Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Read the latest about PBMs
It’s Time To End the PBM Shakedown
Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the House and Senate, members of both parties are advancing legislation to check the power of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the self-dealing middlemen in the drug supply chain that inflate Americans’ spending on prescriptions by billions of dollars a year. By shining a light ...
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Another reason why single-payer would be bad for US
Britain Offers a Cautionary Tale for ‘Medicare for All’
King Charles III’s coronation wasn’t the only historic event Great Britain marked this year. The country’s revered National Health Service is celebrating this summer the 75th anniversary of its founding. It’s a birthday Americans should take note of. The NHS has been an inspiration to generations of American leftists, who ...
Commentary
Read latest about affirmative action
Ending medical-school affirmative action will be a plus for patients
The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer. Many medical-school leaders decried the high court’s ruling, claiming the ban will lead to less diversity within their student bodies, a less diverse crop of physicians and worse outcomes ...
Commentary
Cancer Patients Need Private Innovation, Not Gov’t Meddling
President Joe Biden just announced a new effort that he hopes will spur the development of better, more precise cancer surgery technologies. The program is part of his administration’s “Cancer Moonshot,” which aims to halve cancer death rates in the United States by 2047. Ironically, one of the biggest obstacles to achieving ...
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Read the latest on the nation's doctor shortage
Fixing the doctor shortage requires less government, not more
Congress is looking to narrow our nation’s doctor shortage. After introducing legislation that would reform our primary care system, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said last month , “Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be ...
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A bipartisan way to improve health coverage, help small businesses
The House of Representatives recently passed a healthcare reform bill along party lines. All 220 Republicans who were present voted “aye,” while all 209 Democrats sounded a unanimous “nay.” Judging by that roll call, you’d think the bill — the CHOICE Arrangement Act — was full of partisan measures. But ...
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Republican presidential candidates have been silent on healthcare
GOP’s Winning Healthcare Argument Must Be Made Now
The race for the Republican nomination for president is obviously well underway. The first debate is in less than three weeks – in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The candidates have largely been silent on healthcare. That’s a strategic error. Nine in ten people are concerned about increases in the cost of health ...
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Read the latest on Medicaid disenrollment
Medicaid Is In Trouble, But Not For The Reasons Democrats Say
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of disenrolling people who are ineligible for benefits. And Democrats think that’s a catastrophe. Some 3.8 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April, as states resume standard eligibility reviews that had been paused since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to America’s governors, ...
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States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
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After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
Read the latest about PBMs
It’s Time To End the PBM Shakedown
Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the House and Senate, members of both parties are advancing legislation to check the power of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the self-dealing middlemen in the drug supply chain that inflate Americans’ spending on prescriptions by billions of dollars a year. By shining a light ...
Another reason why single-payer would be bad for US
Britain Offers a Cautionary Tale for ‘Medicare for All’
King Charles III’s coronation wasn’t the only historic event Great Britain marked this year. The country’s revered National Health Service is celebrating this summer the 75th anniversary of its founding. It’s a birthday Americans should take note of. The NHS has been an inspiration to generations of American leftists, who ...
Read latest about affirmative action
Ending medical-school affirmative action will be a plus for patients
The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer. Many medical-school leaders decried the high court’s ruling, claiming the ban will lead to less diversity within their student bodies, a less diverse crop of physicians and worse outcomes ...
Cancer Patients Need Private Innovation, Not Gov’t Meddling
President Joe Biden just announced a new effort that he hopes will spur the development of better, more precise cancer surgery technologies. The program is part of his administration’s “Cancer Moonshot,” which aims to halve cancer death rates in the United States by 2047. Ironically, one of the biggest obstacles to achieving ...
Read the latest on the nation's doctor shortage
Fixing the doctor shortage requires less government, not more
Congress is looking to narrow our nation’s doctor shortage. After introducing legislation that would reform our primary care system, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said last month , “Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be ...
A bipartisan way to improve health coverage, help small businesses
The House of Representatives recently passed a healthcare reform bill along party lines. All 220 Republicans who were present voted “aye,” while all 209 Democrats sounded a unanimous “nay.” Judging by that roll call, you’d think the bill — the CHOICE Arrangement Act — was full of partisan measures. But ...
Republican presidential candidates have been silent on healthcare
GOP’s Winning Healthcare Argument Must Be Made Now
The race for the Republican nomination for president is obviously well underway. The first debate is in less than three weeks – in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The candidates have largely been silent on healthcare. That’s a strategic error. Nine in ten people are concerned about increases in the cost of health ...
Read the latest on Medicaid disenrollment
Medicaid Is In Trouble, But Not For The Reasons Democrats Say
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of disenrolling people who are ineligible for benefits. And Democrats think that’s a catastrophe. Some 3.8 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April, as states resume standard eligibility reviews that had been paused since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to America’s governors, ...
States must remove government-imposed barriers to affordable and timely health care
The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency last month marked the end of several government waivers that helped expand access to care during the pandemic. Many of those waivers deserve to be made permanent. Paramount among them is the suspension of “certificate-of-need” laws that require health care providers to ...
After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
