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Mike Bloomberg has a lot of bad ideas for health care
It took Mike Bloomberg three months and $400 million, but he finally qualified for a Democratic debate. The former New York mayor earned his place on stage in Las Vegas on Feb. 19 after surging to second place in the polls, just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. But like many wealthy hopefuls ...
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What We’re Watching – February 21, 2020
Tim Anaya – How Would Single Payer Health Care Change California ICYMI – Check out this recent interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes on the “California Insider” program from the Epoch Times, where she discusses California’s single-payer commission, and makes her case for why Medicare-for-All would be a disaster in the ...
Health Care
Rep. Buddy Carter Interviews Sally Pipes on C-SPAN on Medicare for All
Sally C. Pipes recently sat down on After Words on C-SPAN making the argument against Medicare for All and sharing anecdotes from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Pipes was interviewed by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia). Click here to watch the entire ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses New Medicare for All Book with the Heartland Institute
Sally Pipes recently sat down with Heartland Institute’s health care policy advisor Sarah Lee to discuss her new book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” In her new book, Pipes lays out all the proposals being floated at the moment from presidential candidates who flirt ...
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Nevada unions don’t trust ‘Medicare for all’ to manage their healthcare
Nevada’s culinary union, an influential force in the state’s upcoming caucuses, just fired a shot across the bow of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In flyers, emails, and text messages, the union warned its members that Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan would “end Culinary Healthcare.” The culinary union has good reason ...
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Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
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The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
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You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
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Bankruptcy Deadline May Not Save PG&E from State Takeover
Reeling from multiple massive state wildfires that its actions likely triggered, Pacific Gas & Electric, or PG&E, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this time last year. The investor-owned utility faces a June 30, 2020 deadline to come up with a plan to come out of bankruptcy, address the estimated $25 ...
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Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
Mike Bloomberg has a lot of bad ideas for health care
It took Mike Bloomberg three months and $400 million, but he finally qualified for a Democratic debate. The former New York mayor earned his place on stage in Las Vegas on Feb. 19 after surging to second place in the polls, just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. But like many wealthy hopefuls ...
What We’re Watching – February 21, 2020
Tim Anaya – How Would Single Payer Health Care Change California ICYMI – Check out this recent interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes on the “California Insider” program from the Epoch Times, where she discusses California’s single-payer commission, and makes her case for why Medicare-for-All would be a disaster in the ...
Rep. Buddy Carter Interviews Sally Pipes on C-SPAN on Medicare for All
Sally C. Pipes recently sat down on After Words on C-SPAN making the argument against Medicare for All and sharing anecdotes from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Pipes was interviewed by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia). Click here to watch the entire ...
Sally Pipes Discusses New Medicare for All Book with the Heartland Institute
Sally Pipes recently sat down with Heartland Institute’s health care policy advisor Sarah Lee to discuss her new book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” In her new book, Pipes lays out all the proposals being floated at the moment from presidential candidates who flirt ...
Nevada unions don’t trust ‘Medicare for all’ to manage their healthcare
Nevada’s culinary union, an influential force in the state’s upcoming caucuses, just fired a shot across the bow of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In flyers, emails, and text messages, the union warned its members that Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan would “end Culinary Healthcare.” The culinary union has good reason ...
Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his “Medicare-for-all” plan emerged victorious in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. Sanders captured more than one-fourth of voters in the Democratic primary, about 40 percent of whom said health care was the issue that mattered most when choosing a candidate. Close on his heels are the Democratic moderates: ...
The Public Option: Medicare For All, Part One
The chaotic Iowa Caucus on February 3 had one clear winner—government-run health care. According to exit polls, nearly six in 10 Democratic caucus voters support eliminating private insurance in favor of a single-payer system. A government takeover of the health insurance system is surprisingly popular outside Iowa as well. A recent Kaiser ...
You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks
The Progressives’ war on soda pop is fizzling out. That’s the chief finding of a new study on the public health effects of soda taxes from economists at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. The researchers looked at soda taxes in four cities — and found that they yielded ...
Bankruptcy Deadline May Not Save PG&E from State Takeover
Reeling from multiple massive state wildfires that its actions likely triggered, Pacific Gas & Electric, or PG&E, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this time last year. The investor-owned utility faces a June 30, 2020 deadline to come up with a plan to come out of bankruptcy, address the estimated $25 ...
Sally Pipes in WSJ: Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
Professional groups representing doctors are buying into Democratic plans to remake health care—and thereby acting against the interests of their members. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest organization of U.S. doctors, recently came out in support of either a public option or single payer. At the American Medical Association’s ...
