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Medicare for all means Medicare for none

Cheryl Gilarski has had enough health problems to last a lifetime. The 60-year-old Canadian recently shared her story with the CBC, Canada’s national broadcasting company. Her troubles began two decades ago, when doctors diagnosed her with an atrial flutter, a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. ...
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Private Insurance v. Medicare for All

Last week, I accompanied Sally Pipes to New York where she participated in a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared. For a decade now, Intelligence Squared has been hosting debates on all issues concerning public policy, from the Middle East, to driverless cars, to one of my recent favorites — is ...
Commentary

The real cost of ‘Medicare for All’ could be American lives

During the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for Medicare for All, saying, “We need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does.” Sanders is right to point out the similarities between his plan and government-run ...
Health Care

Watch Sally C. Pipes debate at Intelligence Squared in New York

Sally C. Pipes debates against the replacement of private insurance for Medicare for all at Intelligence Squared Debates in New York. Intelligence Squared Debates is non-partisan debate series that brings together experts to discuss pressing public policy issues. Ms. Pipes and her debate partner Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, ...
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Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients

Hospital behemoth Sutter Health—a non-profit organization in Northern California that has gradually acquired 24 hospitals and 5,000 physicians—will soon go to court to defend itself against allegations that it has violated the state’s antitrust laws. The plaintiffs claim that Sutter illegally pushed competitors out of the market and raised prices for ...
Health Care

Sally C. Pipes Talks Telemedicine on Freedom & Prosperity Radio

Freedom & Prosperity Radio’s Joe Thomas talks with Sally C. Pipes about how technology can make rural Americans healthier by embracing telemedicine and telehealth.  
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Sorry, Bernie Sanders, American health care is not ‘barbaric’ (and Canada’s system isn’t perfect)

The New York Times has detailed how Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to be fixated on Canada’s health care system. That fixation manifested itself again during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. It started with an illness that befell his mother while Sanders was in high school. His family struggled to pay for her ...
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Medicare’s finances are full of waste

A new report just uncovered millions of dollars in Medicare waste. The report, from the Office of the Inspector General at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, found that the agency paid for some of the same drugs twice, wasting $160 million. Unfortunately, this is only the latest example of ...
Drug Innovation

Sally C. Pipes Discusses Changing Drug Regulations on the Lars Larson Show

Sally C. Pipes joins the Lars Larson Show on KXL to discuss how new regulations will change drug prices in Canada and discourage drug innovation.
Health Care

Sally C. Pipes Comments on CA Medi-Cal expansion in CALmatters story

Democratic legislators are advancing a bill that aims to provide free health care to low-income undocumented seniors — an idea that they floated earlier this year, but which failed to make it into the state budget because of concerns over its cost. The bill, authored by Los Angeles Democrat Maria Elena ...
Commentary

Medicare for all means Medicare for none

Cheryl Gilarski has had enough health problems to last a lifetime. The 60-year-old Canadian recently shared her story with the CBC, Canada’s national broadcasting company. Her troubles began two decades ago, when doctors diagnosed her with an atrial flutter, a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. ...
Blog

Private Insurance v. Medicare for All

Last week, I accompanied Sally Pipes to New York where she participated in a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared. For a decade now, Intelligence Squared has been hosting debates on all issues concerning public policy, from the Middle East, to driverless cars, to one of my recent favorites — is ...
Commentary

The real cost of ‘Medicare for All’ could be American lives

During the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for Medicare for All, saying, “We need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does.” Sanders is right to point out the similarities between his plan and government-run ...
Health Care

Watch Sally C. Pipes debate at Intelligence Squared in New York

Sally C. Pipes debates against the replacement of private insurance for Medicare for all at Intelligence Squared Debates in New York. Intelligence Squared Debates is non-partisan debate series that brings together experts to discuss pressing public policy issues. Ms. Pipes and her debate partner Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, ...
Commentary

Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients

Hospital behemoth Sutter Health—a non-profit organization in Northern California that has gradually acquired 24 hospitals and 5,000 physicians—will soon go to court to defend itself against allegations that it has violated the state’s antitrust laws. The plaintiffs claim that Sutter illegally pushed competitors out of the market and raised prices for ...
Health Care

Sally C. Pipes Talks Telemedicine on Freedom & Prosperity Radio

Freedom & Prosperity Radio’s Joe Thomas talks with Sally C. Pipes about how technology can make rural Americans healthier by embracing telemedicine and telehealth.  
Commentary

Sorry, Bernie Sanders, American health care is not ‘barbaric’ (and Canada’s system isn’t perfect)

The New York Times has detailed how Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to be fixated on Canada’s health care system. That fixation manifested itself again during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. It started with an illness that befell his mother while Sanders was in high school. His family struggled to pay for her ...
Commentary

Medicare’s finances are full of waste

A new report just uncovered millions of dollars in Medicare waste. The report, from the Office of the Inspector General at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, found that the agency paid for some of the same drugs twice, wasting $160 million. Unfortunately, this is only the latest example of ...
Drug Innovation

Sally C. Pipes Discusses Changing Drug Regulations on the Lars Larson Show

Sally C. Pipes joins the Lars Larson Show on KXL to discuss how new regulations will change drug prices in Canada and discourage drug innovation.
Health Care

Sally C. Pipes Comments on CA Medi-Cal expansion in CALmatters story

Democratic legislators are advancing a bill that aims to provide free health care to low-income undocumented seniors — an idea that they floated earlier this year, but which failed to make it into the state budget because of concerns over its cost. The bill, authored by Los Angeles Democrat Maria Elena ...
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