Center For Health Policy

 

For 14 years, CRI has advocated for advancing healthcare services in Delaware on a more free-market basis. Free-market reform would reduce costs by hundreds of millions of dollars a year to taxpayers, medical centers and hospitals, third-party payers, insurers, and individual patients while increasing quality and access to care.

 

The two impediments to the goal are the inaptly named Affordable Care Act and Delaware’s Certificate of Need (CON) legislation. The top priority of the Center for Health Policy is the repeal of Delaware’s Certificate of Need program.

 

CRI has repeatedly presented data to state legislators advocating the elimination of the CON law. Due in great measure to CRI’s efforts, the HRB’s wasteful dysfunction has not gone unnoticed by the Delaware Legislative Review Council. In 2022, CRI will persist in finalizing the Legislature’s “sunsetting” of the CON program and redirecting the HRB to solely serve as an advisory board.

 

The Center will also continue to publish documentation on the unsustainable growth of Delaware’s Medicaid costs within the state’s budget.

 

No Need for a ‘Hospital Review Board’ in Delaware | 5/2/2024

We commend Representative Valerie Longhurst's efforts to rein in hospital costs in Delaware. However, the creation of a "Hospital Review Board" in Substitute 1 for House Bill 350 will not succeed. The fundamental problem of high hospital costs in Delaware is due to a l...

Tragic Incentives and Transgender Medical Care | 10/20/2023

The 2011 burst in transgender medical treatments came shortly after the passage of the Affordable Care Act. This accelerated after passage of a non-discrimination federal Health and Human Services regulation on private insurance in 2016. The US experienced a dramatic increase in transgender medica...

Is ‘Gender Ablation’ Indicated or Ethical as Policy? | 8/28/2023

The United States is experiencing an endemic health crisis. There is a regional outbreak (on both the East and West coasts) of young girls self-identifying as “trans.”   Previously, in 2018, according to the U.S. National Health Interview Survey on sexual orientation, 97.3% ...

Fentanyl Eclipses COVID-19 as a Public Health Crisis | 10/7/2022

As the hysteria wanes from almost three years of COVID-19, and we continue to suffer the collateral damage from the ill-advised lockdown policies, our need for a return to normal is shattered by the harsh data emerging from Fentanyl death statistics.     Nationally, there are now ...

ChristianaCare & Crozer Health Fall Out Explained | 8/30/2022

The second week of August 2022, the planned take-over of the Crozer Health (four hospitals in Delaware County, PA) by ChristianaCare (three hospitals, outpatient & other services in Delaware and Maryland) fell apart. The News Journal asked what happened, but nobod...

Lockdowns Should Never be Allowed Again | 8/18/2022

In the early days of COVID-19, Delaware's Governor John Carney expressed his desire to avoid a legacy of being an example of "What NOT to do." With New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as his guidestar, he proceeded to do just that. Delaware's economy has suffered some sector...

COMMENTARY: Healthcare in Delaware can be improved | 12/12/2021

For multiple decades the people of Delaware have had limited access to healthcare at an expensive cost, with quality outcomes below the national average. According to a 2019 Health Affairs article published by former secretary of health and social services for the state of Delaware,...

Saving Delaware’s Budget from Medicaid | 1/12/2021

To read the abstract, please click the link below.  
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A Proposal for Averting Future Crises in Delaware’s Medicaid Funding | 11/19/2020

To read the full proposal, please click the link below.  
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A Public Service Announcement to the Carney Administration: Open Delaware NOW | 7/9/2020

A lack of any specifics on the Phase 3 opening criteria and guidelines for conducting activities suggests that the Carney team is making them up as they go, just as the CDC was doing in the beginning of the pandemic.   That was acceptable then when little was known about the novel coron...