Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Record Obamacare Enrollment Embarrassment Masquerades as Victory
Just under 24 million Americans have purchased health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2025, marking yet another year of record-high enrollment. As in previous years, the Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. “Every American should have access to quality, ...
Commentary
Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States
When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
Commentary
Make Hospital Prices Transparent Again
In just a few days, President-elect Trump will reclaim the Oval Office. High on his list of priorities should be enforcing the hospital price transparency rules he announced during his first term. The rules, which took effect in 2021, require hospitals to publish prices for 300 common procedures — from ...
Commentary
Republicans can make Medicaid work again
The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
Commentary
Make Hospitals Competitive Again by Reining in Spending
The United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare in 2023, according to figures published last month by the federal government. That’s an increase of 7.5% relative to 2022. What’s behind this astounding spending growth? It’s largely hospital care. Read the entire op-ed here.
Commentary
Medicare should cover anti-obesity drugs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule expanding Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to anti-obesity drugs such as GLP-1s. Congress is also considering such a move. Expanding coverage to these patient groups makes sense. Read the entire op-ed here.
Commentary
Keep Your Price Controls Off Weight-Loss Drugs
Biden administration is proposing that Medicare and Medicaid cover Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. It’s unclear what the Trump administration will do with its predecessor’s proposal. Democrats may be trying to goad Medicare under Trump into slapping price controls on GLP-1s — something progressives have long wanted ...
Commentary
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
Commentary
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
Record Obamacare Enrollment Embarrassment Masquerades as Victory
Just under 24 million Americans have purchased health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges for 2025, marking yet another year of record-high enrollment. As in previous years, the Biden administration was quick to declare this surge in sign-ups a victory for patients. “Every American should have access to quality, ...
Canada’s Healthcare System Has No Place In The United States
When Justin Trudeau announced earlier this month that he would resign as prime minister of Canada, Donald Trump was ready with one of his go-to jokes. “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State,” then President-elect Trump posted on social media, echoing his frequent assertion that the United States ...
Make Hospital Prices Transparent Again
In just a few days, President-elect Trump will reclaim the Oval Office. High on his list of priorities should be enforcing the hospital price transparency rules he announced during his first term. The rules, which took effect in 2021, require hospitals to publish prices for 300 common procedures — from ...
Republicans can make Medicaid work again
The incoming Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress are looking to rein in Medicaid, the health insurance entitlement that consumed a record 10% of the federal budget in 2023 despite delivering substandard care to its 79.4 million enrollees. Democrats are lining up to denounce the GOP’s plans, which they claim will ...
Make Hospitals Competitive Again by Reining in Spending
The United States spent $4.9 trillion on healthcare in 2023, according to figures published last month by the federal government. That’s an increase of 7.5% relative to 2022. What’s behind this astounding spending growth? It’s largely hospital care. Read the entire op-ed here.
Medicare should cover anti-obesity drugs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a rule expanding Medicare and Medicaid patients’ access to anti-obesity drugs such as GLP-1s. Congress is also considering such a move. Expanding coverage to these patient groups makes sense. Read the entire op-ed here.
Keep Your Price Controls Off Weight-Loss Drugs
Biden administration is proposing that Medicare and Medicaid cover Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. It’s unclear what the Trump administration will do with its predecessor’s proposal. Democrats may be trying to goad Medicare under Trump into slapping price controls on GLP-1s — something progressives have long wanted ...
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
