Obamacare
Commentary
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 3, 2010
Commentary
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
Sally C. Pipes
October 1, 2010
Commentary
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 27, 2010
Commentary
SARAH PALIN: Lies, Damn Lies — Obamacare 6 Months Later, It’s Time to Take Back the 20!
It’s now six months since President Obama took control of one-sixth of the private sector economy with his health care “reform,” and the first changes to our health care system come into effect on Thursday, September 23. Despite overwhelming public dislike of the bill, we were told that D.C. knows ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
September 24, 2010
Commentary
Interview with Sally Pipes on ObamaCare at Six Months
“I would say the mainstream media, of course, always likes to increase the role of government in our lives, and Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe that government can make decisions for the American people better than we can make for ourselves.” AIM recently interviewed Sally Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Roger Aronoff
September 24, 2010
California
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
One of President Reagan’s most famous quotes was his appeal to Soviet Communist Party Chairman Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” Governor Schwarzenegger has a similar opportunity to prevent a wall that limits people’s freedom from being built in the first place. ObamaCare relies on states to implement most of ...
John R. Graham
September 22, 2010
Health Care
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
Doug Bandow
September 14, 2010
Commentary
State health exchange will slash, not boost, choice
Anticipating repeal, states are using a variety of tactics to oppose Obamacare, but in California the Legislature is trying to rush it into existence. That should concern every Californian, especially Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unless repealed, Obamacare will require every American not dependent on government health plans like Medicaid or Medicare, ...
John R. Graham
September 9, 2010
Health Care
ObamaCare Will Dramatically Reduce Choice in Private Insurance
Key Points The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has just issued regulations that will reduce choice in health insurance for individuals and businesses. These regulations focus on the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), a misleading bookkeeping concept irrelevant to peoples’ choice of health insurance. To succeed in reducing choice, ObamaCare ...
John R. Graham
September 9, 2010
Health Care
The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what’s really on the way courtesy of the recent health care overhaul: higher costs, decreased access to care, and the looming spectre of a single-payer system ...
Pacific Research Institute
September 9, 2010
Avastin: Helpful drug or too risky, expensive?
In an “Urgent Submission on Breast Cancer” to newspaper editors, Sally C. Pipes (president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Truth About Obamacare”) outlined only the positive parts of the Avastin story and implied that saving money was the real reason for this recommendation. She ...
Americans’ healthy dislike for Obamacare
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul maintained throughout the summer that the law was slowly, but surely, growing in popularity. “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently said. Public opinion data tell ...
The Era of Rationing Begins
Supporters of health reform said it would never happen. Maybe they got caught up in their own rhetoric. Maybe they just didn’t want to believe it was possible. But rationing in America has started. By December, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to revoke approval of the drug Avastin ...
SARAH PALIN: Lies, Damn Lies — Obamacare 6 Months Later, It’s Time to Take Back the 20!
It’s now six months since President Obama took control of one-sixth of the private sector economy with his health care “reform,” and the first changes to our health care system come into effect on Thursday, September 23. Despite overwhelming public dislike of the bill, we were told that D.C. knows ...
Interview with Sally Pipes on ObamaCare at Six Months
“I would say the mainstream media, of course, always likes to increase the role of government in our lives, and Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe that government can make decisions for the American people better than we can make for ourselves.” AIM recently interviewed Sally Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
One of President Reagan’s most famous quotes was his appeal to Soviet Communist Party Chairman Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” Governor Schwarzenegger has a similar opportunity to prevent a wall that limits people’s freedom from being built in the first place. ObamaCare relies on states to implement most of ...
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
State health exchange will slash, not boost, choice
Anticipating repeal, states are using a variety of tactics to oppose Obamacare, but in California the Legislature is trying to rush it into existence. That should concern every Californian, especially Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unless repealed, Obamacare will require every American not dependent on government health plans like Medicaid or Medicare, ...
ObamaCare Will Dramatically Reduce Choice in Private Insurance
Key Points The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has just issued regulations that will reduce choice in health insurance for individuals and businesses. These regulations focus on the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), a misleading bookkeeping concept irrelevant to peoples’ choice of health insurance. To succeed in reducing choice, ObamaCare ...
The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what’s really on the way courtesy of the recent health care overhaul: higher costs, decreased access to care, and the looming spectre of a single-payer system ...