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Sally Pipes Talk Health Care With Chris Salcedo
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joined Chris Salcedo to talk about the demise of the Senate GOP’s Obamacare repeal and replace bill. Click here to listen to the interview.
Health Care
Americans Aren’t Buying What Obamacare Is Selling
A new Gallup poll provides yet more evidence that Obamacare is collapsing. According to the survey, the share of people without health insurance jumped to 11.7 percent in the second quarter of this year — up from 10.9 percent at the end of 2016. Obamacare is spending billions of taxpayer ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses Latest Senate GOP Health Care Plan on Ed Morrissey Show
Listen to PRI’s Sally C. Pipes discuss the latest version of the Senate Republican health care plan on the Ed Morrissey Show. Click here to listen to the interview.
Health Care
Which Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance Or Medicaid?
An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for it. Crux of the issue is the more efficient system: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) or Medicaid. Sally Pipes, president of the ...
Health Care
Modesto Man Thanks The ACA For Flimsy Health Plan And Sky-High Insurance Rates
Bruce Pardini of Modesto refers to his health insurance plan as “this plastic card in my pocket”, which costs almost $1,000 a month. It has a $6,500 annual deductible and other costly terms such as a $75 copay for physician visits. Pardini is among the middle class voices that are ...
Commentary
If GOP Fails To Repeal And Replace Obamacare, Single-Payer Could Be Next
It’s no secret that the cost of failure in the GOP healthcare reform effort will be that Obamacare remains on the books indefinitely. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted that he might be willing to pay that cost. He said that Republicans would work with Democrats to produce ...
Commentary
Declaring Independence From Obamacare
Republican senators are hashing out their health reform bill over the July 4 recess. When they return on July 10, let’s hope they’ve written a bill that looks less like Obamacare Lite and more like a genuine market-based alternative to repeal and replace the failing health law. Anyone who believes ...
California
Is The Horror Story Of Single-payer Health Care Coming Soon To A Theater Near You?
Hollywood loves a sequel. This summer, studios are releasing a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, a third edition of the Despicable Me franchise, and yet another Spiderman. But warmed-over ideas are not the sole province of the film industry. Progressive lawmakers are launching a reboot of their own — Single-Payer ...
Health Care
Repealing Obamacare With No Replacement? Still A Terrible Idea
With Senate Republicans struggling to agree on a proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, President Trump urged them Friday morning just to repeal the dang thing and worry about replacing it later. That would be the same President Trump who insisted earlier this year that repealing with no plan ...
California
Ignoring Single-Payer’s Siren Song
Government-run, single-payer health care is apparently back in vogue. The California state Senate recently green-lit a bill that would abolish private insurance and force all residents — including those currently on Medicare and the state’s version of Medicaid, Medi-Cal — into a new government-run plan. The bill has been put ...
Sally Pipes Talk Health Care With Chris Salcedo
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joined Chris Salcedo to talk about the demise of the Senate GOP’s Obamacare repeal and replace bill. Click here to listen to the interview.
Americans Aren’t Buying What Obamacare Is Selling
A new Gallup poll provides yet more evidence that Obamacare is collapsing. According to the survey, the share of people without health insurance jumped to 11.7 percent in the second quarter of this year — up from 10.9 percent at the end of 2016. Obamacare is spending billions of taxpayer ...
Sally Pipes Discusses Latest Senate GOP Health Care Plan on Ed Morrissey Show
Listen to PRI’s Sally C. Pipes discuss the latest version of the Senate Republican health care plan on the Ed Morrissey Show. Click here to listen to the interview.
Which Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance Or Medicaid?
An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for it. Crux of the issue is the more efficient system: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) or Medicaid. Sally Pipes, president of the ...
Modesto Man Thanks The ACA For Flimsy Health Plan And Sky-High Insurance Rates
Bruce Pardini of Modesto refers to his health insurance plan as “this plastic card in my pocket”, which costs almost $1,000 a month. It has a $6,500 annual deductible and other costly terms such as a $75 copay for physician visits. Pardini is among the middle class voices that are ...
If GOP Fails To Repeal And Replace Obamacare, Single-Payer Could Be Next
It’s no secret that the cost of failure in the GOP healthcare reform effort will be that Obamacare remains on the books indefinitely. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hinted that he might be willing to pay that cost. He said that Republicans would work with Democrats to produce ...
Declaring Independence From Obamacare
Republican senators are hashing out their health reform bill over the July 4 recess. When they return on July 10, let’s hope they’ve written a bill that looks less like Obamacare Lite and more like a genuine market-based alternative to repeal and replace the failing health law. Anyone who believes ...
Is The Horror Story Of Single-payer Health Care Coming Soon To A Theater Near You?
Hollywood loves a sequel. This summer, studios are releasing a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, a third edition of the Despicable Me franchise, and yet another Spiderman. But warmed-over ideas are not the sole province of the film industry. Progressive lawmakers are launching a reboot of their own — Single-Payer ...
Repealing Obamacare With No Replacement? Still A Terrible Idea
With Senate Republicans struggling to agree on a proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, President Trump urged them Friday morning just to repeal the dang thing and worry about replacing it later. That would be the same President Trump who insisted earlier this year that repealing with no plan ...
Ignoring Single-Payer’s Siren Song
Government-run, single-payer health care is apparently back in vogue. The California state Senate recently green-lit a bill that would abolish private insurance and force all residents — including those currently on Medicare and the state’s version of Medicaid, Medi-Cal — into a new government-run plan. The bill has been put ...
