Single-Payer
Commentary
Yes, I Do Have a Nerve
Well, I’m in the same boat. So, I’ll be happy to enter into a “compact” with Mr. Wright (and everybody else): if he’ll ask the government to return the share of my paycheck that it has taken for Medicare, which his parents use, then I’ll ask the government to return ...
Health Care
Testimony of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, Pacific Research Institute to Arizona House Health & Human Services
Thank you for inviting me here today to speak about the importance of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, HCR 2014. I believe that this bill is critical to Arizonans’ individual choice in health care, and a bulwark against undue government control of their access to health services. I am ...
Health Care
Statement by Pacific Research Institute Health Care Studies Director on the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act
Phoenix, May 26, 2009 — PRI’s director of Health Care Studies, John R. Graham, testified on the benefits of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act (AHCFA) to the Arizona House of Representatives’ Health & Human Services Committee. Mr. Graham believes that the “AHCFA secures the rights of Arizonans to spend ...
Health Care
Obama’s Healthcare Reform Malpractice
OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM MALPRACTICE Josiah Swampoodle – The only people Obama and congressional leaders are barring from the table in discussions of healthcare reform are people who advocate healthcare reform. You can’t solve a problem by only talking to those who created it. James Ridgway, Unsilent Generation – In a ...
Commentary
Busting Healthcare Myths
To fix American healthcare, it’s important to avoid some common misconceptions. President Barack Obama has promised to fundamentally change America’s healthcare system. But before he and his team get too far down the field, they would do well to read Sally Pipes’s new book, The Top Ten Myths of American ...
Commentary
A Cure Worse Than The Disease
Emily Morley got some very bad news in March 2006. Her cancer had spread, the doctor informed the 67-year-old Canadian. She would need to see an oncologist. Then Morley got some really bad news: She’d have to wait several months before she could get an appointment. Only after her family ...
Health Care
Resource Bank: Under Single-Payer, the Government Literally Decides Life and Death
Resource Bank: Under Single-Payer, the Government Literally Decides Life and Death On Thursday at Resource Bank, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute shared the incredible story of her mother’s treatment—or, rather, lack thereof—by the doctors in the Canadian health care system. Pipes told the story, which sadly ended in ...
Commentary
Curing Medicine of Government
The Benjamin Rush Society is modeled on the Federalist Society, which resists “a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society” in law schools. The BRS, named after an American Founding Father who was also a physician, does the same in medical schools. It’s sad to ...
Business & Economics
Obama’s radical economic remake promises gloomy future
President Barack Obama’s budget plan illustrates the degree to which he wants to reconstruct the U.S. economy. So radical are the changes of Obamanomics, and so at odds with historical experience, that the next few months may very well decide the economic future of the United States for a generation. ...
Commentary
Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
Yes, I Do Have a Nerve
Well, I’m in the same boat. So, I’ll be happy to enter into a “compact” with Mr. Wright (and everybody else): if he’ll ask the government to return the share of my paycheck that it has taken for Medicare, which his parents use, then I’ll ask the government to return ...
Testimony of John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, Pacific Research Institute to Arizona House Health & Human Services
Thank you for inviting me here today to speak about the importance of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, HCR 2014. I believe that this bill is critical to Arizonans’ individual choice in health care, and a bulwark against undue government control of their access to health services. I am ...
Statement by Pacific Research Institute Health Care Studies Director on the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act
Phoenix, May 26, 2009 — PRI’s director of Health Care Studies, John R. Graham, testified on the benefits of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act (AHCFA) to the Arizona House of Representatives’ Health & Human Services Committee. Mr. Graham believes that the “AHCFA secures the rights of Arizonans to spend ...
Obama’s Healthcare Reform Malpractice
OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM MALPRACTICE Josiah Swampoodle – The only people Obama and congressional leaders are barring from the table in discussions of healthcare reform are people who advocate healthcare reform. You can’t solve a problem by only talking to those who created it. James Ridgway, Unsilent Generation – In a ...
Busting Healthcare Myths
To fix American healthcare, it’s important to avoid some common misconceptions. President Barack Obama has promised to fundamentally change America’s healthcare system. But before he and his team get too far down the field, they would do well to read Sally Pipes’s new book, The Top Ten Myths of American ...
A Cure Worse Than The Disease
Emily Morley got some very bad news in March 2006. Her cancer had spread, the doctor informed the 67-year-old Canadian. She would need to see an oncologist. Then Morley got some really bad news: She’d have to wait several months before she could get an appointment. Only after her family ...
Resource Bank: Under Single-Payer, the Government Literally Decides Life and Death
Resource Bank: Under Single-Payer, the Government Literally Decides Life and Death On Thursday at Resource Bank, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute shared the incredible story of her mother’s treatment—or, rather, lack thereof—by the doctors in the Canadian health care system. Pipes told the story, which sadly ended in ...
Curing Medicine of Government
The Benjamin Rush Society is modeled on the Federalist Society, which resists “a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society” in law schools. The BRS, named after an American Founding Father who was also a physician, does the same in medical schools. It’s sad to ...
Obama’s radical economic remake promises gloomy future
President Barack Obama’s budget plan illustrates the degree to which he wants to reconstruct the U.S. economy. So radical are the changes of Obamanomics, and so at odds with historical experience, that the next few months may very well decide the economic future of the United States for a generation. ...
Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
