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Don't Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
March 27, 2023
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country.
The White House put out a statement ([link removed]) declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!”
But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances.
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Pharmacy benefit managers are picking patients' pockets
Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
April 3, 2023
Pharmacy benefit managers are in the congressional hot seat. Last Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing examining the middlemen’s impact on patients. Earlier in March, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability launched an investigation into PBM tactics that are “harming patient care and increasing costs for consumers.”
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The Future Of Health Care Is Here, If You Know Where To Look
Forbes | Sally Pipes
March 27, 2023
Nearly half ([link removed]) of Americans say the healthcare system is failing them. Six in ten ([link removed]) report having had a bad healthcare experience. About half ([link removed]) of patients say they have trouble affording health care—even those who are insured. All told, Americans’ satisfaction with their healthcare system hit a new low ([link removed]) in 2022.
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Flaws with Our Current Healthcare System
Right by the Bay | Sally Pipes
March 29, 2023
Editor’s note: Today’s blog is part one of a three part series featuring PRI’s CEO & President Sally Pipes’ health care speech delivered at Reason Weekend on March 18th.
Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
We might be able to say something similar about American health care. A majority of Americans now rate the quality of our country’s healthcare system as fair or poor for the first time in the two decades that Gallup has been measuring public sentiment.
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