The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a hearing June 10 entitled “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency.” While the committee overall agreed that healthcare costs are too high and underscored...
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Fight Over Expiration of PPACA-Enhanced Premiums, Medicaid Cuts Key Factors in Government Shutdown
The federal government shut down after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass funding for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26), starting Oct. 1 at midnight. The House-passed continuing resolution funding the government until Nov. 21 was voted down in the Senate, 55-45....
Spine Pain Patients Who See Chiropractors First Need Fewer Healthcare Services: Study
By Zachary Cupler, DC, Alyssa Troutner, DC, Clinton Daniels, DC Most chiropractors are very familiar with the fact that spine pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide.1 Not surprisingly, neck and low back pain care cost billions of dollars...
House Takes Steps to Get Truer Accuracy in Healthcare Estimates
Legislation is aimed at nonpartisan agency to account for multi-year, downstream effects. On March 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 766, a bipartisan bill that will allow the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze and create budgetary savings...
What Does Research Reveal About Chiropractic Costs?
Those who have listened to me speak about the evolution of chiropractic research over the past 30 years may have already heard me talk about the questions that I am asked most frequently by policy makers regarding what we do...
