Caring for veterans in the VCCP is cheaper on a per-patient basis than it is in the VA and rising VA costs are not the result of the VCCP
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
While reducing wait times and increasing access to health care for many veterans are vast improvements, there is more that can be done to provide veterans with the health care choices they deserve
For the third straight year, Switzerland’s system of universal private health insurance took the top spot.
Denmark’s socialized health care system is supplemented by an innovative, consumer-driven approach to prescription drug prices.
The dimensions, elements, & measures we used to rank 32 high-income national healthcare systems.
Not all R&D spending by the pharmaceutical industry is equally productive. Small companies develop most new medicines.
The percentage of children who could not perform basic skills grew after two years of school closures during the pandemic, confirming our worst fears
The test scores of children from lower-income households declined more than their peers