Public Health

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, the Patient | Patients First, not last (Pt V)

The patients-first focus of the Great Healthcare Plan started under the first Trump Administration. Patients-first policymakers required hospitals and health plans to publish negotiated rates, out-of-pocket estimates, and other key cost information in both machine-readable and consumer-friendly formats. Patients and their clinicians were given practical tools to compare options before care is delivered, not after the bill arrives.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, The Patient | One Size Fits Nobody (Pt III)

It’s Your MONEY: Making Your Health Dollar Work For You, The Patient | Paying People, Not Plans (Pt II)

Any reforms to the health insurance system must focus on driving increased value for patients. Increased value does not solely mean increased costs or more complicated care; instead, it is about the overall value of the health plan as determined by patients.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, the Patient | Introduction (Part I)

By the end of 2025, American patients are estimated to individually have paid $16,570 in total medical expenses. This is an all-time high and is only predicted to grow: $18,247 in 2027 and $24,200 by the end of 2033 (Keehan et al., 2025). Healthcare spending is also growing faster than America’s gross domestic product, which means health costs will take an ever-larger share of Americans’ paychecks. What is driving this increase?

AFPI Releases New Report on Benefits of DGAs for Health & Farmers

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new Issue Brief highlighting the impact of the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Titled “Eat Real Food: How the Dietary Guidelines Help Make Americans Healthy,” the report details how the Trump Administration’s nutrition reset is aligning more than two billion taxpayer-funded meals annually with gold-standard nutritional science, emphasizing real, nutrient-dense foods like high-quality protein, healthy fats, whole milk, fruits, and vegetables.