Single-Payer
Commentary
How Big-Box Retailers Can Revitalize Rural Health Care
There’s a surefire, and perhaps unlikely, way to bolster access to health care for underserved Americans—at the shopping mall. Millions of Americans struggle to get affordable, timely medical care. Roughly one-quarter of rural Americans haven’t been able to get needed care at some point in recent years, according to a May 2019 ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 14, 2019
Commentary
A dose of reality on Medicare for All’s cost
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren just released her plan to pay for Medicare for All. It’s ludicrous from the jump. For starters, its price tag is “only” $20.5 trillion in new federal spending over 10 years. That’s $10 trillion less than both the libertarian Mercatus Center and the left-leaning Urban Institute estimate Medicare for All’s cost to ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 11, 2019
Commentary
TennCare block grant will serve as blueprint for the country
Tennessee has a plan to revolutionize health care for its low-income residents. The Volunteer State is petitioning the federal government to fund its Medicaid program, TennCare, with an annual lump-sum payment. The Medicaid funding status quo, wherein the federal government matches every dollar a state spends on the program, encourages ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 6, 2019
Featured
Watch Sally Pipes on Fox Business: How Much Would a Single-Payer Plan Cost?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses 2020 Democratic contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to provide a public health care system with host Elizabeth MacDonald on “The Evening Edit” on Fox Business. Pipes makes the case that the Warren plan would ...
Pacific Research Institute
October 31, 2019
California
It’s No Surprise Republicans Are Leaving Liberals To Fester In High-Cost California
It was a New York governor, not one in California, who said conservatives weren’t welcome in the state. But apparently conservatives out here are getting the message. A recent poll found that 46 percent of those who consider themselves “very conservative” have considered leaving California. Overall, the “high cost of ...
Kerry Jackson
October 30, 2019
Commentary
Bernie Sanders Was Lucky He Didn’t Have His Heart Attack In A Single-Payer System
At the October 15 Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “Under the Medicare for all bill that I wrote, premiums are gone. Co-payments are gone. Deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone. We’re going to do better than the Canadians do, and that is what they have managed to ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 28, 2019
Commentary
Elizabeth Warren misleads Americans on harm and costs of ‘Medicare-for-all’
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to release her plan to pay for “Medicare-for-all.” Throughout her campaign, Warren has come under fire for refusing to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund her health care plan. Many of her fellow Democrats — including “Medicare-for-all” architect Bernie Sanders — ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 27, 2019
Health Care
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ Washington Examiner Column
President Donald Trump shared Sally Pipes Washington Examiner column on Canada’s single-payer healthcare with his Facebook followers. Pipes op-ed criticizes Senator Bernie Sanders praise of Canada’s flawed single-payer healthcare.
Evan Harris
October 25, 2019
Commentary
Hey Bernie, it’s ‘Medicare for all’ that would be ‘cruel’ and ‘dysfunctional’
During last week’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the current U.S. healthcare system “dysfunctional” and “cruel.” Words like that are more appropriate descriptors of the government-run healthcare systems abroad that Sanders would like to import to the United States. Take Canada, the closest analog to Sanders’ vision of “Medicare ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 24, 2019
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, ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 22, 2019
How Big-Box Retailers Can Revitalize Rural Health Care
There’s a surefire, and perhaps unlikely, way to bolster access to health care for underserved Americans—at the shopping mall. Millions of Americans struggle to get affordable, timely medical care. Roughly one-quarter of rural Americans haven’t been able to get needed care at some point in recent years, according to a May 2019 ...
A dose of reality on Medicare for All’s cost
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren just released her plan to pay for Medicare for All. It’s ludicrous from the jump. For starters, its price tag is “only” $20.5 trillion in new federal spending over 10 years. That’s $10 trillion less than both the libertarian Mercatus Center and the left-leaning Urban Institute estimate Medicare for All’s cost to ...
TennCare block grant will serve as blueprint for the country
Tennessee has a plan to revolutionize health care for its low-income residents. The Volunteer State is petitioning the federal government to fund its Medicaid program, TennCare, with an annual lump-sum payment. The Medicaid funding status quo, wherein the federal government matches every dollar a state spends on the program, encourages ...
Watch Sally Pipes on Fox Business: How Much Would a Single-Payer Plan Cost?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses 2020 Democratic contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to provide a public health care system with host Elizabeth MacDonald on “The Evening Edit” on Fox Business. Pipes makes the case that the Warren plan would ...
It’s No Surprise Republicans Are Leaving Liberals To Fester In High-Cost California
It was a New York governor, not one in California, who said conservatives weren’t welcome in the state. But apparently conservatives out here are getting the message. A recent poll found that 46 percent of those who consider themselves “very conservative” have considered leaving California. Overall, the “high cost of ...
Bernie Sanders Was Lucky He Didn’t Have His Heart Attack In A Single-Payer System
At the October 15 Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “Under the Medicare for all bill that I wrote, premiums are gone. Co-payments are gone. Deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone. We’re going to do better than the Canadians do, and that is what they have managed to ...
Elizabeth Warren misleads Americans on harm and costs of ‘Medicare-for-all’
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to release her plan to pay for “Medicare-for-all.” Throughout her campaign, Warren has come under fire for refusing to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund her health care plan. Many of her fellow Democrats — including “Medicare-for-all” architect Bernie Sanders — ...
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ Washington Examiner Column
President Donald Trump shared Sally Pipes Washington Examiner column on Canada’s single-payer healthcare with his Facebook followers. Pipes op-ed criticizes Senator Bernie Sanders praise of Canada’s flawed single-payer healthcare.
Hey Bernie, it’s ‘Medicare for all’ that would be ‘cruel’ and ‘dysfunctional’
During last week’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the current U.S. healthcare system “dysfunctional” and “cruel.” Words like that are more appropriate descriptors of the government-run healthcare systems abroad that Sanders would like to import to the United States. Take Canada, the closest analog to Sanders’ vision of “Medicare ...
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, ...