Insight to Action

What should be done to help those in a free society who are unable to afford the health care they need? No one wants their neighbor dying on the street because they lost everything paying for needed treatments, while at the same time, government programs have shown themselves to be inefficient in providing for those truly in need. In this episode of Insight to Action, I talk to Dea

Imagine the worst case scenario – you’ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel – an experimental treatment giving patients in Europe hope. Now imagine that light extinguished as the FDA informs you that despite the deadly consequences, they will not permit you to try it. In this Insight to Action, Dean Clancy joins us to t

If you go in to get a broken leg set, how much is it going to cost you? Have you ever wondered why you can’t know that before you go to the hospital or to the doctor’s office? And would it shock you to know that even they don’t know what it’s going to cost? In this Insight to Action, Dean Clancy and I discuss the Personal Option’s belief that we deserve to know health car

Many Americans can’t see the doctor of their choice. Why not? What barriers are keeping them from it? In this Insight to Action, I talk with Dean Clancy, a Senior Policy Fellow on Health Care with Americans for Prosperity. We discuss why we believe all Americans deserve to see the doctor of their choice, conveniently and affordably. Dean explains why that isn’t the case now and

The world is watching as the Taliban retakes Afghanistan. In America, opinions on who is to blame and what should have been done are being shared everywhere. In this Insight to Action, I talk with John Byrnes and Russ Duerstine, both with Concerned Veterans for America. They explain why this all happened, the reality of the situation in Afghanistan, and why veterans who served ther

We hear the warnings that leaving will create a vacuum, a vacuum that will be filled with enemies of America who will use their new power to plan and execute plots against the United States. The only way to prevent that from happening, we’re told, is to prevent our enemies from having a safe haven. But is this true? I’m Duane Lester and in this episode of Insight to Action, I s

Why are prescription drugs so expensive in America, but so affordable in Canada? Is Big Pharma gaming the system or are there other barriers impacting the market that force prices to the moon? Maybe it's both. In this Insight to Action, Dean Clancy, Senior Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, explains why things are the way they are and how we can create a system that provide

Part of Americans for Prosperity’s vision for health care is that We believe that all Americans deserve good insurance at an affordable price. But what does that even mean? What is “good insurance?” and how do we determine what an affordable price is for more than 350 million people? In this Insight to Action, Dean Clancy once again joins us to talk about A Personal Option. W

You hear a lot of chatter about Medicare for All, but what exactly do proponents of that plan want? What is the plan? Are we looking at just expanding the current program, or is this something entirely new? In this Insight to Action, Charlie Katabi, Americans for Prosperity’s Health Policy Analyst, explains not only what this would look like, but how it could make things a great

There are new stories of Veterans Administration cooking the books. Instead of taking care of veterans who need health care, the VA seems to once again be covering up long wait times and possible refusals to allow vets to get care in the community. In this Insight to Action, Darin Selnick and John Byrnes of Concerned Veterans for America, explain what they are seeing and what can b