Single-Payer
Commentary
U.S. Seniors Deserve Better Than Canadian Health Care
Seven in 10 Democrats want to establish a Canada-style single-payer health care system. Progressive lawmakers are even more gung-ho. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has introduced a “Medicare for All” bill modeled on Canada’s system. Sixteen of his Democratic colleagues have co-sponsored it. Meanwhile, over 60 percent of Democrats in the ...
Commentary
Canada’s Health Care Is Abysmal. Why Would We Copy It?
Americans have come down with single-payer fever. A whole 59% now back a national health plan, according to a March 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—way up from the 33% reported by the Pew Research Center in summer 2017. But the American people don’t really understand what supporting a single-payer plan means. For ...
Blog
Lieutenant Governor’s Race is a Political Chess Match
Candidates Sen. Ed Hernandez and Eleni Kounalakis One of the most hotly contested races this year is the race for Lieutenant Governor. Gavin Newsom once called the lieutenant governor’s office “a largely ceremonial post . . . with no real authority and no real portfolio.” Of course, that hasn’t stopped ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Obamacare and Single-Payer on Bill Martinez Live
Listen PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the implosion of Obamacare and the march toward single-payer on the nationally-syndicated “Bill Martinez Live” radio program. The interview begins around the 47:00 mark.
Blog
What We’re Watching: Even Fabio Has Turned on California
There were simply too many great videos to choose from for this week’s “What We’re Watching”. Narrowing down our choices this week was as hard as the task faced by the judges on American Idol on Monday night having to cut down 5 contestants. For the record, I’m still upset ...
Blog
Job Killing Bills? Who Knew?
Last week, the California Chamber of Commerce came out with its annual list of Job Killer bills. In putting together this list, the Chamber wanted to call attention to the negative impact these 21 bills have on the state’s job climate and economy should they become law. But are Californians ...
Blog
Herding Cats and Moving the Ball Forward
Tim Anaya interviews Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work for 9 consecutive Assembly Republican Leaders. To say that leading the minority party in California is a great challenge is an understatement. Transitioning from being one Senator ...
Commentary
This Easter, Single-Payer Is Rising from the Grave
A revival movement is sweeping the nation. Millions of souls have already been converted, thanks to a charismatic preacher and his passionate disciples. I’m talking, of course, about the doctrine of “Medicare for All” and its chief evangelist, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The socialist senator’s sermons appear to have swayed ...
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3 Free-Market Bills Worth Watching in April Committee Rush
Former Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy said it best. When speaking about his time in the Legislature, he said, “I’m not a lawmaker. I’m a Republican!” When I worked in the Legislature, I used to always joke that my fellow Republican staff and I had one busy month a year – April. ...
Health Care
Take Single-Payer Health Care Proposals Seriously: Sally Pipes
By Allison Bell Advocates of pure single-payer health care proposals for the United States are in a stronger position than ever, and those proposals would create a system much different from Medicare Advantage for all. Sally Pipes. president of the Pacific Research Institute, has delivered those messages in her new book, “The ...
U.S. Seniors Deserve Better Than Canadian Health Care
Seven in 10 Democrats want to establish a Canada-style single-payer health care system. Progressive lawmakers are even more gung-ho. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has introduced a “Medicare for All” bill modeled on Canada’s system. Sixteen of his Democratic colleagues have co-sponsored it. Meanwhile, over 60 percent of Democrats in the ...
Canada’s Health Care Is Abysmal. Why Would We Copy It?
Americans have come down with single-payer fever. A whole 59% now back a national health plan, according to a March 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—way up from the 33% reported by the Pew Research Center in summer 2017. But the American people don’t really understand what supporting a single-payer plan means. For ...
Lieutenant Governor’s Race is a Political Chess Match
Candidates Sen. Ed Hernandez and Eleni Kounalakis One of the most hotly contested races this year is the race for Lieutenant Governor. Gavin Newsom once called the lieutenant governor’s office “a largely ceremonial post . . . with no real authority and no real portfolio.” Of course, that hasn’t stopped ...
Sally Pipes Talks Obamacare and Single-Payer on Bill Martinez Live
Listen PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the implosion of Obamacare and the march toward single-payer on the nationally-syndicated “Bill Martinez Live” radio program. The interview begins around the 47:00 mark.
What We’re Watching: Even Fabio Has Turned on California
There were simply too many great videos to choose from for this week’s “What We’re Watching”. Narrowing down our choices this week was as hard as the task faced by the judges on American Idol on Monday night having to cut down 5 contestants. For the record, I’m still upset ...
Job Killing Bills? Who Knew?
Last week, the California Chamber of Commerce came out with its annual list of Job Killer bills. In putting together this list, the Chamber wanted to call attention to the negative impact these 21 bills have on the state’s job climate and economy should they become law. But are Californians ...
Herding Cats and Moving the Ball Forward
Tim Anaya interviews Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work for 9 consecutive Assembly Republican Leaders. To say that leading the minority party in California is a great challenge is an understatement. Transitioning from being one Senator ...
This Easter, Single-Payer Is Rising from the Grave
A revival movement is sweeping the nation. Millions of souls have already been converted, thanks to a charismatic preacher and his passionate disciples. I’m talking, of course, about the doctrine of “Medicare for All” and its chief evangelist, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The socialist senator’s sermons appear to have swayed ...
3 Free-Market Bills Worth Watching in April Committee Rush
Former Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy said it best. When speaking about his time in the Legislature, he said, “I’m not a lawmaker. I’m a Republican!” When I worked in the Legislature, I used to always joke that my fellow Republican staff and I had one busy month a year – April. ...
Take Single-Payer Health Care Proposals Seriously: Sally Pipes
By Allison Bell Advocates of pure single-payer health care proposals for the United States are in a stronger position than ever, and those proposals would create a system much different from Medicare Advantage for all. Sally Pipes. president of the Pacific Research Institute, has delivered those messages in her new book, “The ...
