Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Fauci Was Writing While America Lived in Fear
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. This episode was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Wednesday at a Senate hearing, where he pleaded… -
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Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’
The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before… -
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Fauci May Have Pleaded the 5th, but the GOP Won’t Stop Until It Has the Truth on COVID-19
Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., and the Senate Homeland Security Committee put Dr. Anthony Fauci on center stage Wednesday morning. Republican senators hit him with three hours of questioning about his alleged part in the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 virus. Over 100 times, Fauci stayed silent, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republican committee members claimed… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Fauci’s Private Diary Contradicts His Public Claims
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This video was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from the Senate Oversight and Homeland Security committees…. -
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Christian PA Fired Over Transgender Referrals, Pronouns Wins $410K Settlement as Hospital Adopts New Policy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Christian physician assistant fired after refusing to participate in transgender procedures and use preferred pronouns has reached a settlement with the University of Michigan Health-West, which agreed to adopt new religious freedom protections for employees and pay $410,000. “All I wanted to do was provide the best care possible to… -
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How Are Detransitioners Faring in Medical Malpractice Cases Across the Country?
Many of those who underwent experimental medical “treatments” to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex later reject their transgender identities, and some of these detransitioners are now suing for medical malpractice. Josh Payne, founding partner of the law firm Campbell Miller Payne, which exists to represent these detransitioners, briefed the Daily Signal… -
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The Trump Administration’s Best Healthcare Idea Isn’t the One Getting Attention
One reason pharmaceuticals cost so much: The Food and Drug Administration’s approval process takes up to 12 years to bring a new drug to market. The Trump administration has launched Operation Trialblazer to shorten that timeline. It’s one of Trump’s best healthcare proposals so far, one that reduces the government’s footprint in U.S. healthcare. It is a welcome departure from some of the Trump… -
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Trump’s VA Reforms Are Working. Now Finish the Job.
Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has continued advancing reforms that have strengthened performance across the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA has reduced the disability claims backlog by roughly 70%, opened 35 new health care facilities, completed more than 82 million appointments in fiscal year 2025, and permanently housed more than… -
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Hospital Lobby Takes Hit After Senate Panel Passes Price Transparency Bill
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions passed legislation on Wednesday to require drug providers, hospitals, and insurers to clearly disclose to patients the cost of their products. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., would also require hospitals to compile and make public the costs of their products and services on… -
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Amy Acton’s Past COVID-19 Role May Come Back to Haunt Her
As Ohioans begin thinking about who they want to serve as the state’s next governor, statements Dr. Amy Acton made as Ohio’s former health director could come back to haunt her. Before running as the Democrat nominee for governor, Acton led the Ohio Department of Health under Gov. Mike DeWine from 2019 to 2020. Her… -
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Don’t Export Europe’s Health Care Failures to American States
The World Cup arrived. With it came millions of visitors from across the globe descending on American cities. They come for the soccer, sure. But while here, they discover something more—the kind of abundance that is easy to take for granted if you were born here. Walk through any American host city, and you’ll see… -
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To Fix Health Care We Need Prices, Not Price Controls
You can’t have a market without prices, which is a major reason why health care is such a mess. Nobody knows what anything costs, even though the vast majority of medical services are not emergencies. In President Donald Trump’s first term, he took this problem on by mandating that hospitals that participate in Medicare and… -
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Biden Turned Patient Protection Into Slush Fund, and Trump Is Doing Something About It
President Donald Trump signed the No Surprises Act in 2020 to stop patients from getting ambushed by medical bills they never agreed to pay. Under the Biden administration, it became one of the most lucrative slush funds for providers who use a loophole in the law to overbill for procedures and drive-up costs for all… -
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MAHA Win in Arkansas: ‘Food, Not Junk’ for Food Stamps
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is celebrating a state ban on food stamps being used on candy and soda as part of the Make America Healthy Again effort, despite lawsuits against similar waivers. “Arkansas is getting soft drinks and candy OFF food stamps starting July 1 – because taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be wasted on unhealthy junk,” Sanders said on X. Health and Human… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Committee Announces Fraud Investigation Into Autism Therapy Firm
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is investigating a Brooklyn-based autism therapy provider over allegations of excessive billing practices that may be driving up health care costs for workers and employers. Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Rep. Rick Allen, R-Ga., requested extensive records from The Perfect Child LLC,… -
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US Death Rate Falls to Record Low
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The death rate in the U.S. declined to a new record low in 2025, according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out Thursday. The CDC reported that 3,094,593 total deaths occurred in the U.S. in 2025. The nation’s overall death rate was 689.2 per 100,000 people, a 4.6% decrease from… -
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My Upset Primary Victory Shows Voters Are Hungry for Health Care Solutions
Last week, the Trump administration announced that it’s ramping up enforcement of its hospital price transparency rule to overcome widespread noncompliance. “Our message to hospitals is simple: Post your real prices,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Come into compliance immediately or prepare for serious consequences.” Actual, upfront prices, as President… -
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Dr. Oz Huddles With House Republicans Crafting Anti-Fraud Reconciliation Bill
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, huddled with House Republicans on Wednesday to discuss anti-fraud measures, as House leadership seeks to pass a fraud-focused party-line budget bill. On Wednesday morning, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters Oz was coming to meet with a group of House Republicans… -
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New Texas Clinic Flips the Left’s Gender Narrative on Its Head
People who have been hoodwinked by transgender ideology and the medical establishment telling them to physically damage their own bodies in pursuit of a false identity may have a strong new remedy. The Department of Justice and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week a seismic shift in medicine. For the first time, a… -
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‘How Many Times Were We Lied To?’ Fauci & Top Officials Under Fire Over COVID-19 Claims
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: OK, Victor, just to torture people further with the sound of my voice, here’s the headline: CIA…