Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
Commentary
Blame unaffordable insurance on Obamacare
The number of uninsured Americans rose in 2018 for the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, according to recent research from the Census Bureau. Obamacare’s defenders were quick to blame the change on meddling by the Trump administration. But the real culprit is the law’s faulty ...
Commentary
Why we should say no to Medicare for All
This month Sen. Bernie Sanders was released from the hospital after suffering a heart attack. The Vermont senator, a Democratic presidential candidate, used his health scare to renew his call for “Medicare for All,” which he claims will ensure everyone has access to the kind of “great health care” he ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Mentioned in “Obamacare Reboots For Prescription Drugs Take Congress By Storm”
Everyone wants to live the American dream. But many of us also fear the American nightmare: An expensive medical problem that wipes out our financial security. Maybe it’s a trip to the emergency room, or a chronic illness that requires expensive prescription medicine. That shouldn’t destroy our lives. But to ...
Commentary
The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
Commentary
How Long Can Sen. Warren Dodge Questions About Medicare For All?
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren won’t answer a simple question about the healthcare plan she endorses, Medicare for All. Will it raise taxes on middle-class families? Pressed by moderators at the most recent televised debate last month, she refused to give a straight answer. She parried late-night host Stephen Colbert’s query away. ...
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Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All
Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
Commentary
Across The Atlantic, Nationalized Health Care Is Failing Cancer Patients
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is failing cancer patients. That’s the grim conclusion of a new study published in the Lancet, a medical journal. Researchers examined five-year survival rates for seven types of cancer in seven “high income” countries. The United Kingdom came in dead last in five of the ...
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Small business owners are foolishly supporting ‘Medicare for all’
Small business owners are coming around to “Medicare for all,” according to a new national survey from the Commonwealth Fund. About 34% of the firms polled said they strongly supported “Medicare for all.” An additional 24% are somewhat on board. These firms need to realize that “Medicare for all” would raise costs for them ...
Commentary
ObamaCare, not Trump, is adding to the number of uninsured Americans
On Sept. 10, the Census Bureau announced that the share of Americans without health insurance increased for the first time since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act became law. Defenders of ObamaCare immediately blamed President Trump for the increase in the uninsured rate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, never one to mince words, said ...
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
Blame unaffordable insurance on Obamacare
The number of uninsured Americans rose in 2018 for the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, according to recent research from the Census Bureau. Obamacare’s defenders were quick to blame the change on meddling by the Trump administration. But the real culprit is the law’s faulty ...
Why we should say no to Medicare for All
This month Sen. Bernie Sanders was released from the hospital after suffering a heart attack. The Vermont senator, a Democratic presidential candidate, used his health scare to renew his call for “Medicare for All,” which he claims will ensure everyone has access to the kind of “great health care” he ...
Sally Pipes Mentioned in “Obamacare Reboots For Prescription Drugs Take Congress By Storm”
Everyone wants to live the American dream. But many of us also fear the American nightmare: An expensive medical problem that wipes out our financial security. Maybe it’s a trip to the emergency room, or a chronic illness that requires expensive prescription medicine. That shouldn’t destroy our lives. But to ...
The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
How Long Can Sen. Warren Dodge Questions About Medicare For All?
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren won’t answer a simple question about the healthcare plan she endorses, Medicare for All. Will it raise taxes on middle-class families? Pressed by moderators at the most recent televised debate last month, she refused to give a straight answer. She parried late-night host Stephen Colbert’s query away. ...
Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All
Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
Across The Atlantic, Nationalized Health Care Is Failing Cancer Patients
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is failing cancer patients. That’s the grim conclusion of a new study published in the Lancet, a medical journal. Researchers examined five-year survival rates for seven types of cancer in seven “high income” countries. The United Kingdom came in dead last in five of the ...
Small business owners are foolishly supporting ‘Medicare for all’
Small business owners are coming around to “Medicare for all,” according to a new national survey from the Commonwealth Fund. About 34% of the firms polled said they strongly supported “Medicare for all.” An additional 24% are somewhat on board. These firms need to realize that “Medicare for all” would raise costs for them ...
ObamaCare, not Trump, is adding to the number of uninsured Americans
On Sept. 10, the Census Bureau announced that the share of Americans without health insurance increased for the first time since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act became law. Defenders of ObamaCare immediately blamed President Trump for the increase in the uninsured rate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, never one to mince words, said ...
