Health Care
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ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
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Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries
March 11, 2014 Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of Access and ...
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Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails
Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giants Sams Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
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Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd
Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvards Institute of Politics. Even more 56 percent disapprove ...
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Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
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ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On
President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
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The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov)
The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov) DOWNLOAD BRIEF February 18, 2014 The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
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Obamacare Reality Check
Sally Pipes appears on NBC Reality Check: Obamacare Enrollment: Will We Make It?
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Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries
March 11, 2014 Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of Access and ...
Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails
Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giants Sams Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd
Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvards Institute of Politics. Even more 56 percent disapprove ...
Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On
President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov)
The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov) DOWNLOAD BRIEF February 18, 2014 The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Obamacare Reality Check
Sally Pipes appears on NBC Reality Check: Obamacare Enrollment: Will We Make It?
Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
