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Medicare for all will cripple doctors, hospitals

Americans have health care on their minds. Nearly four in 10 voters think health care is the most important policy issue our country faces. Some lawmakers , including several Democratic presidential candidates, think a government takeover of the nation’s health insurance system is the answer. But “Medicare for All” isn’t ...
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Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All

Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
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Despite High Costs, Americans Support Potential of Innovative Gene Therapies to Cure Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

SAN FRANCISCO – A new poll from the California-based nonpartisan think tank, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), shows that Americans overwhelmingly support innovative gene therapies, which change the focus of medicine from treating illnesses to curing illnesses. Click here to read the top-line results of PRI’s poll on gene therapies ...
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‘Medicare for All’ Is A Trap for Businesses and Employees

Some business leaders are hopping aboard the Medicare for All bandwagon. The Business Alliance for a Healthy California, for example, now has 300 businesses calling for universal healthcare. But any businessman considering getting behind Medicare for All should know the sales pitch is flawed. The architects of Medicare for All ...
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Medicaid expansion is a failure: Lots of spending, little benefit

Researchers from MIT and Harvard recently released a report concluding that Obamacare had a “clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care.” Nearly 16 million people gained coverage through Medicaid expansion while just over 11 million purchased insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges in the past year. But that ...
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Winners and Losers in 2019’s State Budget

This year’s state budget debate is in the history books.  On Thursday, the Legislature’s liberal supermajority passed the main budget bill and some of the trailer bills required to implement the budget. The 2019-20 state budget is also Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first opportunity to put his stamp on the state’s ...
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California’s ‘free’ health care for illegal immigrants — courtesy of the taxpayers

On Thursday, June 13, California lawmakers approved a $215 billion state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign. Included in the budget are several health care reforms whose mammoth cost the state may soon regret. Paramount among them is the expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program to cover low-income undocumented ...
California

Sally Pipes Responds to CA Push to Expand Medicaid for Undocumented in Daily Signal

California Lawmakers Move to Expand Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants By Kaylee Greenlee The California Assembly voted 44-11 in favor of a bill last week that broadens state Medicaid coverage to include illegal immigrants to the tune of more than $3 billion annually. Under federal law, Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, provides ...
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Washington’s Cascade Care will bring a cascade of problems

Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., signed a bill to create a state-chartered insurance plan to be sold on the state’s insurance exchange. That makes the Evergreen State the first in the nation to offer a “public option.” State officials claim the new plan gives consumers one more option on the individual insurance market, ...
Health Care

Read Sally Pipes in Western Journal Story on How Medicare for All Hurts Seniors

GOP Senator: ‘Medicare for All’ Is the ‘Greatest Threat’ to People on Medicare Now By Randy DeSoto Wyoming senator and former surgeon John Barrasso says it is seniors relying on Medicare who will be hurt the most if Sen. Bernie Sanders-style “Medicare for All” is adopted. “There will be fewer ...
Commentary

Medicare for all will cripple doctors, hospitals

Americans have health care on their minds. Nearly four in 10 voters think health care is the most important policy issue our country faces. Some lawmakers , including several Democratic presidential candidates, think a government takeover of the nation’s health insurance system is the answer. But “Medicare for All” isn’t ...
Commentary

Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All

Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
Blog

Despite High Costs, Americans Support Potential of Innovative Gene Therapies to Cure Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

SAN FRANCISCO – A new poll from the California-based nonpartisan think tank, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), shows that Americans overwhelmingly support innovative gene therapies, which change the focus of medicine from treating illnesses to curing illnesses. Click here to read the top-line results of PRI’s poll on gene therapies ...
Commentary

‘Medicare for All’ Is A Trap for Businesses and Employees

Some business leaders are hopping aboard the Medicare for All bandwagon. The Business Alliance for a Healthy California, for example, now has 300 businesses calling for universal healthcare. But any businessman considering getting behind Medicare for All should know the sales pitch is flawed. The architects of Medicare for All ...
Commentary

Medicaid expansion is a failure: Lots of spending, little benefit

Researchers from MIT and Harvard recently released a report concluding that Obamacare had a “clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care.” Nearly 16 million people gained coverage through Medicaid expansion while just over 11 million purchased insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges in the past year. But that ...
Blog

Winners and Losers in 2019’s State Budget

This year’s state budget debate is in the history books.  On Thursday, the Legislature’s liberal supermajority passed the main budget bill and some of the trailer bills required to implement the budget. The 2019-20 state budget is also Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first opportunity to put his stamp on the state’s ...
Commentary

California’s ‘free’ health care for illegal immigrants — courtesy of the taxpayers

On Thursday, June 13, California lawmakers approved a $215 billion state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign. Included in the budget are several health care reforms whose mammoth cost the state may soon regret. Paramount among them is the expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program to cover low-income undocumented ...
California

Sally Pipes Responds to CA Push to Expand Medicaid for Undocumented in Daily Signal

California Lawmakers Move to Expand Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants By Kaylee Greenlee The California Assembly voted 44-11 in favor of a bill last week that broadens state Medicaid coverage to include illegal immigrants to the tune of more than $3 billion annually. Under federal law, Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, provides ...
Commentary

Washington’s Cascade Care will bring a cascade of problems

Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., signed a bill to create a state-chartered insurance plan to be sold on the state’s insurance exchange. That makes the Evergreen State the first in the nation to offer a “public option.” State officials claim the new plan gives consumers one more option on the individual insurance market, ...
Health Care

Read Sally Pipes in Western Journal Story on How Medicare for All Hurts Seniors

GOP Senator: ‘Medicare for All’ Is the ‘Greatest Threat’ to People on Medicare Now By Randy DeSoto Wyoming senator and former surgeon John Barrasso says it is seniors relying on Medicare who will be hurt the most if Sen. Bernie Sanders-style “Medicare for All” is adopted. “There will be fewer ...
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