Sally C. Pipes
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Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
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The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
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You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
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Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
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Disney Plus — for health care?
Over 10 million people have signed up for Disney Plus since it launched late last year. It’s easy to understand why. The streaming service gives subscribers access to hundreds of movies and televisions shows for just $7 a month — no cable plan required. Imagine if we applied the Disney ...
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Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
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Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
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American health care needs more competition, not less, to bring down prices
Here’s a newsflash: when businesses don’t need to compete for customers, they tend to raise prices. Yet the progressive remedy to perpetually escalating health-care costs is not to increase competition — it’s to eliminate it completely and put the government in charge of health care, via Medicare for All. There’s ample ...
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What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
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States Should Not Resurrect The Individual Mandate
Several states have resurrected the most-hated part of Obamacare—the individual mandate. Residents of California, Rhode Island, and Vermont must secure health insurance or pay a fine as of the beginning of this year. New Jersey and the District of Columbia implemented their mandates in January 2019. And Massachusetts’s state-level mandate has been in force since 2006. These mandates will fail to ...
Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
Disney Plus — for health care?
Over 10 million people have signed up for Disney Plus since it launched late last year. It’s easy to understand why. The streaming service gives subscribers access to hundreds of movies and televisions shows for just $7 a month — no cable plan required. Imagine if we applied the Disney ...
Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
American health care needs more competition, not less, to bring down prices
Here’s a newsflash: when businesses don’t need to compete for customers, they tend to raise prices. Yet the progressive remedy to perpetually escalating health-care costs is not to increase competition — it’s to eliminate it completely and put the government in charge of health care, via Medicare for All. There’s ample ...
What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
States Should Not Resurrect The Individual Mandate
Several states have resurrected the most-hated part of Obamacare—the individual mandate. Residents of California, Rhode Island, and Vermont must secure health insurance or pay a fine as of the beginning of this year. New Jersey and the District of Columbia implemented their mandates in January 2019. And Massachusetts’s state-level mandate has been in force since 2006. These mandates will fail to ...
