Health Care Reform
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All in Managed Care Magazine
Medicare Expansion Steps Into the Political Limelight Democrats are running on Medicare for All—or extending the seniors’ program to the merely middle-aged—or resurrecting a ‘public option’. Republicans say Medicare expansion would mean government intrusion and inefficiency. But politics aside, how would these Medicare expansions work? By Timothy Kelley Sometimes it ...
Agriculture
Nationally-Renowned Scholar Henry Miller, M.S., M.D., Joins Pacific Research Institute as Senior Fellow in Health Care
Former Hoover Fellow’s Research Will Focus on Genetic Engineering, Evidence-Based Medicine, Regulatory Reform SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute, California’s leading free-market think tank, today announced the hiring of nationally-renowned scholar and researcher and former Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Henry Miller as a Senior Fellow in Health Care. At ...
Commentary
Why Healthcare Reform May Not Be Dead Yet
Healthcare reform may not be dead yet in this country. Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives green-lit three bills that would put money back in the pockets of patients. Now it’s up to the Senate to act. What better way to close out the summer than to correct ...
Commentary
In Progressive America, All Roads Lead to Single-Payer
Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., recently introduced the “Choose Medicare Act,” which would give every American the option to buy into Medicare. Their colleagues have already rolled out three other bills that would provide for a more limited Medicare buy-in, a Medicaid buy-in, and a full-fledged, government-run, ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes on “Seth and Chris Show”
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins the “Seth and Chris Show” on KKNT-AM in Phoenix to discuss the latest topics in health care reform.
Commentary
One ObamaCare Mandate Just Got A Little Less Mandatory
The Trump administration is trying to make health insurance affordable again. That’s the aim of a regulation issued earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new rule would give states greater leeway over how they comply with ObamaCare’s essential health benefits, or EHB, mandate, which ...
Commentary
Iowa Is “Done” Waiting for Congress to Fix Obamacare
As goes Iowa, so goes the nation — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom during presidential elections. Let’s hope the same rule applies to healthcare reform. Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law that takes advantage of a major loophole in Obamacare. The legislation, based on ...
California
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates – The View from Under the Dome
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates joins us as she celebrates her one-year anniversary as Leader to discuss the top issues on the agenda at the State Capitol – poverty, health care reform, transportation, the state budget, taxes, and her caucus’ priorities for 2018.
Commentary
What ‘United States of Care’ Truly Cares About
There’s a new kid on the health policy block. A deep-pocketed, nominally bipartisan advocacy group called United States of Care — which counts former governors, senators, and top health policy officials among its members — launched earlier this month to great media acclaim. Since its debut, the group hasn’t said much. Its ...
Blog
What a Difference a Year Makes: A Washington Update
For many years now, Sally Pipes and I make a trip to Washington in the early part of the year to take the political and policy pulse of the nation’s capital. We meet with members of Congress, their staffs, and executive branch officials to get firsthand knowledge of the policy ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All in Managed Care Magazine
Medicare Expansion Steps Into the Political Limelight Democrats are running on Medicare for All—or extending the seniors’ program to the merely middle-aged—or resurrecting a ‘public option’. Republicans say Medicare expansion would mean government intrusion and inefficiency. But politics aside, how would these Medicare expansions work? By Timothy Kelley Sometimes it ...
Nationally-Renowned Scholar Henry Miller, M.S., M.D., Joins Pacific Research Institute as Senior Fellow in Health Care
Former Hoover Fellow’s Research Will Focus on Genetic Engineering, Evidence-Based Medicine, Regulatory Reform SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute, California’s leading free-market think tank, today announced the hiring of nationally-renowned scholar and researcher and former Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Henry Miller as a Senior Fellow in Health Care. At ...
Why Healthcare Reform May Not Be Dead Yet
Healthcare reform may not be dead yet in this country. Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives green-lit three bills that would put money back in the pockets of patients. Now it’s up to the Senate to act. What better way to close out the summer than to correct ...
In Progressive America, All Roads Lead to Single-Payer
Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., recently introduced the “Choose Medicare Act,” which would give every American the option to buy into Medicare. Their colleagues have already rolled out three other bills that would provide for a more limited Medicare buy-in, a Medicaid buy-in, and a full-fledged, government-run, ...
Sally Pipes on “Seth and Chris Show”
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins the “Seth and Chris Show” on KKNT-AM in Phoenix to discuss the latest topics in health care reform.
One ObamaCare Mandate Just Got A Little Less Mandatory
The Trump administration is trying to make health insurance affordable again. That’s the aim of a regulation issued earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new rule would give states greater leeway over how they comply with ObamaCare’s essential health benefits, or EHB, mandate, which ...
Iowa Is “Done” Waiting for Congress to Fix Obamacare
As goes Iowa, so goes the nation — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom during presidential elections. Let’s hope the same rule applies to healthcare reform. Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law that takes advantage of a major loophole in Obamacare. The legislation, based on ...
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates – The View from Under the Dome
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates joins us as she celebrates her one-year anniversary as Leader to discuss the top issues on the agenda at the State Capitol – poverty, health care reform, transportation, the state budget, taxes, and her caucus’ priorities for 2018.
What ‘United States of Care’ Truly Cares About
There’s a new kid on the health policy block. A deep-pocketed, nominally bipartisan advocacy group called United States of Care — which counts former governors, senators, and top health policy officials among its members — launched earlier this month to great media acclaim. Since its debut, the group hasn’t said much. Its ...
What a Difference a Year Makes: A Washington Update
For many years now, Sally Pipes and I make a trip to Washington in the early part of the year to take the political and policy pulse of the nation’s capital. We meet with members of Congress, their staffs, and executive branch officials to get firsthand knowledge of the policy ...
