Health Care
Commentary
Why Healthcare Reform May Not Be Dead Yet
Healthcare reform may not be dead yet in this country. Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives green-lit three bills that would put money back in the pockets of patients. Now it’s up to the Senate to act. What better way to close out the summer than to correct ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 29, 2018
Blog
What We’re Watching – What Will You Bid?
Play everyone’s favorite game show “What Will You Bid?” to learn about the broken competitive bidding process for providing durable medical equipment to Medicare patients. Read the new study by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden to learn about free-market reforms to fix this broken process.
Pacific Research Institute
August 24, 2018
California
California’s War on Affordable Health Insurance
“A crisis of affordability.” That’s what is plaguing the individual health insurance market, according to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The culprit? Obamacare. The health law’s regulations have steadily driven up the cost of insurance. Between 2013 — the year before most of Obamacare’s ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 23, 2018
Blog
Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So
The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
Kerry Jackson
August 22, 2018
Commentary
Providing better deals for health coverage
More than a dozen state attorneys general just sued the Department of Labor over a new rule that makes it easier for small businesses and self-employed individuals to form “association health plans.” AHPs enable these firms and sole proprietors to band together to negotiate with insurers for better deals for ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 20, 2018
Commentary
Single-Payer Progressives Lie Their Way to Victory
November’s midterm elections are just around the corner. This fall, Democratic congressional candidates are betting the farm — or shall we say the House — on government-run health care. The crop of Democrats eyeing the presidency in 2020, meanwhile, is similarly united behind a government takeover of the U.S. healthcare ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 20, 2018
Drug Importation
Sally Pipes in Health Care News Article on Drug Imports
Trump Administration Considers Allowing Some Drug Imports By Christopher Talgo U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a working group to weigh the risks and rewards of drug importation, which is currently banned in the United States. The ...
Pacific Research Institute
August 17, 2018
Commentary
Trump’s Health Reform Fixes Obama’s Mandate Mess
Open enrollment season for health insurance is just around the corner. Starting November 1, Americans who don’t get coverage through work or the government will be able to sign up for health plans that take effect in 2019. Fewer will do so this year than last, according to a recent ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 16, 2018
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Single-Payer on Lars Larson Show
Listen to PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith in Health Care Studies Sally C. Pipes discuss her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care and the problems with Canada’s single-payer health care system on the Lars Larson Show. The interview begins at the 54:20 mark.
Pacific Research Institute
August 15, 2018
Blog
An Update on Single-Payer
With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues. Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever recorded. But as Seema Verma, Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 15, 2018
Why Healthcare Reform May Not Be Dead Yet
Healthcare reform may not be dead yet in this country. Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives green-lit three bills that would put money back in the pockets of patients. Now it’s up to the Senate to act. What better way to close out the summer than to correct ...
What We’re Watching – What Will You Bid?
Play everyone’s favorite game show “What Will You Bid?” to learn about the broken competitive bidding process for providing durable medical equipment to Medicare patients. Read the new study by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden to learn about free-market reforms to fix this broken process.
California’s War on Affordable Health Insurance
“A crisis of affordability.” That’s what is plaguing the individual health insurance market, according to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The culprit? Obamacare. The health law’s regulations have steadily driven up the cost of insurance. Between 2013 — the year before most of Obamacare’s ...
Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So
The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
Providing better deals for health coverage
More than a dozen state attorneys general just sued the Department of Labor over a new rule that makes it easier for small businesses and self-employed individuals to form “association health plans.” AHPs enable these firms and sole proprietors to band together to negotiate with insurers for better deals for ...
Single-Payer Progressives Lie Their Way to Victory
November’s midterm elections are just around the corner. This fall, Democratic congressional candidates are betting the farm — or shall we say the House — on government-run health care. The crop of Democrats eyeing the presidency in 2020, meanwhile, is similarly united behind a government takeover of the U.S. healthcare ...
Sally Pipes in Health Care News Article on Drug Imports
Trump Administration Considers Allowing Some Drug Imports By Christopher Talgo U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a working group to weigh the risks and rewards of drug importation, which is currently banned in the United States. The ...
Trump’s Health Reform Fixes Obama’s Mandate Mess
Open enrollment season for health insurance is just around the corner. Starting November 1, Americans who don’t get coverage through work or the government will be able to sign up for health plans that take effect in 2019. Fewer will do so this year than last, according to a recent ...
Sally Pipes Talks Single-Payer on Lars Larson Show
Listen to PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith in Health Care Studies Sally C. Pipes discuss her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care and the problems with Canada’s single-payer health care system on the Lars Larson Show. The interview begins at the 54:20 mark.
An Update on Single-Payer
With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues. Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever recorded. But as Seema Verma, Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...