Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Obama Admits… Biden & Bernie’s Socialist-Democrat Goals Are the Same
In a recent interview, former President Barack Obama admitted something Democrats have been trying to deny or keep secret for months. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’ goals, they’re not that different from a 40,000-foot level,” he said. And he’s right – Biden may have won ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 8, 2020
Commentary
Remember this at VP debate, Kamala Harris is no moderate on health care
On the same day last month both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris suffered the same revealing slip of the tongue. They each referred to the coming “Harris-Biden administration.” Let’s see if Harris makes the same gaffe this week when she debates Vice President Mike Pence in Utah on Wednesday night. ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 7, 2020
Commentary
What Sanders Gets Wrong About Biden’s ‘Centrism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is none too pleased with the direction of Joe Biden’s bid for the White House. According to a report from earlier this month, Sen. Sanders has privately criticized the Democratic presidential nominee for being too moderate and failing to emphasize the progressive policies at the heart ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 5, 2020
Commentary
Import German drug prices to the United States? Nein, danke
President Trump recently issued a blitz of executive orders in an attempt to fulfill his promise to reduce drug prices. One of those orders would put in place a “cure” far worse than the disease. The order in question establishes foreign reference pricing, whereby the federal government ties its reimbursement rates for ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 5, 2020
Commentary
Massive coverage losses are greatly exaggerated
Roughly 6.2 million U.S. workers lost employer-sponsored insurance coverage between February and July. Factor in family members and dependents, and that number increases to 12 million people. Estimates like this underpin a narrative that large segments of the country are unable to get medical care in the midst of the ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 29, 2020
Commentary
Industry Voices—Surprise! There’s a better fix for surprise bills
Federal health officials are trying to reignite the debate over surprise medical bills. In a report issued earlier this summer, the Department of Health and Human Services urged Congress to do something about surprise bills, saying the practice represents a market failure that cannot be corrected on its own. The ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Commentary
Cleveland Is Trump’s Best Chance To Reshape The Healthcare Conversation
This week, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will square off in Cleveland for the first of three debates. The two candidates will have no shortage of disagreements to air, but one subject in particular is sure to receive significant attention—health care. From the pandemic response to the ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Commentary
Supreme Court and ObamaCare – here’s what to expect if law is not upheld
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suddenly made the demise of ObamaCare a possibility. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case challenging the law’s constitutionality, California v. Texas, on Nov. 10, just a week after the election. Justice Ginsburg was a sure vote to uphold ObamaCare. Her replacement may not be. What would a ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Commentary
How Trump can trounce Biden on healthcare
In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, healthcare is sure to be one of the chief topics of conversation, especially now that a newly constituted Supreme Court could strike down Obamacare, effective perhaps as early as next year. At the debate, Joe Biden will almost certainly go after President Trump ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Coronavirus
The Morning Rush Interviews Sally C. Pipes on COVID-19 Reopenings
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, talks about how shutdowns and shelter in place orders from COVID-19 and the coronavirus are impacting elective procedures and screenings for cancer. Pipes points out that the tremendous delays in elective health care could result in an increase in cancer deaths. Pipes also ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 22, 2020
Obama Admits… Biden & Bernie’s Socialist-Democrat Goals Are the Same
In a recent interview, former President Barack Obama admitted something Democrats have been trying to deny or keep secret for months. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’ goals, they’re not that different from a 40,000-foot level,” he said. And he’s right – Biden may have won ...
Remember this at VP debate, Kamala Harris is no moderate on health care
On the same day last month both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris suffered the same revealing slip of the tongue. They each referred to the coming “Harris-Biden administration.” Let’s see if Harris makes the same gaffe this week when she debates Vice President Mike Pence in Utah on Wednesday night. ...
What Sanders Gets Wrong About Biden’s ‘Centrism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is none too pleased with the direction of Joe Biden’s bid for the White House. According to a report from earlier this month, Sen. Sanders has privately criticized the Democratic presidential nominee for being too moderate and failing to emphasize the progressive policies at the heart ...
Import German drug prices to the United States? Nein, danke
President Trump recently issued a blitz of executive orders in an attempt to fulfill his promise to reduce drug prices. One of those orders would put in place a “cure” far worse than the disease. The order in question establishes foreign reference pricing, whereby the federal government ties its reimbursement rates for ...
Massive coverage losses are greatly exaggerated
Roughly 6.2 million U.S. workers lost employer-sponsored insurance coverage between February and July. Factor in family members and dependents, and that number increases to 12 million people. Estimates like this underpin a narrative that large segments of the country are unable to get medical care in the midst of the ...
Industry Voices—Surprise! There’s a better fix for surprise bills
Federal health officials are trying to reignite the debate over surprise medical bills. In a report issued earlier this summer, the Department of Health and Human Services urged Congress to do something about surprise bills, saying the practice represents a market failure that cannot be corrected on its own. The ...
Cleveland Is Trump’s Best Chance To Reshape The Healthcare Conversation
This week, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will square off in Cleveland for the first of three debates. The two candidates will have no shortage of disagreements to air, but one subject in particular is sure to receive significant attention—health care. From the pandemic response to the ...
Supreme Court and ObamaCare – here’s what to expect if law is not upheld
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suddenly made the demise of ObamaCare a possibility. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case challenging the law’s constitutionality, California v. Texas, on Nov. 10, just a week after the election. Justice Ginsburg was a sure vote to uphold ObamaCare. Her replacement may not be. What would a ...
How Trump can trounce Biden on healthcare
In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, healthcare is sure to be one of the chief topics of conversation, especially now that a newly constituted Supreme Court could strike down Obamacare, effective perhaps as early as next year. At the debate, Joe Biden will almost certainly go after President Trump ...
The Morning Rush Interviews Sally C. Pipes on COVID-19 Reopenings
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, talks about how shutdowns and shelter in place orders from COVID-19 and the coronavirus are impacting elective procedures and screenings for cancer. Pipes points out that the tremendous delays in elective health care could result in an increase in cancer deaths. Pipes also ...