Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Debate: Is the Affordable Care Act Bad for America? with Sally Pipes
UVA Miller Center 2014 National Debate Series: Beyond Gridlock Affordable Care Act: Why Are So Many People Against It? Moderator Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Panelists: Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor, The New Republic Sally C. Pipes, CEO & President, Pacific Research Institute Avik Roy, Senior Fellow Healthcare, Manhattan ...
Business & Economics
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to Contrarian readers. Those readers know that this column finds little merit in most government policies on women’s issues or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true ...
Commentary
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Commentary
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
Commentary
Prop. 209 back in spotlight
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to those who find little merit in most government policies on women’s or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true in, of all places, California. Officials in ...
Commentary
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
Commentary
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Business & Economics
Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative
Vol. 14 No. 08, September 7, 2010 Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative By Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO It’s been a challenging summer for the Women’s Movement. The recent publication of two “time use surveys” in the United States and Europe contradicts the preferred feminist narrative about the lives ...
Commentary
Mass. mess: ObamaCare’s ugly future
Massachusetts’ struggle to make “universal health insurance” work continues to be an excellent peek at what the entire nation faces when ObamaCare kicks in — and the picture remains ugly. Gov. Deval Patrick has just reached a truce with three of the four top insurers in the state, compromising on ...
Commentary
Repeal the Individual Mandate of Obamacare
Obamacare is chock full of unpopular policies. But few have attracted as much widespread animosity as the “individual mandate,” which requires all adults to purchase health insurance or pay a fine. The most recent Rasmussen poll puts opposition to the mandate at 54 percent of likely voters – including 41 ...
Debate: Is the Affordable Care Act Bad for America? with Sally Pipes
UVA Miller Center 2014 National Debate Series: Beyond Gridlock Affordable Care Act: Why Are So Many People Against It? Moderator Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Panelists: Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor, The New Republic Sally C. Pipes, CEO & President, Pacific Research Institute Avik Roy, Senior Fellow Healthcare, Manhattan ...
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to Contrarian readers. Those readers know that this column finds little merit in most government policies on women’s issues or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true ...
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
Prop. 209 back in spotlight
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to those who find little merit in most government policies on women’s or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true in, of all places, California. Officials in ...
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative
Vol. 14 No. 08, September 7, 2010 Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative By Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO It’s been a challenging summer for the Women’s Movement. The recent publication of two “time use surveys” in the United States and Europe contradicts the preferred feminist narrative about the lives ...
Mass. mess: ObamaCare’s ugly future
Massachusetts’ struggle to make “universal health insurance” work continues to be an excellent peek at what the entire nation faces when ObamaCare kicks in — and the picture remains ugly. Gov. Deval Patrick has just reached a truce with three of the four top insurers in the state, compromising on ...
Repeal the Individual Mandate of Obamacare
Obamacare is chock full of unpopular policies. But few have attracted as much widespread animosity as the “individual mandate,” which requires all adults to purchase health insurance or pay a fine. The most recent Rasmussen poll puts opposition to the mandate at 54 percent of likely voters – including 41 ...
