Health Care
Commentary
Doctors Should Oppose Single-Payer
A growing number of physicians now believe they have the cure for our nation’s health care maladies — a government-run, single-payer system. Fifty-six percent of doctors support single-payer health care, according to a new survey by physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins. Ten years ago, the numbers were almost reversed, with ...
Health Care
CBO: Repealing Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Would Reduce Deficit By $338 Billion
Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate would reduce the federal deficit by $338 billion in the next decade, according to a projection from the Congressional Budget Office. The individual mandate requires that Americans purchase health insurance or pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for not having coverage. A recent ...
Featured
Sally Pipes on Opinion Journal: Maine’s Medicaid Expansion
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Fissel on Opinion Journal to discuss state Medicaid expansion and the recent vote in Maine to expand entitlements.
Commentary
Bernie Sanders Goes To Canada And Turns A Blind Eye To Their Failing Health System
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., traveled to Canada in late October. His goal? To highlight the supposed benefits of that nation’s single-payer healthcare system. “How is it that here in Canada, they provide quality health care to all people … and they do it for half the cost?” he asked rhetorically. ...
Commentary
Single-Payer Is Failing Overseas — We Shouldn’t Adopt It Here
Two weeks ago, Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced a bill that would effectively allow some Americans to buy into Medicare. Other congressional Democrats favor an even more aggressive expansion of the program. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D- Mich., recently proposed dropping the program’s eligibility age from 65 ...
California
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Commentary
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Commentary
Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
Health Care
Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio. Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Commentary
Universal Coverage Hearings Begin In California Assembly
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with Capitol Public Radio News as Universal Coverage hearings begin in the California Assembly. She says drastically expanding public health care in California will stretch the state’s budget too thin. Listen here
Doctors Should Oppose Single-Payer
A growing number of physicians now believe they have the cure for our nation’s health care maladies — a government-run, single-payer system. Fifty-six percent of doctors support single-payer health care, according to a new survey by physician recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins. Ten years ago, the numbers were almost reversed, with ...
CBO: Repealing Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Would Reduce Deficit By $338 Billion
Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate would reduce the federal deficit by $338 billion in the next decade, according to a projection from the Congressional Budget Office. The individual mandate requires that Americans purchase health insurance or pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for not having coverage. A recent ...
Sally Pipes on Opinion Journal: Maine’s Medicaid Expansion
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Fissel on Opinion Journal to discuss state Medicaid expansion and the recent vote in Maine to expand entitlements.
Bernie Sanders Goes To Canada And Turns A Blind Eye To Their Failing Health System
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., traveled to Canada in late October. His goal? To highlight the supposed benefits of that nation’s single-payer healthcare system. “How is it that here in Canada, they provide quality health care to all people … and they do it for half the cost?” he asked rhetorically. ...
Single-Payer Is Failing Overseas — We Shouldn’t Adopt It Here
Two weeks ago, Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced a bill that would effectively allow some Americans to buy into Medicare. Other congressional Democrats favor an even more aggressive expansion of the program. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D- Mich., recently proposed dropping the program’s eligibility age from 65 ...
California’s Dangerous Dalliance with Single-Payer Continues
Californians better get comfortable. The wait time to see a doctor in the Golden State may be about to skyrocket. Last week, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and a select committee of representatives held two days of hearings in Sacramento on Senate Bill 562 — the Healthy California Act — ...
Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients
This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Americans hate waiting, so they’ll despise single-payer
What makes for an awful trip to the doctor? Waiting. Earlier this year, doctor-rating website Zocdoc took a look at its database of doctor reviews and found that long waits or appointment delays were the primary motivators of negative marks from patients. Given this aversion to waiting, it’s shocking that ...
Flyover: How can we get everyone necessary health care?
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy is a guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Flyover Radio. Host Kerri Miller discusses the issue: How can everyone get the necessary health care? Listen here
Universal Coverage Hearings Begin In California Assembly
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes talks with Capitol Public Radio News as Universal Coverage hearings begin in the California Assembly. She says drastically expanding public health care in California will stretch the state’s budget too thin. Listen here
