Health Care Reform
Commentary
Obama’s Health Plan Will Succeed
Many critics are busy complaining that President Obama’s healthcare reform plans are doomed to failure. It would be nice if they would just quit their whining and get back to caring for their polo ponies or something, because it’s clear that the plan will be successful. Think about it — ...
Mark Schiller
August 6, 2009
Commentary
Healthcare 101: Congressional ‘reform’ measures are bad news
With public support for his healthcare reform plan eroding fast, President Obama has attempted to cut a higher profile on the issue, most recently during a televised primetime news conference and at Town Hall meetings now taking place around the country. Less than half of Americans approve of the president’s ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 2, 2009
Commentary
Kennedy Unveils Government-Run Health Care Bill
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), August 1, 2009 Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions have unveiled the first of what is expected to be a series of health care reform bills released this year. The Affordable Health Choices Act establishes federal and ...
Joe Emanuel
August 1, 2009
Health Care
ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform
Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
Pacific Research Institute
July 31, 2009
Commentary
Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate
Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 27, 2009
Business & Economics
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 27, 2009
Commentary
A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has taken center stage in Washington with the release of his highly anticipated health care reform plan. His proposal will likely serve as the foundation of whatever legislation emerges from Congress. Sen. Baucus had promised to be bipartisan. This summer, he convened the ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 27, 2009
Commentary
Beware of Obama Care
If our health care system is as bad as some have suggested in “Letters to the Editor” and responses to the earlier blog, and the Canadian, U.K. and other European styled socialized health care systems are so great, then we should see Americans flocking to Canada to take advantage of ...
Lou Treadway
July 27, 2009
Commentary
Sally C. Pipes: Texas-style health care reform is bigger and better
President Obama’s campaign for healthcare reform has run into an unexpected roadblock — other Democrats. And, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said yesterday that the Senate would not be voting on a bill prior to the August recess. The president wanted to get a bill passed before the recess ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 24, 2009
Commentary
A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan
That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 24, 2009
Obama’s Health Plan Will Succeed
Many critics are busy complaining that President Obama’s healthcare reform plans are doomed to failure. It would be nice if they would just quit their whining and get back to caring for their polo ponies or something, because it’s clear that the plan will be successful. Think about it — ...
Healthcare 101: Congressional ‘reform’ measures are bad news
With public support for his healthcare reform plan eroding fast, President Obama has attempted to cut a higher profile on the issue, most recently during a televised primetime news conference and at Town Hall meetings now taking place around the country. Less than half of Americans approve of the president’s ...
Kennedy Unveils Government-Run Health Care Bill
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), August 1, 2009 Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions have unveiled the first of what is expected to be a series of health care reform bills released this year. The Affordable Health Choices Act establishes federal and ...
ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform
Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate
Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has taken center stage in Washington with the release of his highly anticipated health care reform plan. His proposal will likely serve as the foundation of whatever legislation emerges from Congress. Sen. Baucus had promised to be bipartisan. This summer, he convened the ...
Beware of Obama Care
If our health care system is as bad as some have suggested in “Letters to the Editor” and responses to the earlier blog, and the Canadian, U.K. and other European styled socialized health care systems are so great, then we should see Americans flocking to Canada to take advantage of ...
Sally C. Pipes: Texas-style health care reform is bigger and better
President Obama’s campaign for healthcare reform has run into an unexpected roadblock — other Democrats. And, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said yesterday that the Senate would not be voting on a bill prior to the August recess. The president wanted to get a bill passed before the recess ...
A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan
That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...