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Health Care
Which Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance Or Medicaid?
An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for it. Crux of the issue is the more efficient system: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) or Medicaid. Sally Pipes, president of the ...
Business & Economics
NEW STUDY: Californians Would Pay $1.9 Billion More For Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax
Californians would face $1.9 billion in higher insurance costs if Congress passes a border adjustment tax as part of federal tax reform, according to a new study released today by the R Street Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. This tax would make it virtually impossible for U.S. insurers to ...
Health Care
Modesto Man Thanks The ACA For Flimsy Health Plan And Sky-High Insurance Rates
Bruce Pardini of Modesto refers to his health insurance plan as “this plastic card in my pocket”, which costs almost $1,000 a month. It has a $6,500 annual deductible and other costly terms such as a $75 copay for physician visits. Pardini is among the middle class voices that are ...
Health Care
Repealing Obamacare With No Replacement? Still A Terrible Idea
With Senate Republicans struggling to agree on a proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, President Trump urged them Friday morning just to repeal the dang thing and worry about replacing it later. That would be the same President Trump who insisted earlier this year that repealing with no plan ...
California
Sally Pipes Debates Michael Lighty of CA Nurses Assn on Single Payer
Listen to PRI’s Sally C. Pipes debate Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association on the California single-payer legislation (SB 562) on Air Talk on Southern California Public Radio (KPCC). Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is also a guest on the program. RELATED LINKS KPCC: ‘It’s kind of ridiculous’: Assembly Speaker ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes on Lars Larson Show
Listen to PRI’s Sally Pipes talk about the Senate Republican health care bill, the CBO score, and efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare on the Lars Larson Show. Tune in around the 10:00 mark to hear Sally’s interview. RELATED LINKS Sally Pipes on Lars Larson Show 6/26/17
Health Care
Sally Pipes On Newsmax TV on Senate GOP Health Plan
Watch PRI’s Sally Pipes discuss the Senate Republican health plan, also known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, with Bill Tucker on Newsmax TV. She argues that Senate Republicans embraced Obamacare in their health care bill. RELATED LINKS Sally Pipes on Newsmax TV – Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare in their ...
Government Spending
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
California
Californians Fear Losing Coverage In Obamacare Reform
As the Republican-led U.S. Senate prepares to vote — possibly by next week — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a new poll shows that 56 percent of Californians worry that they or someone in their family will lose health insurance coverage if the law, commonly called Obamacare, ...
Health Care
Beyond the New Normal – Part 3:Measuring Economic Growth
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump’s main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it’s unlikely to result in more ...
Which Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance Or Medicaid?
An old disagreement between Uwe Reinhardt and Sally Pipes in Forbes is a teachable moment. There’s a dearth of confrontational debates in health policy and education is worse off for it. Crux of the issue is the more efficient system: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) or Medicaid. Sally Pipes, president of the ...
NEW STUDY: Californians Would Pay $1.9 Billion More For Insurance If Congress Passes Border Adjustment Tax
Californians would face $1.9 billion in higher insurance costs if Congress passes a border adjustment tax as part of federal tax reform, according to a new study released today by the R Street Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. This tax would make it virtually impossible for U.S. insurers to ...
Modesto Man Thanks The ACA For Flimsy Health Plan And Sky-High Insurance Rates
Bruce Pardini of Modesto refers to his health insurance plan as “this plastic card in my pocket”, which costs almost $1,000 a month. It has a $6,500 annual deductible and other costly terms such as a $75 copay for physician visits. Pardini is among the middle class voices that are ...
Repealing Obamacare With No Replacement? Still A Terrible Idea
With Senate Republicans struggling to agree on a proposal to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, President Trump urged them Friday morning just to repeal the dang thing and worry about replacing it later. That would be the same President Trump who insisted earlier this year that repealing with no plan ...
Sally Pipes Debates Michael Lighty of CA Nurses Assn on Single Payer
Listen to PRI’s Sally C. Pipes debate Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association on the California single-payer legislation (SB 562) on Air Talk on Southern California Public Radio (KPCC). Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is also a guest on the program. RELATED LINKS KPCC: ‘It’s kind of ridiculous’: Assembly Speaker ...
Sally Pipes on Lars Larson Show
Listen to PRI’s Sally Pipes talk about the Senate Republican health care bill, the CBO score, and efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare on the Lars Larson Show. Tune in around the 10:00 mark to hear Sally’s interview. RELATED LINKS Sally Pipes on Lars Larson Show 6/26/17
Sally Pipes On Newsmax TV on Senate GOP Health Plan
Watch PRI’s Sally Pipes discuss the Senate Republican health plan, also known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, with Bill Tucker on Newsmax TV. She argues that Senate Republicans embraced Obamacare in their health care bill. RELATED LINKS Sally Pipes on Newsmax TV – Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare in their ...
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
Californians Fear Losing Coverage In Obamacare Reform
As the Republican-led U.S. Senate prepares to vote — possibly by next week — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a new poll shows that 56 percent of Californians worry that they or someone in their family will lose health insurance coverage if the law, commonly called Obamacare, ...
Beyond the New Normal – Part 3:Measuring Economic Growth
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump’s main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it’s unlikely to result in more ...
