Sally C. Pipes
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Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
Commentary
Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
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Read the latest about Medicaid overreach
States use Medicaid as credit card without limit
Medicaid was created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” to provide health coverage to low-income and disabled Americans. The incremental expansion of the program is bleeding taxpayers and straining its ability to fulfill its historical purpose. Its scope needs to be scaled back. Read the full ...
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Read the latest on GOP's plan for healthcare reform
House GOP Embraces Markets in New Health Reform Plan
The House Republican Study Committee’s new budget proposal, which was released last month, offers fresh proof that the GOP hasn’t given up on sensible health reform. The proposal would balance the budget in just seven years, in part by undoing some of the most destructive elements of Obamacare. It also gives Americans ...
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Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
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Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
Commentary
Learn about America's physician shortage
We need all doctors on deck
Medical students recently celebrated “Match Day,” when aspiring doctors learn where they’ll be spending the next few years in residency to complete their training. America needs many more physicians — as many as 86,000 by 2036, according to projections released this week by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Policymakers can help plug that gap by easing ...
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If expanding quality health care access is California’s goal, Medi-Cal is not the solution
In January, California became the very first state to open its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, to every undocumented immigrant within its borders. Some 700,000 adults between the ages of 26 and 49 now qualify for publicly funded health coverage. It’s the fourth expansion of the program to undocumented immigrants, after kids became eligible in 2015, young ...
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As Obamacare Turns 14, It Continues To Bully U.S. Patients
March 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the signing ceremony, then-Vice President Joe Biden famously remarked, “This is a big fucking deal!” How right he was—much to the chagrin of patients, who have been stuck with the monstrosity that is ...
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Read the latest on California single payer health care proposals
California’s single-payer health care boondoggle is back and worse than ever
Karl Marx could have been forecasting the future of California when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedy is a state budget of $225.9 billion this year, with a budget deficit equivalent to nearly one-third of that figure – $73 billion, according to the latest estimate from the state ...
Read the latest on Biden's plans for affordable healthcare
Why Does ‘Unifier’ Biden Want to End Affordable Healthcare?
The Biden administration is about to effectively outlaw some of the most affordable health plans on the market and cast scores of people into the ranks of the uninsured. At issue is a rule the administration finalized last month. The rule will bar short-term health plans from lasting any more than three ...
Obamacare is the real ‘junk’ insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris extolled the president in a speech last month for “fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare” and lambasted right-wing “extremists” for “trying to take away healthcare coverage.” So it’s ironic that one of the Biden administration’s latest moves, a rule cutting the maximum duration of a short-term health plan from ...
Read the latest about Medicaid overreach
States use Medicaid as credit card without limit
Medicaid was created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” to provide health coverage to low-income and disabled Americans. The incremental expansion of the program is bleeding taxpayers and straining its ability to fulfill its historical purpose. Its scope needs to be scaled back. Read the full ...
Read the latest on GOP's plan for healthcare reform
House GOP Embraces Markets in New Health Reform Plan
The House Republican Study Committee’s new budget proposal, which was released last month, offers fresh proof that the GOP hasn’t given up on sensible health reform. The proposal would balance the budget in just seven years, in part by undoing some of the most destructive elements of Obamacare. It also gives Americans ...
Read the latest on the failures of Obamacare
President Biden Touts Obamacare As A Success. Many Patients Disagree.
President Biden is trying to make this November’s election a referendum on healthcare policy. Last month, his campaign initiated a national organizing blitz with former President Obama to galvanize support for the Affordable Care Act — and by extension, the incumbent president, who has continued to expand his Democratic predecessor’s signature program. More than 21 ...
Read about President Biden's new budget proposal on healthcare
Biden’s Healthcare Budget Enriches Insurers, Ignores Patients
Anyone clamoring for commonsense healthcare reform won’t find much to cheer about in President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal. The insurance industry, however, should be very pleased. Among other things, the budget makes Biden’s enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies permanent and calls for a new Medicaid-like program for people in states that haven’t ...
Learn about America's physician shortage
We need all doctors on deck
Medical students recently celebrated “Match Day,” when aspiring doctors learn where they’ll be spending the next few years in residency to complete their training. America needs many more physicians — as many as 86,000 by 2036, according to projections released this week by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Policymakers can help plug that gap by easing ...
If expanding quality health care access is California’s goal, Medi-Cal is not the solution
In January, California became the very first state to open its Medicaid program, called Medi-Cal, to every undocumented immigrant within its borders. Some 700,000 adults between the ages of 26 and 49 now qualify for publicly funded health coverage. It’s the fourth expansion of the program to undocumented immigrants, after kids became eligible in 2015, young ...
As Obamacare Turns 14, It Continues To Bully U.S. Patients
March 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At the signing ceremony, then-Vice President Joe Biden famously remarked, “This is a big fucking deal!” How right he was—much to the chagrin of patients, who have been stuck with the monstrosity that is ...
Read the latest on California single payer health care proposals
California’s single-payer health care boondoggle is back and worse than ever
Karl Marx could have been forecasting the future of California when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedy is a state budget of $225.9 billion this year, with a budget deficit equivalent to nearly one-third of that figure – $73 billion, according to the latest estimate from the state ...
