Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
Bernie Sanders Was Lucky He Didn’t Have His Heart Attack In A Single-Payer System
At the October 15 Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “Under the Medicare for all bill that I wrote, premiums are gone. Co-payments are gone. Deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone. We’re going to do better than the Canadians do, and that is what they have managed to ...
Commentary
Elizabeth Warren misleads Americans on harm and costs of ‘Medicare-for-all’
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to release her plan to pay for “Medicare-for-all.” Throughout her campaign, Warren has come under fire for refusing to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund her health care plan. Many of her fellow Democrats — including “Medicare-for-all” architect Bernie Sanders — ...
Commentary
Hey Bernie, it’s ‘Medicare for all’ that would be ‘cruel’ and ‘dysfunctional’
During last week’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the current U.S. healthcare system “dysfunctional” and “cruel.” Words like that are more appropriate descriptors of the government-run healthcare systems abroad that Sanders would like to import to the United States. Take Canada, the closest analog to Sanders’ vision of “Medicare ...
Commentary
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
Commentary
Blame unaffordable insurance on Obamacare
The number of uninsured Americans rose in 2018 for the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, according to recent research from the Census Bureau. Obamacare’s defenders were quick to blame the change on meddling by the Trump administration. But the real culprit is the law’s faulty ...
Commentary
Why we should say no to Medicare for All
This month Sen. Bernie Sanders was released from the hospital after suffering a heart attack. The Vermont senator, a Democratic presidential candidate, used his health scare to renew his call for “Medicare for All,” which he claims will ensure everyone has access to the kind of “great health care” he ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Mentioned in “Obamacare Reboots For Prescription Drugs Take Congress By Storm”
Everyone wants to live the American dream. But many of us also fear the American nightmare: An expensive medical problem that wipes out our financial security. Maybe it’s a trip to the emergency room, or a chronic illness that requires expensive prescription medicine. That shouldn’t destroy our lives. But to ...
Commentary
The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
Commentary
How Long Can Sen. Warren Dodge Questions About Medicare For All?
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren won’t answer a simple question about the healthcare plan she endorses, Medicare for All. Will it raise taxes on middle-class families? Pressed by moderators at the most recent televised debate last month, she refused to give a straight answer. She parried late-night host Stephen Colbert’s query away. ...
Commentary
Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All
Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
Bernie Sanders Was Lucky He Didn’t Have His Heart Attack In A Single-Payer System
At the October 15 Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “Under the Medicare for all bill that I wrote, premiums are gone. Co-payments are gone. Deductibles are gone. All out-of-pocket expenses are gone. We’re going to do better than the Canadians do, and that is what they have managed to ...
Elizabeth Warren misleads Americans on harm and costs of ‘Medicare-for-all’
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to release her plan to pay for “Medicare-for-all.” Throughout her campaign, Warren has come under fire for refusing to say whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to fund her health care plan. Many of her fellow Democrats — including “Medicare-for-all” architect Bernie Sanders — ...
Hey Bernie, it’s ‘Medicare for all’ that would be ‘cruel’ and ‘dysfunctional’
During last week’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders called the current U.S. healthcare system “dysfunctional” and “cruel.” Words like that are more appropriate descriptors of the government-run healthcare systems abroad that Sanders would like to import to the United States. Take Canada, the closest analog to Sanders’ vision of “Medicare ...
Mayor Pete’s Medicare for All Who Want It plan as flawed as Medicare for All
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in hot water with progressives. At last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, he attacked Senator Elizabeth Warren for refusing to say whether her preferred brand of health reform, Medicare for All, would require middle-class tax hikes. Soon after, a year-old tweet from the South Bend, ...
Blame unaffordable insurance on Obamacare
The number of uninsured Americans rose in 2018 for the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, according to recent research from the Census Bureau. Obamacare’s defenders were quick to blame the change on meddling by the Trump administration. But the real culprit is the law’s faulty ...
Why we should say no to Medicare for All
This month Sen. Bernie Sanders was released from the hospital after suffering a heart attack. The Vermont senator, a Democratic presidential candidate, used his health scare to renew his call for “Medicare for All,” which he claims will ensure everyone has access to the kind of “great health care” he ...
Sally Pipes Mentioned in “Obamacare Reboots For Prescription Drugs Take Congress By Storm”
Everyone wants to live the American dream. But many of us also fear the American nightmare: An expensive medical problem that wipes out our financial security. Maybe it’s a trip to the emergency room, or a chronic illness that requires expensive prescription medicine. That shouldn’t destroy our lives. But to ...
The Senate’s New Drug Bill Is Socialism Lite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a radical new plan to let the federal government set drug prices. In the hopes of combating this bill, many Republicans are holding up Senator Chuck Grassley’s Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act as a more moderate alternative. That’s a mistake. While Grassley’s bill isn’t as ...
How Long Can Sen. Warren Dodge Questions About Medicare For All?
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren won’t answer a simple question about the healthcare plan she endorses, Medicare for All. Will it raise taxes on middle-class families? Pressed by moderators at the most recent televised debate last month, she refused to give a straight answer. She parried late-night host Stephen Colbert’s query away. ...
Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All
Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
