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Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on the Dennis Prager Show
Sally C. Pipes joins the Dennis Prager Show to talk about the dangers of Medicare for All and to share insights from her new book on single-payer health care called False Promise, False Premise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
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Medicare for None
“Medicare for All,” were it subjected to truth in labeling criteria, would more accurately be named “Medicare for None.” This is a point made early in Sally Pipes‘s succinct but detailed analysis of the socialized medicine programs offered by Bernie Sanders and other Democratic POTUS candidates. Her book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous ...
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Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
Commentary
Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
Commentary
Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
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Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue
One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer health care to almost dead ...
Commentary
American health care needs more competition, not less, to bring down prices
Here’s a newsflash: when businesses don’t need to compete for customers, they tend to raise prices. Yet the progressive remedy to perpetually escalating health-care costs is not to increase competition — it’s to eliminate it completely and put the government in charge of health care, via Medicare for All. There’s ample ...
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What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
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States Should Not Resurrect The Individual Mandate
Several states have resurrected the most-hated part of Obamacare—the individual mandate. Residents of California, Rhode Island, and Vermont must secure health insurance or pay a fine as of the beginning of this year. New Jersey and the District of Columbia implemented their mandates in January 2019. And Massachusetts’s state-level mandate has been in force since 2006. These mandates will fail to ...
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While Americans pine for ‘Medicare for all,’ Canadians look for US-style private insurance
About 56% of people in the United States favor “Medicare for all,” according to polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation out last week. That’s an increase of 3 percentage points from last November. That majority would be wise to take a look across our northern border. Waits for care in Canada’s government-run health ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on the Dennis Prager Show
Sally C. Pipes joins the Dennis Prager Show to talk about the dangers of Medicare for All and to share insights from her new book on single-payer health care called False Promise, False Premise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Medicare for None
“Medicare for All,” were it subjected to truth in labeling criteria, would more accurately be named “Medicare for None.” This is a point made early in Sally Pipes‘s succinct but detailed analysis of the socialized medicine programs offered by Bernie Sanders and other Democratic POTUS candidates. Her book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous ...
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
On Jan. 31, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the head of the president’s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. The coronavirus has claimed more than 900 lives around the world so far, including that of Dr. ...
Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
Last week, Gavin Newsom’s Healthy California for All Commission convened for the first time. The commission has been tasked with figuring out how to install a single-payer healthcare system statewide. The commission’s 13 voting and five non-voting members represent a who’s-who of big-government academics, union leaders, and public health officials. ...
Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue
One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer health care to almost dead ...
American health care needs more competition, not less, to bring down prices
Here’s a newsflash: when businesses don’t need to compete for customers, they tend to raise prices. Yet the progressive remedy to perpetually escalating health-care costs is not to increase competition — it’s to eliminate it completely and put the government in charge of health care, via Medicare for All. There’s ample ...
What I’d tell California’s single-payer commission
On Jan. 27, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new commission exploring the viability of bringing government-run, single-payer health care to the Golden State met for the first time. As a California-based health care scholar who’s studied single-payer for more than 30 years, I hoped Newsom would ask me to join the business leaders, medical ...
States Should Not Resurrect The Individual Mandate
Several states have resurrected the most-hated part of Obamacare—the individual mandate. Residents of California, Rhode Island, and Vermont must secure health insurance or pay a fine as of the beginning of this year. New Jersey and the District of Columbia implemented their mandates in January 2019. And Massachusetts’s state-level mandate has been in force since 2006. These mandates will fail to ...
While Americans pine for ‘Medicare for all,’ Canadians look for US-style private insurance
About 56% of people in the United States favor “Medicare for all,” according to polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation out last week. That’s an increase of 3 percentage points from last November. That majority would be wise to take a look across our northern border. Waits for care in Canada’s government-run health ...
