Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The overly engineered, overly regulated market that Obamacare created resulted in restrictive health care plans that provide little choice, and coverage that… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In countries such as France and Germany, layers of bureaucracy like health boards have been specifically engineered to delay the adoption of… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The fact is that Medicaid doesn't even serve well the medical needs of people who should be its principal focus - Americans… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of the untold elements of the rapid decay underway in the Obamacare exchanges is the massive shift toward the Medicaid managed… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Obamacare's costly regulations mean that the mix of people who sign up are tending to be older and sicker. Many young and… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Before Obamacare, insurance networks typically covered an entire state. Under Obamacare, insurers are able to bid to offer coverage mostly on a… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Under Obamacare, doctors have been strained by costly new regulations, intricate payment 'reforms' that tie their Medicare reimbursement to complex federal reporting… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One option is to run Medicaid like a health program - rather than an exercise in political morals - and let states… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A major part of the conservative plans to reform Medicaid turn on the assumption that states will be better able to manage… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
While faulty information from a digital health tool can influence people to make bad decisions, the risks are far lower than those… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Zika is an addressable threat. While it falls outside of the regular routine of public health preparedness, we shouldn't be scrambling for… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn't a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It's hollow coverage. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Reformers in Washington need to do a better job of explaining how market-based alternatives to ObamaCare are a better outcome for the… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A true legislative alternative to ObamaCare would support physician ownership of independent medical practices, and preserve local competition between doctors and choice… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
America tolerates a heavy toll from the flu on health and productivity. But if Covid becomes a twin risk, the heath-care system… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In short order, Obamacare is evolving into a Medicaid marketplace. Not only in terms of the design and quality of the narrow-network… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Health-assessment software such as CareEvolution's 'Safer Covid' tool can combine multiple health factors to evaluate a person's total risk of contracting Covid… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The period of time between the uncovering of some fundamental scientific finding that underpinned a medical advance, and the realization of the… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
What makes the EpiPen unique is its delivery vehicle - an auto-injector that's packaged in a convenient, pen-like device. The product's key attribute is… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
Once an effective drug is approved to treat a deadly condition, introducing a second drug to treat the same disease can be hard. It's… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to everyone. Modeled… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
There are two main types of immunity to an infection. Innate immunity comes from circulating cells that attack any invader the body views as… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
A seductive technology that works like a dream and improves lives will set off a consumer clamor, whether the new tool is an iPhone… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery. — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system to align… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
While faulty information from a digital health tool can influence people to make bad decisions, the risks are far lower than those posed by… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share
