Single-Payer
Commentary
Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
Blog
Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue
One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer health care to almost dead ...
Commentary
What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare for All on the Jim Bohannon Show
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy joins the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show to explain the litany of problems with single payer health care and provide examples from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Commentary
Warren’s Medicare for All isn’t affordable for anyone
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has released her new road map for Medicare for All. She’s proposing a series of executive actions and bills that would transition the country to a government-run health system during her first term in the White House. Sen. Warren claims her brand of Medicare for All, once fully in place, would require $20.5 ...
Commentary
Doctors need a second opinion on ‘Medicare-for-all’
The American College of Physicians, the nation’s second-largest doctors group, has endorsed “Medicare-for-all.” The group, whose membership consists of 159,000 internists, claims the plan would bring a host of necessary changes to the American healthcare system. The American College of Physicians joins the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association’s ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Breaks Down Single-Payer Health Care Failings on Newell Normand
Sally C. Pipes joins Newell Normand to breakdown the failings of other single-payer nations like Canada and the United States on WWL AM 870 in New Orleans.
Commentary
Bernie Sanders’ Resurgence Is Bad For America’s Health
Just three months after suffering what many thought was a campaign-ending heart attack, Senator Bernie Sanders is on a roll. According to the latest polls, he leads nominal front-runner Joe Biden in California and is within a percentage point in both Iowa and New Hampshire. On top of all that, his campaign is bringing in record ...
Blog
California Governor Never Met a Task Force He Didn’t Like
If you were able to make it through California Governor Gavin Newsom’s almost three-hour budget briefing, you’ve probably been following the enormous funding proposals included in the $222.2 billion budget estimate. You can save 167 minute of your time and read the blog post by PRI’s Tim Anaya. Governor Newsom ...
Health Care
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less? To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue
One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer health care to almost dead ...
What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare for All on the Jim Bohannon Show
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy joins the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show to explain the litany of problems with single payer health care and provide examples from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Warren’s Medicare for All isn’t affordable for anyone
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has released her new road map for Medicare for All. She’s proposing a series of executive actions and bills that would transition the country to a government-run health system during her first term in the White House. Sen. Warren claims her brand of Medicare for All, once fully in place, would require $20.5 ...
Doctors need a second opinion on ‘Medicare-for-all’
The American College of Physicians, the nation’s second-largest doctors group, has endorsed “Medicare-for-all.” The group, whose membership consists of 159,000 internists, claims the plan would bring a host of necessary changes to the American healthcare system. The American College of Physicians joins the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association’s ...
Sally Pipes Breaks Down Single-Payer Health Care Failings on Newell Normand
Sally C. Pipes joins Newell Normand to breakdown the failings of other single-payer nations like Canada and the United States on WWL AM 870 in New Orleans.
Bernie Sanders’ Resurgence Is Bad For America’s Health
Just three months after suffering what many thought was a campaign-ending heart attack, Senator Bernie Sanders is on a roll. According to the latest polls, he leads nominal front-runner Joe Biden in California and is within a percentage point in both Iowa and New Hampshire. On top of all that, his campaign is bringing in record ...
California Governor Never Met a Task Force He Didn’t Like
If you were able to make it through California Governor Gavin Newsom’s almost three-hour budget briefing, you’ve probably been following the enormous funding proposals included in the $222.2 billion budget estimate. You can save 167 minute of your time and read the blog post by PRI’s Tim Anaya. Governor Newsom ...
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less? To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
