Health Care Reform
Commentary
Senate Finance Committee Seeks Funds for Health Care Bill
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees Affordable Health Choices Act, have said their draft proposal now bears a total cost of just under $1 trillion. That figure is ...
Commentary
The Great “Prevention” Myth II
The advocates of government controlled health care keep pushing the prevention-saves-money myth. The Pacific Research Institute’s Sally Pipes offers more reasons why prevention, even when it’s a good thing, doesn’t make health care cheaper: … another example from a study published last year in the journal Circulation. Suppose we enact ...
Commentary
Health Overhaul Partisanship Hit
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill remain unable to reach a bipartisan agreement on a health care reform plan, some policy analysts are questioning the congressional majority’s willingness to put partisan politics aside and work together to improve health care policy. “None of the Democratic proposals are ‘reform’; rather, they are ...
Commentary
An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure
In the debate over health care reform, preventive medicine has become almost everyone’s panacea. During recent campaign-style town hall meetings in New Hampshire, Colorado and Montana, President Barack Obama never missed an opportunity to claim that preventive care and wellness programs would save money and lives. Yet there are some ...
Commentary
Liberal Doctors and Distortions about the Uninsured in America
Last July ’09 the WSJ published an article by Carl Bialik, The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans: Congressional debate over health care hinges on numbers projected a decade forward to make sure the plan can be paid for. But it’s hard enough pinning down today’s numbers. The Census Bureau estimates ...
Commentary
Obama plan is stealth for a single payer system
San Jose Mercury News, August 27, 2009 At a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama promised that health care reform will not threaten private insurance coverage. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” he said. “This is not about ...
Business & Economics
Conservative Leaders on Costly Lawsuits and Health Care Reform
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT RE: Costly lawsuit abuses drive up medical expenses and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare, but provide only marginal assistance to injured patients. Yet Congress refuses to address this problem or to make it part of meaningful healthcare reform. Concerned citizens need to ...
Commentary
Health care reform, yes. Big government, no.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American body politic is rejecting. Canadians spend 10 percent of annual GDP on health care, while Americans spend 16 percent. However, Canadians experience long waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment, ...
Health Care
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Health Care
Hands Off My Granny!
Fox News – Fox Forum, August 19, 2009 Just as some health care fixes may seem self-indulgent (or ridiculous) to those fighting tooth and nail to get a life-saving mastectomy, giving Granny every last shot at prolonging life may seem unnecessary — but it may be simply how we Americans ...
Senate Finance Committee Seeks Funds for Health Care Bill
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees Affordable Health Choices Act, have said their draft proposal now bears a total cost of just under $1 trillion. That figure is ...
The Great “Prevention” Myth II
The advocates of government controlled health care keep pushing the prevention-saves-money myth. The Pacific Research Institute’s Sally Pipes offers more reasons why prevention, even when it’s a good thing, doesn’t make health care cheaper: … another example from a study published last year in the journal Circulation. Suppose we enact ...
Health Overhaul Partisanship Hit
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill remain unable to reach a bipartisan agreement on a health care reform plan, some policy analysts are questioning the congressional majority’s willingness to put partisan politics aside and work together to improve health care policy. “None of the Democratic proposals are ‘reform’; rather, they are ...
An ounce of prevention is no cost-saving cure
In the debate over health care reform, preventive medicine has become almost everyone’s panacea. During recent campaign-style town hall meetings in New Hampshire, Colorado and Montana, President Barack Obama never missed an opportunity to claim that preventive care and wellness programs would save money and lives. Yet there are some ...
Liberal Doctors and Distortions about the Uninsured in America
Last July ’09 the WSJ published an article by Carl Bialik, The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans: Congressional debate over health care hinges on numbers projected a decade forward to make sure the plan can be paid for. But it’s hard enough pinning down today’s numbers. The Census Bureau estimates ...
Obama plan is stealth for a single payer system
San Jose Mercury News, August 27, 2009 At a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Barack Obama promised that health care reform will not threaten private insurance coverage. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” he said. “This is not about ...
Conservative Leaders on Costly Lawsuits and Health Care Reform
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT RE: Costly lawsuit abuses drive up medical expenses and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare, but provide only marginal assistance to injured patients. Yet Congress refuses to address this problem or to make it part of meaningful healthcare reform. Concerned citizens need to ...
Health care reform, yes. Big government, no.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American body politic is rejecting. Canadians spend 10 percent of annual GDP on health care, while Americans spend 16 percent. However, Canadians experience long waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment, ...
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Hands Off My Granny!
Fox News – Fox Forum, August 19, 2009 Just as some health care fixes may seem self-indulgent (or ridiculous) to those fighting tooth and nail to get a life-saving mastectomy, giving Granny every last shot at prolonging life may seem unnecessary — but it may be simply how we Americans ...
