Public Option
Health Care
Sally Pipes interviewed in World Magazine: Promise me anything
Promise me anything By Marvin Olasky Sally Pipes is president of the Pacific Research Institute and the author of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All (Encounter). I interviewed her on Feb. 6, just after that book came out, and just before COVID-19 hit the headlines. Her analysis ...
Commentary
Biden a moderate? Sanders, AOC plans for candidate suggest this instead
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has long been considered a political moderate. A new report from his “unity” task forces should put that reputation to rest. The 110-page document offers detailed policy recommendations for an incoming Biden administration. It would represent the most left-wing governing program of any president ...
Commentary
Reforms Should Empower Healthcare Entrepreneurs Not Bureaucrats
Unaffordable healthcare is an unnecessary access barrier that has burdened too many people with financially ruinous debt. Worsening these outcomes, healthcare waste is excessive, and productivity is stagnating. In response, more and more policymakers are favoring reforms that would nationalize healthcare or create a public health insurance option. Further socializing ...
Business & Economics
NEW STUDY: Future Medical Innovation Will Be Hindered Unless Elected Officials Embrace Health Care Entrepreneurship
As Americans have benefited from tele-health and other innovations thanks to COVID-19 regulatory relief, future medical advances will be stymied unless policymakers remove road blocks that make it difficult for entrepreneurs to develop new technology and for patients to access it, finds the latest study in the Breaking Down Barriers ...
Climate Change
Biden’s Mask Of Moderation Has Finally Slipped
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pitches himself to American voters as a reasonable and pragmatic centrist. But he’s stocked his campaign team with some of the Democratic party’s most prominent—and extreme—left-wingers. Last month, Biden announced the creation of several policy task forces designed to bring the party together. Those task ...
Blog
June Single Payer Poll Watch: Support Continues to Tick Upward
Support for Medicare for All continues to rise in PRI’s Single-Payer Poll Watch. The June update shows the overall average support at 57 percent, while opposition slightly dropped to 34 percent. Last month’s update showed a ten-point jump in support during the height of shelter-in-place orders and lockdowns because of ...
Commentary
Colorado Gets A Reprieve From The Public Option. All Americans Should Be So Lucky.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Colorado lawmakers have shelved their plan to overhaul the state’s healthcare system and implement a public health insurance option. Coloradans should count their blessings—for now, at least. The proposed “Colorado Option” would have curtailed access to quality care, particularly in rural areas. Even as Colorado’s leaders are backing ...
Commentary
Majority don’t understand what ‘Medicare for all’ means
Seven in ten registered voters say they support “Medicare for all,” according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll. Progressives believe the COVID-19 pandemic will only send those numbers higher. But public opinion changes once voters learn about the cost, both human and financial, of socialized medicine. A poll conducted by the ...
Blog
Single Payer Poll Watch: Coronavirus Leads to Spike in Support
The coronavirus pandemic has put public health top of mind for a majority of Americans, despite the overwhelming concern about how the U.S. economy will survive in the coming weeks. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, the political and public policy debate is set for a renewed battle over ...
Commentary
Stop Calling Biden’s Radical Health Agenda ‘Moderate’
After a contentious primary, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Earlier this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has finally endorsed Biden, and the rest of the party is falling in line. Biden largely succeeded by positioning himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to Sen. Sanders and his brand of democratic socialism. But Biden’s ...
Sally Pipes interviewed in World Magazine: Promise me anything
Promise me anything By Marvin Olasky Sally Pipes is president of the Pacific Research Institute and the author of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All (Encounter). I interviewed her on Feb. 6, just after that book came out, and just before COVID-19 hit the headlines. Her analysis ...
Biden a moderate? Sanders, AOC plans for candidate suggest this instead
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has long been considered a political moderate. A new report from his “unity” task forces should put that reputation to rest. The 110-page document offers detailed policy recommendations for an incoming Biden administration. It would represent the most left-wing governing program of any president ...
Reforms Should Empower Healthcare Entrepreneurs Not Bureaucrats
Unaffordable healthcare is an unnecessary access barrier that has burdened too many people with financially ruinous debt. Worsening these outcomes, healthcare waste is excessive, and productivity is stagnating. In response, more and more policymakers are favoring reforms that would nationalize healthcare or create a public health insurance option. Further socializing ...
NEW STUDY: Future Medical Innovation Will Be Hindered Unless Elected Officials Embrace Health Care Entrepreneurship
As Americans have benefited from tele-health and other innovations thanks to COVID-19 regulatory relief, future medical advances will be stymied unless policymakers remove road blocks that make it difficult for entrepreneurs to develop new technology and for patients to access it, finds the latest study in the Breaking Down Barriers ...
Biden’s Mask Of Moderation Has Finally Slipped
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pitches himself to American voters as a reasonable and pragmatic centrist. But he’s stocked his campaign team with some of the Democratic party’s most prominent—and extreme—left-wingers. Last month, Biden announced the creation of several policy task forces designed to bring the party together. Those task ...
June Single Payer Poll Watch: Support Continues to Tick Upward
Support for Medicare for All continues to rise in PRI’s Single-Payer Poll Watch. The June update shows the overall average support at 57 percent, while opposition slightly dropped to 34 percent. Last month’s update showed a ten-point jump in support during the height of shelter-in-place orders and lockdowns because of ...
Colorado Gets A Reprieve From The Public Option. All Americans Should Be So Lucky.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Colorado lawmakers have shelved their plan to overhaul the state’s healthcare system and implement a public health insurance option. Coloradans should count their blessings—for now, at least. The proposed “Colorado Option” would have curtailed access to quality care, particularly in rural areas. Even as Colorado’s leaders are backing ...
Majority don’t understand what ‘Medicare for all’ means
Seven in ten registered voters say they support “Medicare for all,” according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll. Progressives believe the COVID-19 pandemic will only send those numbers higher. But public opinion changes once voters learn about the cost, both human and financial, of socialized medicine. A poll conducted by the ...
Single Payer Poll Watch: Coronavirus Leads to Spike in Support
The coronavirus pandemic has put public health top of mind for a majority of Americans, despite the overwhelming concern about how the U.S. economy will survive in the coming weeks. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, the political and public policy debate is set for a renewed battle over ...
Stop Calling Biden’s Radical Health Agenda ‘Moderate’
After a contentious primary, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Earlier this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has finally endorsed Biden, and the rest of the party is falling in line. Biden largely succeeded by positioning himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to Sen. Sanders and his brand of democratic socialism. But Biden’s ...
