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Sally Pipes – It’s Baaack, Single-Payer Health Care in California
Our podcast guest this week is Sally Pipes, PRI president and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care. Sally discusses two health care bills that are wending their way through the legislature.
Pacific Research Institute
April 17, 2023
Commentary
State Public Option Reforms Reveal Folly of Gov’t Healthcare
Over the last few years, several states have tried their hand at creating a “public option” health insurance plan. Their experiences offer a cautionary tale to those pushing for similar reforms at the federal level — as well as to states considering public options of their own. In its purest form, the ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 10, 2023
Blog
Flaws with Single-Payer
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part two of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Despite the obvious failures of Obamacare and Medicaid, Democrats still can’t get enough of public health care. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 5, 2023
Commentary
Read Why We Can't Afford Single-Payer
No ‘California Dreamin’ for Single Payer Healthcare
California is dreaming about a government takeover of health insurance once again. Earlier this month, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced SB 770. The bill would seek a federal waiver to allow the state to use federal funds earmarked for Medicare and Medicaid to create a state-run health insurance system that ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 4, 2023
Commentary
Britain Desperately Needs More Private Healthcare Options
Consultants at the British Medical Association are threatening to go on strike, citing pay cuts. They’d be joining a months-long series of walkouts by British medical staffers. Nurses with the country’s government-run National Health Service took to the picket lines in mid-December, January, and February. And while the British government plans to discuss ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 14, 2023
Commentary
States Sad, Unhealthy Obsession Over Single-Payer Won’t End
Single-payer healthcare is back on the legislative agenda in New York, California, and Oregon. And just like previous efforts by state governments to take over their health insurance markets, these new ones are nothing to celebrate. Single-payer healthcare invariably leads to long waits for low-quality care, all paid for by ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 6, 2023
Commentary
Bernie Sanders Twists the Truth about American Health Care
Senator Bernie Sanders, the tireless champion of “Medicare for All,” has just assumed the chair of the Senate’s powerful Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Unfortunately, that means we can expect to hear more bogus statistics about the supposed failures of the American health-care system. Lately, Sanders has been asserting that “85 ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 19, 2023
Commentary
Washington’s Public Option Is Nothing To Cheer About
When Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee signed the nation’s first public health insurance option into law in 2019, he claimed it’d ensure that “all Washingtonians have high-quality health-care insurance, an option they can afford that is available across the state.” Three years in, it hasn’t. Advocates for a public option would do ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 13, 2023
Commentary
A Canadian Province Moving Away From Cruelty of Single-Payer
While Democrats in Washington extol the virtues of socialized medicine, Canada’s most populous province is beginning to move away from single-payer health care. Last month, Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced plans to increase its reliance on private healthcare providers. The move is a necessary response to the ongoing crisis in Canada’s ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 2, 2023
Commentary
Canadian Leaders Finally Waking Up To The Horrors Of Single-Payer Health Care
In my last column, I wrote that Canada’s healthcare system was no model for the United States. Perhaps Canadian officials were listening. Earlier this month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that Canada’s largest province would take a page from the U.S. playbook—and expand private care in order to provide some relief to the ...
Sally C. Pipes
January 30, 2023
Sally Pipes – It’s Baaack, Single-Payer Health Care in California
Our podcast guest this week is Sally Pipes, PRI president and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care. Sally discusses two health care bills that are wending their way through the legislature.
State Public Option Reforms Reveal Folly of Gov’t Healthcare
Over the last few years, several states have tried their hand at creating a “public option” health insurance plan. Their experiences offer a cautionary tale to those pushing for similar reforms at the federal level — as well as to states considering public options of their own. In its purest form, the ...
Flaws with Single-Payer
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part two of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th. Despite the obvious failures of Obamacare and Medicaid, Democrats still can’t get enough of public health care. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ...
Read Why We Can't Afford Single-Payer
No ‘California Dreamin’ for Single Payer Healthcare
California is dreaming about a government takeover of health insurance once again. Earlier this month, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced SB 770. The bill would seek a federal waiver to allow the state to use federal funds earmarked for Medicare and Medicaid to create a state-run health insurance system that ...
Britain Desperately Needs More Private Healthcare Options
Consultants at the British Medical Association are threatening to go on strike, citing pay cuts. They’d be joining a months-long series of walkouts by British medical staffers. Nurses with the country’s government-run National Health Service took to the picket lines in mid-December, January, and February. And while the British government plans to discuss ...
States Sad, Unhealthy Obsession Over Single-Payer Won’t End
Single-payer healthcare is back on the legislative agenda in New York, California, and Oregon. And just like previous efforts by state governments to take over their health insurance markets, these new ones are nothing to celebrate. Single-payer healthcare invariably leads to long waits for low-quality care, all paid for by ...
Bernie Sanders Twists the Truth about American Health Care
Senator Bernie Sanders, the tireless champion of “Medicare for All,” has just assumed the chair of the Senate’s powerful Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Unfortunately, that means we can expect to hear more bogus statistics about the supposed failures of the American health-care system. Lately, Sanders has been asserting that “85 ...
Washington’s Public Option Is Nothing To Cheer About
When Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee signed the nation’s first public health insurance option into law in 2019, he claimed it’d ensure that “all Washingtonians have high-quality health-care insurance, an option they can afford that is available across the state.” Three years in, it hasn’t. Advocates for a public option would do ...
A Canadian Province Moving Away From Cruelty of Single-Payer
While Democrats in Washington extol the virtues of socialized medicine, Canada’s most populous province is beginning to move away from single-payer health care. Last month, Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced plans to increase its reliance on private healthcare providers. The move is a necessary response to the ongoing crisis in Canada’s ...
Canadian Leaders Finally Waking Up To The Horrors Of Single-Payer Health Care
In my last column, I wrote that Canada’s healthcare system was no model for the United States. Perhaps Canadian officials were listening. Earlier this month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that Canada’s largest province would take a page from the U.S. playbook—and expand private care in order to provide some relief to the ...