…(the measure the Times chose to use) relatively constant: The Affordable Care Act and a 2011 Congressional budget act mandated reduced payments to medical providers (hospitals and physicians); Doctors, nurses…

…in President Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act. The Biden administration’s Inflation Control Act, which included for the first time limits on some drug prices including some used in hospitals, pushed…

…calls for adjustments in Congress. Creation of the 340B Program In 1992, Congress passed the Public Health Service Act. Contained within this act is Section 340B, which established a program…

…statement that the regulations are based on emissions reduction technologies that have not been meaningfully deployed in the real world, exceed the EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act, and…

…pouring over reviews conducted by outside evaluators hired by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS’ beancounters wanted to know whether government’s paying for the actual cost of care…

…attractive, the voter has no assurance that the candidate will actually pursue these policies in office.  Furthermore, voters tend to believe that good outcomes are achievable if politicians are well-motivated…

…too: it was before the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act with which Congress tried to make the racial equality promised in the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment…

…to New York to rally outside the headquarters of KKR and Apollo and gotten arrested outside BlackRock; testified at congressional hearings and galvanized around a robust law, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, that would actually target…

…because it is (metaphorically) a pork barrel. Notably the Inflation Reduction Act is an act while carbon taxes remain a proposal supported by activists and economists. The unappealing aspect of…

I did some rewriting on this particular commentary and added two charts from another commentary (at the bottom). The point being to give graphical depiction of the impact of the…