Obamacare
Commentary
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
Commentary
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs
The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
Health Care
Health Care Expert Sally Pipes on Repealing, Replacing Obamacare
As a Canadian and firsthand witness of Canadas government-run health care system, Sally Pipes is warning that Obamacare will exacerbate the existing problems of rising costs and lack of access in the American health care system. At a recent Heritage event, Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, ...
Health Care
Dismantling Obamacare
Coffee and Markets On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Sally Pipes to discuss her book The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle Obamacare, some of the criticisms of Obamacare, and alternative solutions for fixing healthcare. We’re brought to you ...
Health Care
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Commentary
Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare
Statements both for and against President Barack Obamas signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 amicus curiae or friend of the court briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
Commentary
Health care gurus: Idaho needs to return the exchange money and wait on the idea
A pair of health policy experts Thursday talked about state and federal health exchanges and they have a single message for Idaho lawmakers: Give the money back and wait. John Graham, health care studies director for the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, and Christie Herrera, with the American ...
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Health care expert Sally Pipes on what could replace Obamacare
Repeal and replace has been a conservative mantra ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But while the process of getting rid of the law is somewhat straightforward, theres been no consensus on what to actually replace it with. Enter Sally Pipes, the renowned health care expert ...
California
California hospitals’ unhealthy dependence on government
While many Americans are eager for the U.S. Supreme Court this year to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a federal judge in Los Angeles has just made a misguided decision that cuts right to the root of the government’s role in controlling people’s access to ...
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs
The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
Health Care Expert Sally Pipes on Repealing, Replacing Obamacare
As a Canadian and firsthand witness of Canadas government-run health care system, Sally Pipes is warning that Obamacare will exacerbate the existing problems of rising costs and lack of access in the American health care system. At a recent Heritage event, Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, ...
Dismantling Obamacare
Coffee and Markets On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Sally Pipes to discuss her book The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle Obamacare, some of the criticisms of Obamacare, and alternative solutions for fixing healthcare. We’re brought to you ...
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, Galen Institute and Angel Raich File Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
The Pacific Research Institute, Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, and the Galen Institute, today issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit’s decision that the individual mandate under ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare
Statements both for and against President Barack Obamas signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 amicus curiae or friend of the court briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
Health care gurus: Idaho needs to return the exchange money and wait on the idea
A pair of health policy experts Thursday talked about state and federal health exchanges and they have a single message for Idaho lawmakers: Give the money back and wait. John Graham, health care studies director for the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, and Christie Herrera, with the American ...
Health care expert Sally Pipes on what could replace Obamacare
Repeal and replace has been a conservative mantra ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But while the process of getting rid of the law is somewhat straightforward, theres been no consensus on what to actually replace it with. Enter Sally Pipes, the renowned health care expert ...
California hospitals’ unhealthy dependence on government
While many Americans are eager for the U.S. Supreme Court this year to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a federal judge in Los Angeles has just made a misguided decision that cuts right to the root of the government’s role in controlling people’s access to ...
