Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Obama’s Summit Challenge
The discussion will focus around four main themes: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit, and increasing coverage. The president has stated many times that he is looking for bipartisan support for health-care reform. On Monday, he released his eleven-page blueprint for reform that is based, for the most part, ...
Commentary
Health Care Debate Criminals
Millions can apparently afford health insurance but for whatever reason choose to not buy it. In 2007, an estimated 17.6 million of the uninsured made more than $50,000 per year, and more than 9 million of those made more than $75,000. According to researcher and author Sally Pipes, 38 percent ...
Commentary
Starting Over on Health Reform
President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
Commentary
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
Commentary
Meeting In The Middle
Forbes, February 4, 2010 Last week President Obama sparred with House Republicans in an unprecedented debate that highlighted the two parties’ differences on the issues, particularly health reform. The president signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like ...
Business & Economics
Why the Market and Old-fashioned Meritocracy are Better for Women than Big Government
By some counts women are now more than half of the workforce in America and other affluent countries. As we observed last month, the militant sages assembled from the liberal Center for American Progress for the Shriver Report, believe this calls for stepped-up deployment by Big Brother and the Nanny ...
Commentary
Government binges on anti-obesity campaigns
San Francisco Examiner, January 21, 2010 Many Americans have made a resolution to lose weight in the new year. Thats admirable. Whats not so admirable is the recent barrage of efforts advanced by government officials to help them slim down by taxing or even outlawing foods deemed unhealthy. San Francisco ...
Commentary
Why Dems’ Health Reform Hopes Are ‘Hanging by a Thread’
Townhall.com, January 18, 2009 As the New Year unfolds and congressional Democrats meet with the President behind closed doors trying to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions, they also appear to have lost a good deal of the optimism they had just a few weeks ago about ...
Commentary
No cost control here
National Journal – Health Care, January 11, 2010 The idea that the massive new taxes raised in either House or Senate health care bills are in service of overall cost control is just one of the great many collective fictions proponents of doing something on health care have perpetuated. The ...
Obama’s Summit Challenge
The discussion will focus around four main themes: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit, and increasing coverage. The president has stated many times that he is looking for bipartisan support for health-care reform. On Monday, he released his eleven-page blueprint for reform that is based, for the most part, ...
Health Care Debate Criminals
Millions can apparently afford health insurance but for whatever reason choose to not buy it. In 2007, an estimated 17.6 million of the uninsured made more than $50,000 per year, and more than 9 million of those made more than $75,000. According to researcher and author Sally Pipes, 38 percent ...
Starting Over on Health Reform
President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
Meeting In The Middle
Forbes, February 4, 2010 Last week President Obama sparred with House Republicans in an unprecedented debate that highlighted the two parties’ differences on the issues, particularly health reform. The president signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like ...
Why the Market and Old-fashioned Meritocracy are Better for Women than Big Government
By some counts women are now more than half of the workforce in America and other affluent countries. As we observed last month, the militant sages assembled from the liberal Center for American Progress for the Shriver Report, believe this calls for stepped-up deployment by Big Brother and the Nanny ...
Government binges on anti-obesity campaigns
San Francisco Examiner, January 21, 2010 Many Americans have made a resolution to lose weight in the new year. Thats admirable. Whats not so admirable is the recent barrage of efforts advanced by government officials to help them slim down by taxing or even outlawing foods deemed unhealthy. San Francisco ...
Why Dems’ Health Reform Hopes Are ‘Hanging by a Thread’
Townhall.com, January 18, 2009 As the New Year unfolds and congressional Democrats meet with the President behind closed doors trying to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions, they also appear to have lost a good deal of the optimism they had just a few weeks ago about ...
No cost control here
National Journal – Health Care, January 11, 2010 The idea that the massive new taxes raised in either House or Senate health care bills are in service of overall cost control is just one of the great many collective fictions proponents of doing something on health care have perpetuated. The ...
