Health Care
Health Care
Sally Pipes on The Conservative Commandos
Listen to “#CONSERVATIVE COMMANDOS #ClaudiaRosett #SallyPipes #CarlHigbie #PresidentTrump #POTUS #VPOTUS #KimJongUn #Single-Payer #GinaHaspel 3-14-18” on Spreaker. PRI’s Sally C. Pipes discusses her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care with Rick Trader and Sharron Angle on “The Conservative Commandos” radio program. Sally’s interview begins at the 64 minute ...
Commentary
The Constitution May Finally Catch Up With Obamacare
Obamacare’s future is once again in jeopardy, thanks to one of the law’s most stubborn opponents — the U.S. Constitution. Twenty states are suing the federal government in Texas on the grounds that, since Congress zeroed-out the penalty for the individual mandate, the law is no longer constitutional. They’re right. ...
Commentary
If You Like Waiting Hours For An Ambulance, You Might Like Single-Payer Health Care
“Hello, 911? I think I’m having a heart attack.” “We’ll send an ambulance to your address right away. It’ll be there in four hours. Good luck.” That’s the present reality for patients captive to the United Kingdom’s government-run, single-payer health care system. And it’s apparently what the progressives who have ...
Blog
The View from Sacramento
PRI meets with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Dahle at the State Capitol. Last week, PRI’s team was in Sacramento for our annual “Legislative Day” at the State Capitol. Every year, we meet with legislators, key staff, and leaders in the Capitol Community to discuss our work on state issues, get ...
Commentary
Medicare Drug Benefit is Weakened by Congressional Budget Deal
Congress has undermined the Medicare drug benefit that millions of older Americans depend on – one of the few federal health care programs that’s working well. The two-year federal budget deal passed recently shifts more of the program’s costs onto drug manufacturers starting in 2020. In the process, the change ...
Commentary
Insurers Get Healthy
The Senate budget deal contains a health care provision that many are touting as a victory for American seniors. The reform aims to shift more of the Medicare Part D drug by costs to drug companies. But that provision is a gift to insurers — not to patients. The policy ...
Commentary
What ‘United States of Care’ Truly Cares About
There’s a new kid on the health policy block. A deep-pocketed, nominally bipartisan advocacy group called United States of Care — which counts former governors, senators, and top health policy officials among its members — launched earlier this month to great media acclaim. Since its debut, the group hasn’t said much. Its ...
Book
Sally Pipes Releases New Book The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care
As the political drumbeat for single-payer health care rises in Sacramento, other states around the country, and in Washington, DC, PRI’s Sally Pipes today released a new book that makes the case for why single-payer health care would be a disaster for all Americans, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health ...
Health Care
Flu Rages as FDA Approval Process Delays New Cure
As one of the worst influenza outbreaks in recent history continues to spread in the United States, the release of a new drug that could quickly cure the illness is being delayed by Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) overly cumbersome approval process. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director ...
Commentary
Trump’s Short-Term Health Plans Will Legalize Affordable Care
The Trump administration is preparing to offer Americans an affordable alternative to the high-cost coverage on Obamacare’s exchanges by overturning one of the previous administration’s most burdensome regulations. On February 20, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule based on President Trump’s October 12, 2017, Executive ...
Sally Pipes on The Conservative Commandos
Listen to “#CONSERVATIVE COMMANDOS #ClaudiaRosett #SallyPipes #CarlHigbie #PresidentTrump #POTUS #VPOTUS #KimJongUn #Single-Payer #GinaHaspel 3-14-18” on Spreaker. PRI’s Sally C. Pipes discusses her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care with Rick Trader and Sharron Angle on “The Conservative Commandos” radio program. Sally’s interview begins at the 64 minute ...
The Constitution May Finally Catch Up With Obamacare
Obamacare’s future is once again in jeopardy, thanks to one of the law’s most stubborn opponents — the U.S. Constitution. Twenty states are suing the federal government in Texas on the grounds that, since Congress zeroed-out the penalty for the individual mandate, the law is no longer constitutional. They’re right. ...
If You Like Waiting Hours For An Ambulance, You Might Like Single-Payer Health Care
“Hello, 911? I think I’m having a heart attack.” “We’ll send an ambulance to your address right away. It’ll be there in four hours. Good luck.” That’s the present reality for patients captive to the United Kingdom’s government-run, single-payer health care system. And it’s apparently what the progressives who have ...
The View from Sacramento
PRI meets with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Dahle at the State Capitol. Last week, PRI’s team was in Sacramento for our annual “Legislative Day” at the State Capitol. Every year, we meet with legislators, key staff, and leaders in the Capitol Community to discuss our work on state issues, get ...
Medicare Drug Benefit is Weakened by Congressional Budget Deal
Congress has undermined the Medicare drug benefit that millions of older Americans depend on – one of the few federal health care programs that’s working well. The two-year federal budget deal passed recently shifts more of the program’s costs onto drug manufacturers starting in 2020. In the process, the change ...
Insurers Get Healthy
The Senate budget deal contains a health care provision that many are touting as a victory for American seniors. The reform aims to shift more of the Medicare Part D drug by costs to drug companies. But that provision is a gift to insurers — not to patients. The policy ...
What ‘United States of Care’ Truly Cares About
There’s a new kid on the health policy block. A deep-pocketed, nominally bipartisan advocacy group called United States of Care — which counts former governors, senators, and top health policy officials among its members — launched earlier this month to great media acclaim. Since its debut, the group hasn’t said much. Its ...
Sally Pipes Releases New Book The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care
As the political drumbeat for single-payer health care rises in Sacramento, other states around the country, and in Washington, DC, PRI’s Sally Pipes today released a new book that makes the case for why single-payer health care would be a disaster for all Americans, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health ...
Flu Rages as FDA Approval Process Delays New Cure
As one of the worst influenza outbreaks in recent history continues to spread in the United States, the release of a new drug that could quickly cure the illness is being delayed by Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) overly cumbersome approval process. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director ...
Trump’s Short-Term Health Plans Will Legalize Affordable Care
The Trump administration is preparing to offer Americans an affordable alternative to the high-cost coverage on Obamacare’s exchanges by overturning one of the previous administration’s most burdensome regulations. On February 20, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule based on President Trump’s October 12, 2017, Executive ...
