Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Killing our choices
Obamacare is under siege in the courts. Monday, federal Judge Henry Hudson announced that he’d rule on Virginia’s constitutional challenge to the health law before year’s end. That on the heels of another federal ruling, by Judge Roger Vinson, that 20 states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses can ...
Agriculture
A glimpse of a future with Obamacare
The one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act this week brings new reason to consider a major health-care announcement by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Almost five years into his states Romneycare plan, it turns out that spending is out of control, threatening public-sector budgets and private-sector wealth generation. The solution ...
Commentary
Debate: Is the Affordable Care Act Bad for America? with Sally Pipes
UVA Miller Center 2014 National Debate Series: Beyond Gridlock Affordable Care Act: Why Are So Many People Against It? Moderator Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Panelists: Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor, The New Republic Sally C. Pipes, CEO & President, Pacific Research Institute Avik Roy, Senior Fellow Healthcare, Manhattan ...
Business & Economics
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to Contrarian readers. Those readers know that this column finds little merit in most government policies on women’s issues or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true ...
Commentary
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Commentary
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
Commentary
Prop. 209 back in spotlight
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to those who find little merit in most government policies on women’s or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true in, of all places, California. Officials in ...
Commentary
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
Commentary
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Business & Economics
Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative
Vol. 14 No. 08, September 7, 2010 Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative By Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO It’s been a challenging summer for the Women’s Movement. The recent publication of two “time use surveys” in the United States and Europe contradicts the preferred feminist narrative about the lives ...
Killing our choices
Obamacare is under siege in the courts. Monday, federal Judge Henry Hudson announced that he’d rule on Virginia’s constitutional challenge to the health law before year’s end. That on the heels of another federal ruling, by Judge Roger Vinson, that 20 states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses can ...
A glimpse of a future with Obamacare
The one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act this week brings new reason to consider a major health-care announcement by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Almost five years into his states Romneycare plan, it turns out that spending is out of control, threatening public-sector budgets and private-sector wealth generation. The solution ...
Debate: Is the Affordable Care Act Bad for America? with Sally Pipes
UVA Miller Center 2014 National Debate Series: Beyond Gridlock Affordable Care Act: Why Are So Many People Against It? Moderator Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Panelists: Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor, The New Republic Sally C. Pipes, CEO & President, Pacific Research Institute Avik Roy, Senior Fellow Healthcare, Manhattan ...
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to Contrarian readers. Those readers know that this column finds little merit in most government policies on women’s issues or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true ...
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
Prop. 209 back in spotlight
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to those who find little merit in most government policies on women’s or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true in, of all places, California. Officials in ...
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative
Vol. 14 No. 08, September 7, 2010 Studies Disprove “Second Shift” Narrative By Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO It’s been a challenging summer for the Women’s Movement. The recent publication of two “time use surveys” in the United States and Europe contradicts the preferred feminist narrative about the lives ...
