Medicare
Business & Economics
Control Spending To Grow The Economy
Milton Friedman used to say, “keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending because that’s the true tax”. Judged against this criterion, despite the recent tax reforms, the U.S. economy is still taxed too much. At the federal level, Congress recently passed another ...
Commentary
X out ‘Medicare X’
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., recently unveiled their “Medicare X” proposal, which would create a public Medicare plan that anyone could purchase. The idea’s supporters are framing it as a moderate counterpoint to “Medicare for all,” which would ban private insurance coverage and force everyone onto a new ...
Commentary
Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas
More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
Commentary
Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing
Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
Commentary
Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster
On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses Bernie Sanders’ Updated Medicare-for-All Plan on Wilkow Majority
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss Bernie Sanders’ updated Medicare-for-All plan on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wilkow-Sally-Pipes-4-10-19.mp3
Health Care
Sally Pipes discusses problems with Medicare-for-All on Chad Benson Show
Listen to “Words not meaning what they used to mean” on Spreaker. Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the problems with Medicare-for-All in England and the various proposals in the United States on the nationally-syndicated Chad Benson Show.
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on Sean Burke Show
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses the latest in the ongoing battle over Medicare for All on the “Sean Burke Show.”
Commentary
Failed federal housing policy undermines Trump’s opioid reforms
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb Over the past two years, President Trump has promoted bold reforms designed to address the opioid crisis. Congress, in a rare bipartisan effort, wholeheartedly supported Trump’s significant reforms, but these initiatives are being undermined by the failures of federal housing policy. In October 2018, ...
Commentary
Britain’s Version Of ‘Medicare For All’ Is Collapsing
Nearly a quarter of a million British patients have been waiting more than six months to receive planned medical treatment from the National Health Service, according to a recent report from the Royal College of Surgeons. More than 36,000 have been in treatment queues for nine months or more. Long waits for care are endemic ...
Control Spending To Grow The Economy
Milton Friedman used to say, “keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending because that’s the true tax”. Judged against this criterion, despite the recent tax reforms, the U.S. economy is still taxed too much. At the federal level, Congress recently passed another ...
X out ‘Medicare X’
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., recently unveiled their “Medicare X” proposal, which would create a public Medicare plan that anyone could purchase. The idea’s supporters are framing it as a moderate counterpoint to “Medicare for all,” which would ban private insurance coverage and force everyone onto a new ...
Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas
More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing
Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster
On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
Sally Pipes Discusses Bernie Sanders’ Updated Medicare-for-All Plan on Wilkow Majority
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss Bernie Sanders’ updated Medicare-for-All plan on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wilkow-Sally-Pipes-4-10-19.mp3
Sally Pipes discusses problems with Medicare-for-All on Chad Benson Show
Listen to “Words not meaning what they used to mean” on Spreaker. Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the problems with Medicare-for-All in England and the various proposals in the United States on the nationally-syndicated Chad Benson Show.
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All on Sean Burke Show
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses the latest in the ongoing battle over Medicare for All on the “Sean Burke Show.”
Failed federal housing policy undermines Trump’s opioid reforms
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb Over the past two years, President Trump has promoted bold reforms designed to address the opioid crisis. Congress, in a rare bipartisan effort, wholeheartedly supported Trump’s significant reforms, but these initiatives are being undermined by the failures of federal housing policy. In October 2018, ...
Britain’s Version Of ‘Medicare For All’ Is Collapsing
Nearly a quarter of a million British patients have been waiting more than six months to receive planned medical treatment from the National Health Service, according to a recent report from the Royal College of Surgeons. More than 36,000 have been in treatment queues for nine months or more. Long waits for care are endemic ...
