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Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All

Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
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New Survey Results Should Give Lawmakers Pause Before Embracing Single-Payer Health Care

One issue that was pushed on the backburner in this year’s very eventful legislative session was single-payer health care. Surprisingly, even though the Senate actually passed a single payer bill (SB 562) last session, a single-payer bill wasn’t even introduced this legislative session. Now as our attention turns to the ...
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Across The Atlantic, Nationalized Health Care Is Failing Cancer Patients

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is failing cancer patients. That’s the grim conclusion of a new study published in the Lancet, a medical journal. Researchers examined five-year survival rates for seven types of cancer in seven “high income” countries. The United Kingdom came in dead last in five of the ...
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Small business owners are foolishly supporting ‘Medicare for all’

Small business owners are coming around to “Medicare for all,” according to a new national survey from the Commonwealth Fund. About 34% of the firms polled said they strongly supported “Medicare for all.” An additional 24% are somewhat on board. These firms need to realize that “Medicare for all” would raise costs for them ...
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ObamaCare, not Trump, is adding to the number of uninsured Americans

On Sept. 10, the Census Bureau announced that the share of Americans without health insurance increased for the first time since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act became law. Defenders of ObamaCare immediately blamed President Trump for the increase in the uninsured rate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, never one to mince words, said ...
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Medicare for all means Medicare for none

Cheryl Gilarski has had enough health problems to last a lifetime. The 60-year-old Canadian recently shared her story with the CBC, Canada’s national broadcasting company. Her troubles began two decades ago, when doctors diagnosed her with an atrial flutter, a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. ...
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Private Insurance v. Medicare for All

Last week, I accompanied Sally Pipes to New York where she participated in a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared. For a decade now, Intelligence Squared has been hosting debates on all issues concerning public policy, from the Middle East, to driverless cars, to one of my recent favorites — is ...
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The real cost of ‘Medicare for All’ could be American lives

During the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for Medicare for All, saying, “We need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does.” Sanders is right to point out the similarities between his plan and government-run ...
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Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients

Hospital behemoth Sutter Health—a non-profit organization in Northern California that has gradually acquired 24 hospitals and 5,000 physicians—will soon go to court to defend itself against allegations that it has violated the state’s antitrust laws. The plaintiffs claim that Sutter illegally pushed competitors out of the market and raised prices for ...
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Sorry, Bernie Sanders, American health care is not ‘barbaric’ (and Canada’s system isn’t perfect)

The New York Times has detailed how Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to be fixated on Canada’s health care system. That fixation manifested itself again during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. It started with an illness that befell his mother while Sanders was in high school. His family struggled to pay for her ...
Commentary

Business Leaders Should Crunch the Numbers On Medicare for All

Big business appears to be getting behind Medicare for All. That’s one way to read a new report from the National Business Group on Health. The organization recently asked 147 large employers that provide coverage to over 15.6 million workers and their dependents for their opinions of Medicare for All. ...
Blog

New Survey Results Should Give Lawmakers Pause Before Embracing Single-Payer Health Care

One issue that was pushed on the backburner in this year’s very eventful legislative session was single-payer health care. Surprisingly, even though the Senate actually passed a single payer bill (SB 562) last session, a single-payer bill wasn’t even introduced this legislative session. Now as our attention turns to the ...
Commentary

Across The Atlantic, Nationalized Health Care Is Failing Cancer Patients

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is failing cancer patients. That’s the grim conclusion of a new study published in the Lancet, a medical journal. Researchers examined five-year survival rates for seven types of cancer in seven “high income” countries. The United Kingdom came in dead last in five of the ...
Commentary

Small business owners are foolishly supporting ‘Medicare for all’

Small business owners are coming around to “Medicare for all,” according to a new national survey from the Commonwealth Fund. About 34% of the firms polled said they strongly supported “Medicare for all.” An additional 24% are somewhat on board. These firms need to realize that “Medicare for all” would raise costs for them ...
Commentary

ObamaCare, not Trump, is adding to the number of uninsured Americans

On Sept. 10, the Census Bureau announced that the share of Americans without health insurance increased for the first time since 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act became law. Defenders of ObamaCare immediately blamed President Trump for the increase in the uninsured rate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, never one to mince words, said ...
Commentary

Medicare for all means Medicare for none

Cheryl Gilarski has had enough health problems to last a lifetime. The 60-year-old Canadian recently shared her story with the CBC, Canada’s national broadcasting company. Her troubles began two decades ago, when doctors diagnosed her with an atrial flutter, a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. ...
Blog

Private Insurance v. Medicare for All

Last week, I accompanied Sally Pipes to New York where she participated in a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared. For a decade now, Intelligence Squared has been hosting debates on all issues concerning public policy, from the Middle East, to driverless cars, to one of my recent favorites — is ...
Commentary

The real cost of ‘Medicare for All’ could be American lives

During the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for Medicare for All, saying, “We need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does.” Sanders is right to point out the similarities between his plan and government-run ...
Commentary

Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients

Hospital behemoth Sutter Health—a non-profit organization in Northern California that has gradually acquired 24 hospitals and 5,000 physicians—will soon go to court to defend itself against allegations that it has violated the state’s antitrust laws. The plaintiffs claim that Sutter illegally pushed competitors out of the market and raised prices for ...
Commentary

Sorry, Bernie Sanders, American health care is not ‘barbaric’ (and Canada’s system isn’t perfect)

The New York Times has detailed how Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to be fixated on Canada’s health care system. That fixation manifested itself again during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. It started with an illness that befell his mother while Sanders was in high school. His family struggled to pay for her ...
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