Health Care
California
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Commentary
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Commentary
Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
Health Care
Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio. Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Commentary
Universal Coverage Hearings Begin In California Assembly
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with Capitol Public Radio News as Universal Coverage hearings begin in the California Assembly. She says drastically expanding public health care in California will stretch the state’s budget too thin. Listen here
Commentary
Republicans, don’t forfeit the battle against Obamacare’s insurer bailouts
Washington Examiner Last week, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced a bill they say will stabilize Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. A dozen Republicans and a dozen Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. That’s a shame. The proposal is a bad deal for proponents of free markets. It ...
Commentary
Trump’s Changes to ACA Are Worth Celebrating
Jewish Journal On Oct. 12, President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not, increasing the number of insurance choices available to Americans — and reducing their cost. The order directs ...
California
Unmistakable Signs That California Lawmakers Have (Yet Again) Gone Too Far
A Mercury News headline earlier this year declared that “Amid ‘Resistance,’ activists try to push California Democratic Party to the left.” But looking back now that the bill signing period is complete, it’s clear that Sacramento Democrats don’t need to be pushed left. They’re headed that way just fine on ...
Blog
The Price Control Hammer Will Break the Health Care System
From California to Washington D.C. legislators continue to confirm Abraham Kaplan’s famous insight that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” In the case of our legislators, that hammer is price controls; and, what needs pounding is the price of ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks with KCRA about President Trump’s Health Care Executive Order
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with KCRA 3 in Sacramento about President Trump’s executive action on cost-sharing reduction payments. She says that many uninsured found Obamacare’s costs too high, and that the President’s action will bring about more health ...
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio. Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Universal Coverage Hearings Begin In California Assembly
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with Capitol Public Radio News as Universal Coverage hearings begin in the California Assembly. She says drastically expanding public health care in California will stretch the state’s budget too thin. Listen here
Republicans, don’t forfeit the battle against Obamacare’s insurer bailouts
Washington Examiner Last week, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced a bill they say will stabilize Obamacare’s insurance exchanges. A dozen Republicans and a dozen Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. That’s a shame. The proposal is a bad deal for proponents of free markets. It ...
Trump’s Changes to ACA Are Worth Celebrating
Jewish Journal On Oct. 12, President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not, increasing the number of insurance choices available to Americans — and reducing their cost. The order directs ...
Unmistakable Signs That California Lawmakers Have (Yet Again) Gone Too Far
A Mercury News headline earlier this year declared that “Amid ‘Resistance,’ activists try to push California Democratic Party to the left.” But looking back now that the bill signing period is complete, it’s clear that Sacramento Democrats don’t need to be pushed left. They’re headed that way just fine on ...
The Price Control Hammer Will Break the Health Care System
From California to Washington D.C. legislators continue to confirm Abraham Kaplan’s famous insight that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” In the case of our legislators, that hammer is price controls; and, what needs pounding is the price of ...
Sally Pipes Talks with KCRA about President Trump’s Health Care Executive Order
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with KCRA 3 in Sacramento about President Trump’s executive action on cost-sharing reduction payments. She says that many uninsured found Obamacare’s costs too high, and that the President’s action will bring about more health ...
