Health Care
Commentary
Attention Seniors — Medicare Isn’t Free
About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Many may soon leave the workforce and claim the Medicare benefits they believe they’re entitled to after paying Medicare taxes for decades in the workforce. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Even after paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Coronavirus
Paul Mango – Operation Warp Speed
Our guest on this podcast is Paul Mango who was Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the conception, development, and implementation of Operation Warp Speed – the U.S.’s effort to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to America and to the world. Paul discusses ...
Commentary
Nurse practitioners can ease our shortage of doctors
Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California. Even in the face of this shortage, only 25 states grant the right of “full practice” to ...
Commentary
Medicare is grabbing the power to ration approved drugs
On Thursday, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will limit coverage of Aduhelm, the first promising treatment for Alzheimer’s in years, to patients participating in clinical trials. This precedent is devastating. By curtailing broad access to an FDA-approved medicine, Medicare is essentially declaring that ...
Crime
Sally Pipes Debates Single Payer Health Care in U of Iowa Virtual Debate
On April 4, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debated Professor Gerald Friedman from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a major proponent of single payer on the question: “Is a Single-Payer National Insurance System the Best Option for the U.S. ...
Commentary
A Public Option Is Still the Wrong Way to Reform Health Care
There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the suffering that will result from the supposed ‘middle ground’ between the status quo and a single-payer system. California officials have recently fined L.A. Care, America’s largest publicly operated health-insurance program, $55 million for letting poor Angelenos suffer and die as they waited months to see ...
Featured
Murray Sabrin – An Individual Single Payer System
Our guest on this podcast is Dr. Murray Sabrin on his new book Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life: The Case for A Single-Payer System. Under the individual single-payer system outlined by Dr. Sabrin, every American adult would be in charge of his or her medical coverage. ...
Commentary
The free market healthcare idea that blurs party and geographic lines
New survey data from the American Medical Association reveals that nearly 8 in 10 physicians believe the biggest barrier to offering telehealth is the “roll back of COVID-19 waivers, coverage, and payment policies.” That’s no surprise. When the pandemic hit, regulators waived restrictions that limited who could receive and how doctors could ...
Climate Change
Democrats’ Tone-Deafness on Medicare for All Costly
House Democrats haven’t given up on bringing socialized health care to the United States — at least judging from a hearing the Committee on Oversight and Reform held earlier this week. The event was titled “Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage.” But for the committee’s Democrats, the only pathway worth considering was a ...
Commentary
Sally Pipes Quoted in Ken Artz’s Column in April’s “Health Care News”: “Single-Payer Health Care Stalls in California”
By Ken Artz A bill to establish a state-run, single-payer health care system in California was stopped without a vote in the state Assembly after supporters realized they didn’t have enough votes to pass it. A.B.1400 would have begun a state takeover of private insurance, Medicare, and Medi-Cal at a ...
Attention Seniors — Medicare Isn’t Free
About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Many may soon leave the workforce and claim the Medicare benefits they believe they’re entitled to after paying Medicare taxes for decades in the workforce. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Even after paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Paul Mango – Operation Warp Speed
Our guest on this podcast is Paul Mango who was Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the conception, development, and implementation of Operation Warp Speed – the U.S.’s effort to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to America and to the world. Paul discusses ...
Nurse practitioners can ease our shortage of doctors
Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California. Even in the face of this shortage, only 25 states grant the right of “full practice” to ...
Medicare is grabbing the power to ration approved drugs
On Thursday, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will limit coverage of Aduhelm, the first promising treatment for Alzheimer’s in years, to patients participating in clinical trials. This precedent is devastating. By curtailing broad access to an FDA-approved medicine, Medicare is essentially declaring that ...
Sally Pipes Debates Single Payer Health Care in U of Iowa Virtual Debate
On April 4, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debated Professor Gerald Friedman from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a major proponent of single payer on the question: “Is a Single-Payer National Insurance System the Best Option for the U.S. ...
A Public Option Is Still the Wrong Way to Reform Health Care
There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the suffering that will result from the supposed ‘middle ground’ between the status quo and a single-payer system. California officials have recently fined L.A. Care, America’s largest publicly operated health-insurance program, $55 million for letting poor Angelenos suffer and die as they waited months to see ...
Murray Sabrin – An Individual Single Payer System
Our guest on this podcast is Dr. Murray Sabrin on his new book Universal Medical Care from Conception to End of Life: The Case for A Single-Payer System. Under the individual single-payer system outlined by Dr. Sabrin, every American adult would be in charge of his or her medical coverage. ...
The free market healthcare idea that blurs party and geographic lines
New survey data from the American Medical Association reveals that nearly 8 in 10 physicians believe the biggest barrier to offering telehealth is the “roll back of COVID-19 waivers, coverage, and payment policies.” That’s no surprise. When the pandemic hit, regulators waived restrictions that limited who could receive and how doctors could ...
Democrats’ Tone-Deafness on Medicare for All Costly
House Democrats haven’t given up on bringing socialized health care to the United States — at least judging from a hearing the Committee on Oversight and Reform held earlier this week. The event was titled “Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage.” But for the committee’s Democrats, the only pathway worth considering was a ...
Sally Pipes Quoted in Ken Artz’s Column in April’s “Health Care News”: “Single-Payer Health Care Stalls in California”
By Ken Artz A bill to establish a state-run, single-payer health care system in California was stopped without a vote in the state Assembly after supporters realized they didn’t have enough votes to pass it. A.B.1400 would have begun a state takeover of private insurance, Medicare, and Medi-Cal at a ...
