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Sally Pipes featured in New York Post regarding undocumented immigrants in CA qualifying for free healthcare
By Victor Nava Cash-strapped California will ring in the new year by offering free health care to all undocumented immigrants who qualify for the state’s government-run health insurance program. “The expansion was a bad idea when the state’s coffers were flush. Now that California is struggling to make ends meet, ...
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New Report Confirms: Left’s Health Policy Is Malignant
Earlier this month, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data on the state of U.S. health spending. The agency’s report offers a chilling diagnosis of the challenges facing the U.S. health system. It also reveals just how misguided the Democrats’ health policy agenda has been ...
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Government run health care won’t improve life expectancy
Between 2021 and 2022, U.S. life expectancy jumped more than 12 months, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An American born today can now expect to live 77.5 years — up from 76.4 in 2021. Predictably, this good news didn’t register with progressives working ...
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Canadian Health Care Leaves Patients Frozen In Line
More than one-fourth of Americans receive taxpayer-funded health coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the latest federal estimates. But that “free” coverage has a significant cost. Medicaid beneficiaries must wait longer for care than those with private insurance. A study from 2021 found that Medicaid patients waited 1.3 ...
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Medicaid spending is on the rise — progressive policies are to blame
Medicaid expenditures totaled more than $805 billion in 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s a 9.6% increase compared with 2021. The data are the latest indication of just how big Medicaid has become. And that’s no accident. For years, progressives have advanced policies that have nudged millions more ...
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California’s single-payer dream further away than ever
California is facing a record budget deficit next year of $68 billion. As a result, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic supermajority in the state legislature will have to scale back their progressive ambitions. Can the state really afford the looming rise in the minimum wage for healthcare workers to ...
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Biden Is Medical Innovation’s Executioner
President Joe Biden just declared war on medical science — and has undermined his “Cancer Moonshot.” That’s the only way to interpret the administration’s announcement last week arrogating the power to seize patents for medicines and other technologies developed with taxpayer funds on the grounds that they’re too expensive. The president claims ...
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Reining in the true culprit behind critical medicine shortages
Drug shortages in the United States have reached crisis levels. The Food and Drug Administration reports that nearly 140 medicines are currently in short supply. That figure includes more than a dozen cancer drugs, which has forced doctors and patients to confront the dangerous possibility of rationing. These shortages threaten ...
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How 2024 Republican presidential candidates should talk about healthcare
Republican presidential candidates are once again talking about healthcare policy. At a debate earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) discussed the need for more affordable healthcare. Vivek Ramaswamy called for a more competitive insurance marketplace. The renewed interest in healthcare among Republicans came on the heels of former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he’d seriously look at replacing ...
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GOP Shouldn’t Squander Trump’s Revival of Obamacare Debate
Former President Donald Trump recently revealed he is “seriously looking at alternatives” to Obamacare. As he put it in a post on Truth Social, “[t]he cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare.” Those comments should have come as good news to lawmakers looking to reduce the ...
Sally Pipes featured in New York Post regarding undocumented immigrants in CA qualifying for free healthcare
By Victor Nava Cash-strapped California will ring in the new year by offering free health care to all undocumented immigrants who qualify for the state’s government-run health insurance program. “The expansion was a bad idea when the state’s coffers were flush. Now that California is struggling to make ends meet, ...
New Report Confirms: Left’s Health Policy Is Malignant
Earlier this month, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data on the state of U.S. health spending. The agency’s report offers a chilling diagnosis of the challenges facing the U.S. health system. It also reveals just how misguided the Democrats’ health policy agenda has been ...
Government run health care won’t improve life expectancy
Between 2021 and 2022, U.S. life expectancy jumped more than 12 months, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An American born today can now expect to live 77.5 years — up from 76.4 in 2021. Predictably, this good news didn’t register with progressives working ...
Canadian Health Care Leaves Patients Frozen In Line
More than one-fourth of Americans receive taxpayer-funded health coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the latest federal estimates. But that “free” coverage has a significant cost. Medicaid beneficiaries must wait longer for care than those with private insurance. A study from 2021 found that Medicaid patients waited 1.3 ...
Medicaid spending is on the rise — progressive policies are to blame
Medicaid expenditures totaled more than $805 billion in 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That’s a 9.6% increase compared with 2021. The data are the latest indication of just how big Medicaid has become. And that’s no accident. For years, progressives have advanced policies that have nudged millions more ...
California’s single-payer dream further away than ever
California is facing a record budget deficit next year of $68 billion. As a result, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic supermajority in the state legislature will have to scale back their progressive ambitions. Can the state really afford the looming rise in the minimum wage for healthcare workers to ...
Biden Is Medical Innovation’s Executioner
President Joe Biden just declared war on medical science — and has undermined his “Cancer Moonshot.” That’s the only way to interpret the administration’s announcement last week arrogating the power to seize patents for medicines and other technologies developed with taxpayer funds on the grounds that they’re too expensive. The president claims ...
Reining in the true culprit behind critical medicine shortages
Drug shortages in the United States have reached crisis levels. The Food and Drug Administration reports that nearly 140 medicines are currently in short supply. That figure includes more than a dozen cancer drugs, which has forced doctors and patients to confront the dangerous possibility of rationing. These shortages threaten ...
How 2024 Republican presidential candidates should talk about healthcare
Republican presidential candidates are once again talking about healthcare policy. At a debate earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) discussed the need for more affordable healthcare. Vivek Ramaswamy called for a more competitive insurance marketplace. The renewed interest in healthcare among Republicans came on the heels of former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he’d seriously look at replacing ...
Read Sally Pipes' latest at Newsmax
GOP Shouldn’t Squander Trump’s Revival of Obamacare Debate
Former President Donald Trump recently revealed he is “seriously looking at alternatives” to Obamacare. As he put it in a post on Truth Social, “[t]he cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare.” Those comments should have come as good news to lawmakers looking to reduce the ...
