Denmark’s socialized health care system is supplemented by an innovative, consumer-driven approach to prescription drug prices.
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
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
New legislation would allow states and school districts to provide funding directly to parents to help students
The Biden administration fulfilled a promise to extend health insurance coverage to family members of individuals offered expensive health insurance through an employer. Despite its benefits the proposed rule comes with several potential problems.
Biden’s proposed fix to the family glitch may work in the short term, but lawmaking through executive order and regulatory interpretation is vulnerable to policy reversals in subsequent administrations