Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Democrats Should Be Honest About Healthcare Waste and Fraud
For weeks, opponents of Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act have portrayed it as a threat to health coverage for millions of Americans. Some critics have said that it would covertly repeal Obamacare. If only. The bill is hardly a radical assault on health coverage. It would finally crack down ...
Commentary
Congress Can Help Small Businesses Afford Health Insurance
Health insurance is more expensive than ever. The average family plan last year cost employers and employees over $19,000 and nearly $6,300 per year, respectively. That’s enough to buy a new car. Congressional Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill could help bring down those costs. Among other things, the One Big Beautiful ...
Commentary
Physician-Assisted Suicide Is A Bigger Problem Than We Realize
Dovie Eisner was born with a rare genetic condition called nemaline myopathy. He requires a wheelchair and has a host of other health problems. Last year at one point, he stopped breathing, passed out on the street, and was taken to the emergency room. “I was alive—thanks to the determination ...
Commentary
What’s So Scary About Medicare Reform?
One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers. But as ...
Commentary
Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
Commentary
This Groundbreaking Insurance Reform Is Buried In The One Big, Beautiful Bill
The legislative package would codify and expand Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which the first Trump administration introduced in 2019. ICHRAs allow employers to give workers untaxed dollars, which they can use to purchase health insurance on the individual market. In many ways, ICHRAs are the health insurance equivalent of retirement accounts to ...
Drug Pricing
D.C.’s Embrace of Price Controls Bad News for Patients
President Trump announced his intention last month to peg U.S. drug prices to those that foreign governments have set within their borders. The very same day, federal officials said they’d reveal in February 2026 a list of 15 drugs subject to price controls through Medicare’s Part B outpatient benefit and ...
Blog
Read the latest on the push for single-payer health care
What’s Wrong With Single-Payer? Ask Vermont.
In 2011, Vermont created Green Mountain Care, “a publicly financed health care program designed to contain costs and to provide comprehensive, affordable, high-quality health care coverage for all Vermont residents.” But the initiative didn’t last long. Estimates suggested the program would cost between $1.6 and $2.5 billion in just its ...
Commentary
America Shouldn’t Buy Into Single-Payer Mirage
Will the seventh time be the charm? Sen. Bernie Sanders sure hopes so. Vermont’s senior senator just introduced his latest bid to install Medicare for All in the United States. In seven of the last eight Congresses, dating back to 2011, he’s offered legislation to launch a government takeover of ...
Commentary
Potential Tariffs Will Harm Patients In The Name Of Protecting Them
Two months ago, the Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether pharmaceutical imports pose a threat to national security (i.e., a Section 232 investigation). Not only are the investigation’s accusations groundless, implementing the proposed remedy – more tariffs – will create the very problems that the investigation hopes to avoid. ...
Democrats Should Be Honest About Healthcare Waste and Fraud
For weeks, opponents of Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act have portrayed it as a threat to health coverage for millions of Americans. Some critics have said that it would covertly repeal Obamacare. If only. The bill is hardly a radical assault on health coverage. It would finally crack down ...
Congress Can Help Small Businesses Afford Health Insurance
Health insurance is more expensive than ever. The average family plan last year cost employers and employees over $19,000 and nearly $6,300 per year, respectively. That’s enough to buy a new car. Congressional Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill could help bring down those costs. Among other things, the One Big Beautiful ...
Physician-Assisted Suicide Is A Bigger Problem Than We Realize
Dovie Eisner was born with a rare genetic condition called nemaline myopathy. He requires a wheelchair and has a host of other health problems. Last year at one point, he stopped breathing, passed out on the street, and was taken to the emergency room. “I was alive—thanks to the determination ...
What’s So Scary About Medicare Reform?
One of the biggest questions surrounding Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act concerns the fate of Medicare. Earlier this month, GOP lawmakers were reportedly considering reforms aimed at reducing waste, fraud and abuse in the entitlement as a way to deliver savings for taxpayers. But as ...
Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
This Groundbreaking Insurance Reform Is Buried In The One Big, Beautiful Bill
The legislative package would codify and expand Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, which the first Trump administration introduced in 2019. ICHRAs allow employers to give workers untaxed dollars, which they can use to purchase health insurance on the individual market. In many ways, ICHRAs are the health insurance equivalent of retirement accounts to ...
D.C.’s Embrace of Price Controls Bad News for Patients
President Trump announced his intention last month to peg U.S. drug prices to those that foreign governments have set within their borders. The very same day, federal officials said they’d reveal in February 2026 a list of 15 drugs subject to price controls through Medicare’s Part B outpatient benefit and ...
Read the latest on the push for single-payer health care
What’s Wrong With Single-Payer? Ask Vermont.
In 2011, Vermont created Green Mountain Care, “a publicly financed health care program designed to contain costs and to provide comprehensive, affordable, high-quality health care coverage for all Vermont residents.” But the initiative didn’t last long. Estimates suggested the program would cost between $1.6 and $2.5 billion in just its ...
America Shouldn’t Buy Into Single-Payer Mirage
Will the seventh time be the charm? Sen. Bernie Sanders sure hopes so. Vermont’s senior senator just introduced his latest bid to install Medicare for All in the United States. In seven of the last eight Congresses, dating back to 2011, he’s offered legislation to launch a government takeover of ...
Potential Tariffs Will Harm Patients In The Name Of Protecting Them
Two months ago, the Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether pharmaceutical imports pose a threat to national security (i.e., a Section 232 investigation). Not only are the investigation’s accusations groundless, implementing the proposed remedy – more tariffs – will create the very problems that the investigation hopes to avoid. ...
