Health Care Reform
Commentary
Joe Biden Leaves Behind A Disastrous Healthcare Legacy
President Joe Biden’s term will expire on January 20, 2025, when a new president will be inaugurated. He brought his decades-long political career to a close last month when he announced he would not seek re-election. Biden has thrown his support to his vice president, Kamala Harris, in this November’s election. ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 5, 2024
Blog
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage Just 37% Support Government Health Care Takeover SACRAMENTO – For the third year in a row, an overwhelming majority of Americans say they are satisfied with their current health coverage, based ...
Pacific Research Institute
August 5, 2024
Commentary
Obamacare needs to police fraud
Are Obamacare’s exchanges hotbeds of fraud? New research suggests as much. An estimated 4 million to 5 million people have received fully subsidized health insurance by misrepresenting their income. That’s $20 billion lost to bogus enrollments this year. The problem stems from the original design of Obamacare – and the ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 3, 2024
Commentary
Vance Must Put America First on Healthcare
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has made quite a splash since arriving in Washington less than two years ago. He’s gone from the junior senator from Ohio and the 96th by seniority to the top of the Republican ticket as Donald Trump’s running mate. Vance has branded himself as an “America First” conservative. ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 29, 2024
Commentary
Kamala Harris’s healthcare record is rotten to the core
Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have enthusiastically rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris as their presumptive presidential nominee. Voters will not be nearly as enthusiastic about her record on healthcare. Harris stands to President Joe Biden’s left on health policy. If elected, she would almost certainly drag the United States closer to a complete government ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 29, 2024
Commentary
Read about Biden's plan to extend health insurance to DACA
Biden’s Healthcare Amnesty Solves Nothing — and at a Staggering Cost
The Biden administration recently finalized a rule extending subsidized health coverage to approximately 100,000 people without health insurance who entered the United States illegally. These folks are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program — a group sometimes known as “dreamers.” The new rule effectively rewrites ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 23, 2024
Commentary
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 10, 2024
Commentary
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 8, 2024
Commentary
Read about latest problems with Obamacare
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Irresistibly Inviting for Fraud
A new study from the Paragon Health Institute reveals that they’re also an invitation to fraud. As many as five million people receive free, taxpayer-funded marketplace coverage even though they’re not eligible for such largesse. It’s far from clear how many of these patients are deliberately misleading the government and ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 2, 2024
Commentary
Thanks to Biden, US Insurance Market Takes It in the Teeth
When in doubt, mandate. That has long been one of the unspoken principles guiding the left’s approach to health policy. A newly finalized rule from the Biden administration offers a fresh example of this pathology in action. Starting in 2027, the reform gives states the option of adding coverage for adult dental ...
Sally C. Pipes
June 18, 2024
Joe Biden Leaves Behind A Disastrous Healthcare Legacy
President Joe Biden’s term will expire on January 20, 2025, when a new president will be inaugurated. He brought his decades-long political career to a close last month when he announced he would not seek re-election. Biden has thrown his support to his vice president, Kamala Harris, in this November’s election. ...
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage Just 37% Support Government Health Care Takeover SACRAMENTO – For the third year in a row, an overwhelming majority of Americans say they are satisfied with their current health coverage, based ...
Obamacare needs to police fraud
Are Obamacare’s exchanges hotbeds of fraud? New research suggests as much. An estimated 4 million to 5 million people have received fully subsidized health insurance by misrepresenting their income. That’s $20 billion lost to bogus enrollments this year. The problem stems from the original design of Obamacare – and the ...
Vance Must Put America First on Healthcare
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has made quite a splash since arriving in Washington less than two years ago. He’s gone from the junior senator from Ohio and the 96th by seniority to the top of the Republican ticket as Donald Trump’s running mate. Vance has branded himself as an “America First” conservative. ...
Kamala Harris’s healthcare record is rotten to the core
Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have enthusiastically rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris as their presumptive presidential nominee. Voters will not be nearly as enthusiastic about her record on healthcare. Harris stands to President Joe Biden’s left on health policy. If elected, she would almost certainly drag the United States closer to a complete government ...
Read about Biden's plan to extend health insurance to DACA
Biden’s Healthcare Amnesty Solves Nothing — and at a Staggering Cost
The Biden administration recently finalized a rule extending subsidized health coverage to approximately 100,000 people without health insurance who entered the United States illegally. These folks are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program — a group sometimes known as “dreamers.” The new rule effectively rewrites ...
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...
Read about latest problems with Obamacare
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Irresistibly Inviting for Fraud
A new study from the Paragon Health Institute reveals that they’re also an invitation to fraud. As many as five million people receive free, taxpayer-funded marketplace coverage even though they’re not eligible for such largesse. It’s far from clear how many of these patients are deliberately misleading the government and ...
Thanks to Biden, US Insurance Market Takes It in the Teeth
When in doubt, mandate. That has long been one of the unspoken principles guiding the left’s approach to health policy. A newly finalized rule from the Biden administration offers a fresh example of this pathology in action. Starting in 2027, the reform gives states the option of adding coverage for adult dental ...