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Ryan Long describes how the hospital lobby changed around 2010. Prior to then it defended the 340B program as helping poor people afford medicine. Since then, it’s billed as a needed subsidy to hospitals. In 2010 - $2B in drug discounts/ Now - $66B in discounts...largely to…
@RealJoeGrogan sits down with @mfcannon of @CatoInstitute — a four-time @washingtonian “Most Influential” — to unpack how government distorts health care prices, how Medicare got broken, and what real reform could look like.
America’s healthcare crisis didn’t just happen — it was built. @mfcannon breaks it down for @RealJoeGrogan — and offers a way out.
@PeterPitts tells @realjoegrogan why updating drug labels for obese patients could be an early win for the FDA under @MartyMakary—one that reflects best practice and could save lives
MUST WATCH: “What 340B has become is less about medicine and more about a way for health systems… to profit.” - Massachusetts HHS Secretary In Oklahoma @govstitt has taken a bold step in vetoing an expansion of this wasteful program.…
🚨 .@RepJamesFrank hits it head on. The difference between for-profit and non-profit hospitals is that one doesn't pay a lot of taxes .... and at the same time takes in $$$ from 340B. x.com/RealBPhil/stat…
Non-profit hospitals aren't holding up their end of the bargain. @RepJamesFrank asks the critical question of the Texas Hospital Association: "What is it that y'all are doing that for-profit hospitals aren't doing, other than not paying a lot of taxes?"
As President Trump ushers in an American Golden Age, he is eager for bold proposals. Absent big ideas and big asks, the biotech industry will miss out while China takes the global lead. Read more from @RealJoeGrogan: statnews.com/2025/05/07/tru…
.@RealJoeGrogan describes how nonprofit hospitals are abusing their nonprofit status and a loophole in the 340B program to turn services intended to help the poor into cash-cow profit centers. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…
“Questions mount over 340B federal drug discount program” As states like Tennessee consider the future of the 340B program, experts are raising concerns about lack of transparency, higher costs, and major unintended consequences.
The 340B program was initially designed to apply to around 90 hospitals. Now some 29,000 entities qualify for this program, largely because Obamacare expanded Medicaid rolls dramatically. Meanwhile costs for patients haven’t gone down.
.@Paragon_Inst 's Ryan Long describes on @DCEKGpodcast why the government doesn’t care about 340B abuses BUT SHOULD. The incentives created by 340B encourage hospitals to give patients the most expensive drugs they can. Why? Because that’s how they make the most money.
The IRA will have enormous negative impacts on the development of cancer treatments. @Paragon_Inst 's Ryan Long describes how the IRA makes expensive drug trials on new indications (other cancers a drug might treat) a losing proposition for drug companies. Full podcast:…
@Paragon_Inst’s Ryan Long joins @realjoegrogan to expose how hospitals are gaming the 340B program—meant for the poor—to boost profits. Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rya…
This week, @RealJoeGrogan chats with @brian_blase of @Paragon_Inst about the Medicaid crisis: money laundering, funding inequities, and why reforms are essential to protect vulnerable populations and taxpayers. Full episode out now: