Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
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Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 6, 2024
Commentary
Learn more about California's doctor shortage
California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage
California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently reside. California’s leaders are trying to conjure up more physicians. ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 6, 2024
Commentary
Learn more about how Harris & Trump differ on health care
How Harris and Trump compare on healthcare
People head to the polls on Tuesday to select the next occupant of the White House. Among the first big decisions the winner will have to make is whether to extend generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges. Those subsidies are set to expire at the end of ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 4, 2024
Commentary
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A Harris administration would expand Obamacare and Biden’s healthcare agenda
The Harris-Walz campaign summarizes its healthcare platform as “a new way forward.” But in reality, it’s a continuation and expansion of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous healthcare agenda. Some parts are literally copied-and-pasted from the now dead Biden campaign’s website. Other parts reveal that Harris’s ambitions are even more aggressively left ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 1, 2024
Commentary
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The Obamacare Proponents Who Cried Wolf
Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 1, 2024
Commentary
Learn more about Harris' single payer support
Will Harris offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants? Look no further than California
Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 31, 2024
Commentary
Learn more about how Harris' plan might promote healthcare fraud
Will Harris’ Promises of New Era for Healthcare Invite Fraud?
For a former prosecutor and Calif. Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris sure seems to have a laissez-faire attitude toward fraud. In the race to enroll as many Americans as possible in Medicaid and in Obamacare exchange plans, the Biden-Harris administration has looked the other way as millions of Americans receive publicly ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 29, 2024
Commentary
Learn more about how competition can lower premiums
Competition Is The Cure For Rising Health Insurance Premiums
The presidential election is just a week away. And the rising prices of many products and services are on voters’ minds. Just over 40% of Americans say inflation is their biggest concern heading into November, according to a recent survey. In few markets are rising prices more apparent than in ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 28, 2024
Commentary
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Harris’s Home Care Promises Unworkable, Unwise
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s new proposal to provide subsidized at-home care for seniors through Medicare has received a warm reception from many academics and advocates for the elderly. But the likely cost of this new plan — not just to taxpayers but to the health of patients both present and future ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 22, 2024
Commentary
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Medicare should not cover at-home care
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care for even one year would cost Medicare $40 billion. The program ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 21, 2024
Learn more about policies hurting patients
Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally ...
Learn more about California's doctor shortage
California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage
California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently reside. California’s leaders are trying to conjure up more physicians. ...
Learn more about how Harris & Trump differ on health care
How Harris and Trump compare on healthcare
People head to the polls on Tuesday to select the next occupant of the White House. Among the first big decisions the winner will have to make is whether to extend generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through the exchanges. Those subsidies are set to expire at the end of ...
Learn more about Obamacare's failures
A Harris administration would expand Obamacare and Biden’s healthcare agenda
The Harris-Walz campaign summarizes its healthcare platform as “a new way forward.” But in reality, it’s a continuation and expansion of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous healthcare agenda. Some parts are literally copied-and-pasted from the now dead Biden campaign’s website. Other parts reveal that Harris’s ambitions are even more aggressively left ...
Learn more about Obamacare's failures
The Obamacare Proponents Who Cried Wolf
Democrats just unveiled legislation that would make permanent the generous pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. Illinois representative Lauren Underwood (D.), the bill’s lead sponsor in the House of Representatives, said that extending the subsidies beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of next year would mean ...
Learn more about Harris' single payer support
Will Harris offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants? Look no further than California
Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants ...
Learn more about how Harris' plan might promote healthcare fraud
Will Harris’ Promises of New Era for Healthcare Invite Fraud?
For a former prosecutor and Calif. Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris sure seems to have a laissez-faire attitude toward fraud. In the race to enroll as many Americans as possible in Medicaid and in Obamacare exchange plans, the Biden-Harris administration has looked the other way as millions of Americans receive publicly ...
Learn more about how competition can lower premiums
Competition Is The Cure For Rising Health Insurance Premiums
The presidential election is just a week away. And the rising prices of many products and services are on voters’ minds. Just over 40% of Americans say inflation is their biggest concern heading into November, according to a recent survey. In few markets are rising prices more apparent than in ...
Learn more about how price controls hurt patients
Harris’s Home Care Promises Unworkable, Unwise
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s new proposal to provide subsidized at-home care for seniors through Medicare has received a warm reception from many academics and advocates for the elderly. But the likely cost of this new plan — not just to taxpayers but to the health of patients both present and future ...
Learn more about escalating healthcare costs
Medicare should not cover at-home care
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care for even one year would cost Medicare $40 billion. The program ...