a significantly lower chance of dying from COVID-19 than they do of more common infectious diseases.
Katrina Bilella lost a job and a home, thanks to coronavirus lockdowns and eviction bans.
Congress and federal regulators have obstructed biosimilar competition, increasing patient costs by over $30 billion.
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