Health Care
Commentary
Sally Pipes in Wall Street Journal: Single-Payer Health Care Isn’t Worth Waiting For
When Brian Day opened the Cambie Surgery Centre in 1996, he had a simple goal. Dr. Day, an orthopedic surgeon from Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted to provide timely, state-of-the-art medical care to Canadians who were unwilling to wait months—even years—for surgery they needed. Canada’s single-payer health-care system, known as Medicare, ...
Commentary
Trump’s AHP Rule Makes Health Care Affordable Again
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that could dramatically expand access to affordable health insurance. The rule would empower small businesses and self-employed individuals to band together to purchase coverage through “association health plans” or AHPs. They are exempt from many of Obamacare’s mandates, which have ...
Commentary
Free Marketers Should Use 2018 To Lay The Foundation For Medicare Reform
Earlier this month, President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and other senior Republicans huddled at Camp David to plan the party’s 2018 legislative agenda. Speaker Ryan argued for reforming Medicare. That “is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” he said. He’s right. Unfortunately, ...
Blog
For Brits, A Government Mandated New Year’s Resolution?
My husband, Charles Kesler, and I have spent the last several Christmas holidays in London. Each year, the news headlines about the National Health Service (single-payer British style) seem to get worse and worse. I often save the articles to use as fodder for my writings. Here are just a ...
Commentary
The Trump Administration Just Carved Another Chunk Out Of Obamacare
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a proposed rule that would enable as many as 11 million Americans to sidestep some of Obamacare’s premium-inflating coverage regulations. Specifically, the new rule allows small businesses and self-employed Americans within the same state or metropolitan area, including areas that extend across ...
Blog
The Importance of the Banal: The Case of the 340B Program
Most news coverage focuses on the grandiose – repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), or whether the U.S. should implement a single payer health care system. These existential questions matter of course – a lot. Click on the image above to read Wayne Winegarden’s study, “Addressing the Problems ...
Blog
CAPITAL IDEAS:The Next Step on the Slippery Slope Toward Single-Payer in California
Download the PDF California has declared itself a sanctuary state, where illegal immigrants are sheltered from federal law. The urge to “resist” President Trump runs so red hot in California that Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned two immigrants from Cambodia on Dec. 23 who otherwise would have been deported because they ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses Single-Payer on Sirius XM’s “Wilkow Majority”
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Healthcare Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss California’s single-payer legislation and other key 2018 health care issues on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot Radio. Click here to listen to the interview.
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses Latest with Health Care Reform on Ed Tyll Show
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Sally C. Pipes discuss the key health care policy issues of 2018 on the “Ed Tyll Show”. Click here to listen to the interview
Business & Economics
Fiscal Policy Needs Spending Reform, Not Budgetary Gimmicks: The case of the CREATES Act
Once again, budget negotiators in Washington D.C. are scrambling to put together a cogent spending plan for the federal government. And, once again, as part of this last-minute scramble, Congress is considering ad-hoc budget gimmicks to pay for spending instead of budgeting within the government’s affordability constraint. Or, as President ...
Sally Pipes in Wall Street Journal: Single-Payer Health Care Isn’t Worth Waiting For
When Brian Day opened the Cambie Surgery Centre in 1996, he had a simple goal. Dr. Day, an orthopedic surgeon from Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted to provide timely, state-of-the-art medical care to Canadians who were unwilling to wait months—even years—for surgery they needed. Canada’s single-payer health-care system, known as Medicare, ...
Trump’s AHP Rule Makes Health Care Affordable Again
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that could dramatically expand access to affordable health insurance. The rule would empower small businesses and self-employed individuals to band together to purchase coverage through “association health plans” or AHPs. They are exempt from many of Obamacare’s mandates, which have ...
Free Marketers Should Use 2018 To Lay The Foundation For Medicare Reform
Earlier this month, President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and other senior Republicans huddled at Camp David to plan the party’s 2018 legislative agenda. Speaker Ryan argued for reforming Medicare. That “is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” he said. He’s right. Unfortunately, ...
For Brits, A Government Mandated New Year’s Resolution?
My husband, Charles Kesler, and I have spent the last several Christmas holidays in London. Each year, the news headlines about the National Health Service (single-payer British style) seem to get worse and worse. I often save the articles to use as fodder for my writings. Here are just a ...
The Trump Administration Just Carved Another Chunk Out Of Obamacare
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a proposed rule that would enable as many as 11 million Americans to sidestep some of Obamacare’s premium-inflating coverage regulations. Specifically, the new rule allows small businesses and self-employed Americans within the same state or metropolitan area, including areas that extend across ...
The Importance of the Banal: The Case of the 340B Program
Most news coverage focuses on the grandiose – repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), or whether the U.S. should implement a single payer health care system. These existential questions matter of course – a lot. Click on the image above to read Wayne Winegarden’s study, “Addressing the Problems ...
CAPITAL IDEAS:The Next Step on the Slippery Slope Toward Single-Payer in California
Download the PDF California has declared itself a sanctuary state, where illegal immigrants are sheltered from federal law. The urge to “resist” President Trump runs so red hot in California that Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned two immigrants from Cambodia on Dec. 23 who otherwise would have been deported because they ...
Sally Pipes Discusses Single-Payer on Sirius XM’s “Wilkow Majority”
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Healthcare Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss California’s single-payer legislation and other key 2018 health care issues on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot Radio. Click here to listen to the interview.
Sally Pipes Discusses Latest with Health Care Reform on Ed Tyll Show
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Sally C. Pipes discuss the key health care policy issues of 2018 on the “Ed Tyll Show”. Click here to listen to the interview
Fiscal Policy Needs Spending Reform, Not Budgetary Gimmicks: The case of the CREATES Act
Once again, budget negotiators in Washington D.C. are scrambling to put together a cogent spending plan for the federal government. And, once again, as part of this last-minute scramble, Congress is considering ad-hoc budget gimmicks to pay for spending instead of budgeting within the government’s affordability constraint. Or, as President ...
