Health Care
Health Care
The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what’s really on the way courtesy of the recent health care overhaul: higher costs, decreased access to care, and the looming spectre of a single-payer system ...
Commentary
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Business & Economics
Doctors, patients need legal reform
Doctors in America are spending more time in courtrooms – and less time with patients – as personal injury lawyers wage a war on providers that’s harming the quality of health care. Some states are taking steps to curb this abuse, and other states have good reason to follow their ...
Commentary
Obamacare undermines our right to health care
President Obama has made no secret of his belief that health care should be “a right for every American.” This moral argument for reform was no doubt among the strongest offered by Obamacare’s proponents. Unfortunately, Obamacare doesn’t guarantee a right to health care. Instead, it undermines that right by subverting ...
Commentary
The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes presents her thoughts on the recently passed health care legislation. The author examines the 2,400 page bill and argues that the plan will leave 23 million Americans uninsured and cost taxpayers $1 trillion over ten years. Watch the video on c-spanvideo.org.
Commentary
Which is More Obese, San Francisco’s Kids, or Its Government?
Imagine this scene a year or two in our future: An inspector from the San Francisco Department of Public Health spots something shiny behind a restaurant freezer. He pulls out a plastic Iron Man™ action figure, which the manager claims belongs to his son. No dice – they haul him ...
Health Care
Medical Care Facts and Fables
A new book, “The Truth About ObamaCare” by Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute lays out the facts in the plainest English. There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square ...
Commentary
NC Mother Confronts Democrat Senator on ObamaCare
Sally C. Pipes, PRI president and CEO, recommends watching this video: “It shows a North Carolina mother confronting Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan about ObamaCare, telling her bluntly, “My children will suffer” because of ObamaCare.”
Commentary
Ratios condemn patients to inferior care
In 1999, Gray Davis signed a law mandating a statewide ratio of one nurse to five patients in surgical wards, one to six in psychiatric wards, one to four in pediatric wards, one to three in maternity wards, and one to two in intensive care. The law was strong-armed to ...
The Road to CanadaCare? Sally Pipes on The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of The Truth About ObamaCare sits down with Ted Balaker to discuss what’s really on the way courtesy of the recent health care overhaul: higher costs, decreased access to care, and the looming spectre of a single-payer system ...
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Doctors, patients need legal reform
Doctors in America are spending more time in courtrooms – and less time with patients – as personal injury lawyers wage a war on providers that’s harming the quality of health care. Some states are taking steps to curb this abuse, and other states have good reason to follow their ...
Obamacare undermines our right to health care
President Obama has made no secret of his belief that health care should be “a right for every American.” This moral argument for reform was no doubt among the strongest offered by Obamacare’s proponents. Unfortunately, Obamacare doesn’t guarantee a right to health care. Instead, it undermines that right by subverting ...
The Truth About ObamaCare
Sally Pipes presents her thoughts on the recently passed health care legislation. The author examines the 2,400 page bill and argues that the plan will leave 23 million Americans uninsured and cost taxpayers $1 trillion over ten years. Watch the video on c-spanvideo.org.
Which is More Obese, San Francisco’s Kids, or Its Government?
Imagine this scene a year or two in our future: An inspector from the San Francisco Department of Public Health spots something shiny behind a restaurant freezer. He pulls out a plastic Iron Man™ action figure, which the manager claims belongs to his son. No dice – they haul him ...
Medical Care Facts and Fables
A new book, “The Truth About ObamaCare” by Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute lays out the facts in the plainest English. There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square ...
NC Mother Confronts Democrat Senator on ObamaCare
Sally C. Pipes, PRI president and CEO, recommends watching this video: “It shows a North Carolina mother confronting Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan about ObamaCare, telling her bluntly, “My children will suffer” because of ObamaCare.”
Ratios condemn patients to inferior care
In 1999, Gray Davis signed a law mandating a statewide ratio of one nurse to five patients in surgical wards, one to six in psychiatric wards, one to four in pediatric wards, one to three in maternity wards, and one to two in intensive care. The law was strong-armed to ...
