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 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 of Americans say the healthcare system is failing them. Six in ten report having had a bad healthcare experience. About half 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 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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