Obamacare
Commentary
One ObamaCare Mandate Just Got A Little Less Mandatory
The Trump administration is trying to make health insurance affordable again. That’s the aim of a regulation issued earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new rule would give states greater leeway over how they comply with ObamaCare’s essential health benefits, or EHB, mandate, which ...
Commentary
States Can’t Afford Medicaid Expansion — Neither Can Patients
This fall’s midterm election ballot just got a little longer in Utah. In mid-April, progressive activists announced that they’d gathered enough signatures to force a November referendum on Medicaid expansion. Utah isn’t the only red state flirting with extending free government health insurance to able-bodied, childless adults. Within weeks, activists in Idaho ...
Commentary
Don’t blame Trump for Obamacare’s failures
This year, premiums for mid-level “silver” plans on the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange rose 32 percent. President Trump deserves the lion’s share of the blame for this surge – at least according to a new report from the Urban Institute. The left-leaning think tank claims that uncertainty about the Trump administration’s ...
Commentary
Canada’s Health Care Is Abysmal. Why Would We Copy It?
Americans have come down with single-payer fever. A whole 59% now back a national health plan, according to a March 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—way up from the 33% reported by the Pew Research Center in summer 2017. But the American people don’t really understand what supporting a single-payer plan means. For ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Obamacare and Single-Payer on Bill Martinez Live
Listen PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the implosion of Obamacare and the march toward single-payer on the nationally-syndicated “Bill Martinez Live” radio program. The interview begins around the 47:00 mark.
Featured
Sally Pipes Receives Honorary Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
Pacific Research Institute President and CEO Sally C. Pipes delivered this year’s commencement address to the graduates of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. At the event, she received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree – the university’s highest honor. The prepared text of Pipes’ remarks are below: ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Fixing Obamacare on Focus Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxFwizezwU PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses how we can fix Obamacare’s fundamental flaws on “Focus Today” on The Dove TV.
Health Care
Sally Pipes on Pat Miller Program
PRI’S Sally Pipes discusses why bailouts won’t fix Obamacare’s fundamental flaws on the “Pat Miller Program” on WOWO Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana
California
Sally Pipes in CA Health News: Calif. Leads Nation In Pushing Back Against Trump Administration Health Policies
(Story also ran in Los Angeles Times) By Ana B. Ibarra These days, when the federal government turns in one direction, California veers in the other — and in the case of healthcare, it’s a sharp swerve. In the nation’s most populous state, lawmakers and other policymakers seemingly are not content ...
Commentary
Bailouts Won’t Fix Obamacare’s Fundamental Flaws
Senate Republicans are complaining about Obamacare again. But this time, they’re upset that the federal government isn’t spending enough money to prop up the health law’s insurance exchanges. Over a dozen GOP senators, nearly all of whom repeatedly campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare, tried to include a $60 billion ...
One ObamaCare Mandate Just Got A Little Less Mandatory
The Trump administration is trying to make health insurance affordable again. That’s the aim of a regulation issued earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The new rule would give states greater leeway over how they comply with ObamaCare’s essential health benefits, or EHB, mandate, which ...
States Can’t Afford Medicaid Expansion — Neither Can Patients
This fall’s midterm election ballot just got a little longer in Utah. In mid-April, progressive activists announced that they’d gathered enough signatures to force a November referendum on Medicaid expansion. Utah isn’t the only red state flirting with extending free government health insurance to able-bodied, childless adults. Within weeks, activists in Idaho ...
Don’t blame Trump for Obamacare’s failures
This year, premiums for mid-level “silver” plans on the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange rose 32 percent. President Trump deserves the lion’s share of the blame for this surge – at least according to a new report from the Urban Institute. The left-leaning think tank claims that uncertainty about the Trump administration’s ...
Canada’s Health Care Is Abysmal. Why Would We Copy It?
Americans have come down with single-payer fever. A whole 59% now back a national health plan, according to a March 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—way up from the 33% reported by the Pew Research Center in summer 2017. But the American people don’t really understand what supporting a single-payer plan means. For ...
Sally Pipes Talks Obamacare and Single-Payer on Bill Martinez Live
Listen PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the implosion of Obamacare and the march toward single-payer on the nationally-syndicated “Bill Martinez Live” radio program. The interview begins around the 47:00 mark.
Sally Pipes Receives Honorary Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
Pacific Research Institute President and CEO Sally C. Pipes delivered this year’s commencement address to the graduates of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. At the event, she received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree – the university’s highest honor. The prepared text of Pipes’ remarks are below: ...
Sally Pipes Talks Fixing Obamacare on Focus Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxFwizezwU PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses how we can fix Obamacare’s fundamental flaws on “Focus Today” on The Dove TV.
Sally Pipes on Pat Miller Program
PRI’S Sally Pipes discusses why bailouts won’t fix Obamacare’s fundamental flaws on the “Pat Miller Program” on WOWO Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sally Pipes in CA Health News: Calif. Leads Nation In Pushing Back Against Trump Administration Health Policies
(Story also ran in Los Angeles Times) By Ana B. Ibarra These days, when the federal government turns in one direction, California veers in the other — and in the case of healthcare, it’s a sharp swerve. In the nation’s most populous state, lawmakers and other policymakers seemingly are not content ...
Bailouts Won’t Fix Obamacare’s Fundamental Flaws
Senate Republicans are complaining about Obamacare again. But this time, they’re upset that the federal government isn’t spending enough money to prop up the health law’s insurance exchanges. Over a dozen GOP senators, nearly all of whom repeatedly campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare, tried to include a $60 billion ...
