Single-Payer
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Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Exclusive Interview on Health Care with the Epoch Times
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, joins the California Insider program with the Epoch Times to discuss the failures of a government run, single-payer health care system.
Commentary
The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
Commentary
You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
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Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on the Dennis Prager Show
Sally C. Pipes joins the Dennis Prager Show to talk about the dangers of Medicare for All and to share insights from her new book on single-payer health care called False Promise, False Premise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
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Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
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Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
Sally Pipes Exclusive Interview on Health Care with the Epoch Times
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, joins the California Insider program with the Epoch Times to discuss the failures of a government run, single-payer health care system.
The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on the Dennis Prager Show
Sally C. Pipes joins the Dennis Prager Show to talk about the dangers of Medicare for All and to share insights from her new book on single-payer health care called False Promise, False Premise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
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 ...
