A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage the program, and deliver its benefits, free from all the intrusive regulation that Washington imposes. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn’t get the dollars to poor people in forms that they can best use. Dollars are laundered through healthcare benefits that people may not need. It also means propping up a lot of healthcare interests rather than individual Americans. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real choice of the health benefits they want. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
The overly engineered, overly regulated market that Obamacare created resulted in restrictive health care plans that provide little choice, and coverage that is far too costly for what the plans offer. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
If drug development becomes the domain of government researchers, it’s a sure bet that political lobbying will eventually trump scientific promise and commercial viability when it comes to investment decisions. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
When I was a medical student, a pulmonary professor of mine cajoled me into joining a clinical trial that she was running. The general aim of the tests was to determine whether prolonged periods of short and shallow breathing would cause a person’s lungs to go into spasm. It turns out, as I can attest, that they do. Scott Gottlieb Read Quote
