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The "Congressional" Health Care Plan
Submitted by John R. Graham on 3.31.2009
With the highly publicized White House Forum on Health Reform now in the rearview mirror, President Obama has taken his show on the road. The administration is in the midst of holding five other such forums across the country. These gatherings are intended to set the stage for congressional action later in the year.
FDA is Overfunded, Overstaffed, and Costs Lives According to New Pacific Research Institute Report
Submitted on 3.20.2009
San Francisco (March 20, 2009) -- A new research report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) reviews three decades of the Food and Drug Administration’s performance and concludes that the agency is overfunded, overstaffed, and denies hundreds of thousands of Americans timely access to new medicines.
The Myth of the 46 Million
Submitted by Philip Klein on 3.20.2009
"Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now," President Obama said at this month's White House health care summit, "all it takes is one stroke of bad luck -- an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job -- to become one of the nearly 46 million uninsured…"
When America becomes Obamaland
Submitted by Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor on 3.19.2009
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished.
Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Submitted by Rebecca Adams, CQ Staff on 3.17.2009
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at the hearing on affordable health care, the two parties outlined sharp differences that are unlikely to be resolved before the full panel considers legislation to overhaul health care.
Top Ten Myths of American Health Care - Speech at the John Locke Foundation
Submitted on 3.16.2009
Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, talks about her book The Top 10 Myths of American Health Care, comparative effectiveness research, and the new administrations proposals for health care reform.
Universal Choice Achieves Universal Coverage
Submitted by Marguerite Higgins on 3.16.2009
Health-care policy doyenne Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, lived under the Canadian health care system — before moving to the United States in 1991 and becoming a citizen in 2006 — and she’s not excited about America’s health system heading in the same direction.
Obama’s blurred health care vision
Submitted by John R. Graham on 3.14.2009
Recently, President Barack Obama signed a measure to throw another four million children on the mercy of government-rationed health care. At the bill-signing ceremony, he described the new law as a “down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.”
State-run health care advocates try again
Submitted on 3.13.2009
Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto is all that saved Californians from suffering government-run universal health care. He properly complained it looked too much like socialized medicine. A similar proposal has been introduced again in the Legislature. If it passes, would the governor still disapprove? Or will health care be the next free-market principle Mr. Schwarzenegger sheds on his steady march leftward?
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide
Submitted on 3.12.2009
President and CEO, Sally C. Pipes, was invited to talk about the findings in her book "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide" at the Heritage Foundation.
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