Medicare
Commentary
Pending “Buy America” Executive Order Threatens Coronavirus Response
This week, as the coronavirus pandemic surges, President Trump is considering an executive order that would result in obstructing the movement of critical medical supplies and treatments. The new order aims to bring the pharmaceutical supply chain back to the United States by forcing federal agencies to “Buy America”—American medical equipment, American ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
Commentary
Coronavirus is not a good argument for ‘Medicare for all’
The novel coronavirus has emerged as the latest justification for “Medicare for all.” This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “When I talk about healthcare being a human right … the coronavirus crisis makes that abundantly clear as to why it should be.” And last week, left-wing wunderkind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ...
Health Care
The Seth Leibsohn Show Talks Medicare for All, Sanders Health Care Plans with Sally Pipes
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, and author of the book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All,” joined the Seth Leibsohn Show (960 KKNT Phoenix) on what Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden would do to our health care system, including the confusion around the total ...
Commentary
Surprise billing: Not all fixes are created equal
Congress is still fighting about surprise medical bills. The House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee are both trying to line up bipartisan support for their competing approaches. Neither committee’s approach is right. Congress must go back to the drawing board and come up with a fix ...
Commentary
Biden and Sanders would both end private health insurance, despite what Biden claims
Self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who says he will launch a political revolution if elected president in November, has made his radical “Medicare-for-all” proposal the centerpiece of his campaign. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is challenging Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, argues correctly that “Medicare-for-all” is unaffordable. Biden wants ...
Commentary
No, Bernie, ‘Medicare-for-all’ won’t save money
On Feb. 24, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released a document outlining how he plans to pay for his agenda, including “Medicare-for-all.” He claims his signature health plan will save the country billions of dollars each year. That estimate rests on faulty math and flawed assumptions. Medicare-for-all would cost far more than Sanders admits and ...
Blog
How Many Billionaires Would It Take to Fund Bernie’s Agenda?
Our colleague Wayne Winegarden wrote a marvelous piece for his Forbes column on “Bernie’s Math Problem.” To fund free health care, free housing, free college and so on, the Democrat frontrunner plans to make “billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.” Why not cut to the chase, thought Winegarden, “Instead ...
Blog
Single-Payer Poll Watch Update: Sanders Rises, As Average Support Falls, Confusion Increases for Single-Payer Health Care
One would think that the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to the top of the Democrat presidential nomination list equals growing enthusiasm for the Medicare for All plan he champions. But Sanders’ rise to frontrunner status isn’t doing much to boost the lukewarm attitudes voters give a single-payer health ...
Commentary
Doctors Who Support Medicare for All Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Doctors are growing increasingly comfortable with the idea of a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The nation’s second-largest physicians group, the American College of Physicians, came out in January in support of Medicare for All. A study from BMJ, a medical journal, found that younger doctors are leaning further ...
Pending “Buy America” Executive Order Threatens Coronavirus Response
This week, as the coronavirus pandemic surges, President Trump is considering an executive order that would result in obstructing the movement of critical medical supplies and treatments. The new order aims to bring the pharmaceutical supply chain back to the United States by forcing federal agencies to “Buy America”—American medical equipment, American ...
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
Coronavirus is not a good argument for ‘Medicare for all’
The novel coronavirus has emerged as the latest justification for “Medicare for all.” This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “When I talk about healthcare being a human right … the coronavirus crisis makes that abundantly clear as to why it should be.” And last week, left-wing wunderkind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ...
The Seth Leibsohn Show Talks Medicare for All, Sanders Health Care Plans with Sally Pipes
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, and author of the book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All,” joined the Seth Leibsohn Show (960 KKNT Phoenix) on what Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden would do to our health care system, including the confusion around the total ...
Surprise billing: Not all fixes are created equal
Congress is still fighting about surprise medical bills. The House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee are both trying to line up bipartisan support for their competing approaches. Neither committee’s approach is right. Congress must go back to the drawing board and come up with a fix ...
Biden and Sanders would both end private health insurance, despite what Biden claims
Self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who says he will launch a political revolution if elected president in November, has made his radical “Medicare-for-all” proposal the centerpiece of his campaign. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is challenging Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, argues correctly that “Medicare-for-all” is unaffordable. Biden wants ...
No, Bernie, ‘Medicare-for-all’ won’t save money
On Feb. 24, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released a document outlining how he plans to pay for his agenda, including “Medicare-for-all.” He claims his signature health plan will save the country billions of dollars each year. That estimate rests on faulty math and flawed assumptions. Medicare-for-all would cost far more than Sanders admits and ...
How Many Billionaires Would It Take to Fund Bernie’s Agenda?
Our colleague Wayne Winegarden wrote a marvelous piece for his Forbes column on “Bernie’s Math Problem.” To fund free health care, free housing, free college and so on, the Democrat frontrunner plans to make “billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.” Why not cut to the chase, thought Winegarden, “Instead ...
Single-Payer Poll Watch Update: Sanders Rises, As Average Support Falls, Confusion Increases for Single-Payer Health Care
One would think that the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to the top of the Democrat presidential nomination list equals growing enthusiasm for the Medicare for All plan he champions. But Sanders’ rise to frontrunner status isn’t doing much to boost the lukewarm attitudes voters give a single-payer health ...
Doctors Who Support Medicare for All Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Doctors are growing increasingly comfortable with the idea of a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The nation’s second-largest physicians group, the American College of Physicians, came out in January in support of Medicare for All. A study from BMJ, a medical journal, found that younger doctors are leaning further ...
