Obamacare
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Joe Biden’s ‘no’ on ‘Medicare-for-all’ is a ruse
Former Vice President Joe Biden has reiterated his opposition to any health reform plan that would scrap ObamaCare, including “Medicare-for-all.” According to the former vice president, “starting over” on health care would be “a sin.” Instead, Biden proposed expanding ObamaCare to include a “public option,” wherein individuals could buy a ...
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Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All
Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
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Medicaid expansion is a failure: Lots of spending, little benefit
Researchers from MIT and Harvard recently released a report concluding that Obamacare had a “clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care.” Nearly 16 million people gained coverage through Medicaid expansion while just over 11 million purchased insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges in the past year. But that ...
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
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Sally Pipes Talks Medicare-for-All with Mark Levin on Fox News
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News Channel. They discuss Obamacare, the push for Medicare-for-All/single-payer health care in Congress ...
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Resurrecting Obamacare’s most hated provision
Since Congress effectively ended the unpopular requirement that all Americans obtain health coverage by zeroing out the fine for noncompliance as of the first of this year, three states and the District of Columbia have enacted mandates of their own. The mandate that Massachusetts imposed in 2006 is now back ...
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Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas
More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
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Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing
Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
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Blocking Medicaid Work Requirements Is Unwise
Medicaid expansion in Kentucky and Arkansas could be on life support. Late last month, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the two states’ attempts to require able-bodied adults to work as a condition of receiving Medicaid coverage. Last week, the federal Department of ...
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Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster
On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
Joe Biden’s ‘no’ on ‘Medicare-for-all’ is a ruse
Former Vice President Joe Biden has reiterated his opposition to any health reform plan that would scrap ObamaCare, including “Medicare-for-all.” According to the former vice president, “starting over” on health care would be “a sin.” Instead, Biden proposed expanding ObamaCare to include a “public option,” wherein individuals could buy a ...
Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All
Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
Medicaid expansion is a failure: Lots of spending, little benefit
Researchers from MIT and Harvard recently released a report concluding that Obamacare had a “clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care.” Nearly 16 million people gained coverage through Medicaid expansion while just over 11 million purchased insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges in the past year. But that ...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s public option amounts to single-payer in disguise
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president. Thus far, his campaign has failed to catch on — he’s at 0.7 percent in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of Democratic primary polls. That may change, thanks to a bill he signed into law May 13 establishing the nation’s first public health insurance option. If ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare-for-All with Mark Levin on Fox News
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News Channel. They discuss Obamacare, the push for Medicare-for-All/single-payer health care in Congress ...
Resurrecting Obamacare’s most hated provision
Since Congress effectively ended the unpopular requirement that all Americans obtain health coverage by zeroing out the fine for noncompliance as of the first of this year, three states and the District of Columbia have enacted mandates of their own. The mandate that Massachusetts imposed in 2006 is now back ...
Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas
More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing
Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
Blocking Medicaid Work Requirements Is Unwise
Medicaid expansion in Kentucky and Arkansas could be on life support. Late last month, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the two states’ attempts to require able-bodied adults to work as a condition of receiving Medicaid coverage. Last week, the federal Department of ...
Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster
On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
