Health Care

Townhall.com, May 5, 2008 Sally Pipes President of Pacific Research Institute discusses the failures of Canada’s government-run health care system and offers free market solutions for America’s system. This speech took place at Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan Ranch High School Conference. Download file audio_08_05-5-08_Speech

Thrilling news from my fair town: San Francisco’s Health Access Plan has managed to rope in 743 businesses, with 12,900 employees, before their deadline for enrolment in the City & County’s new mandatory health care scheme. The San Francisco Health Access Plan promises to bring “universal” health care to our ...

Businesses and employees in San Francisco are facing higher health costs and likely job losses after a three-judge panel from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a federal district court judge’s finding that San Francisco’s new health care ordinance violated the 1974 federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act ...

Health Care News (Heartland Institute), May 1, 2008 Huntington Bancshares, Inc., a $54 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is moving into consumer-driven health care. The firm has announced it is making Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) available to the businesses that make up the majority of its ...

A coalition of Massachusetts community organizations, nonprofits, insurers, and health care providers is asking the state government to regulate the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies, claiming it will help ensure more affordable prescription drugs for everyone. “The practice of medicine has been undermined by many pharmaceutical industry marketing practices,” said ...

For reasons best known to its executives, Indianapolis’ WellPoint, owner of Blue Cross of California, has recently decided to re-name itself Anthem Blue Cross. How this will help it address the snares and traps set for it by politicians, regulators, and self-styled “patient advocates,” I have no idea, but I ...

I was pretty appalled last August, when the Field Poll reported that 36% of Californians approved of government-monopoly health care. Well, they’ve done it again. According to the latest poll, Californians trust the government more than they do themselves, to take responsibility for their own health care. While the share ...

PRI’s Sally C. Pipes was a guest speaker at the Western Women’s Summit, sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, at the Reagan Ranch Center. She spoke about health care and health care myths in America.