Here's How Lawmakers Can Slash Medicare Spending Without Cutting Benefits
 
Forbes | Sally Pipes
May 30, 2023

Fortunately, there's a way for lawmakers to rein in Medicare spending without cutting benefits. By giving seniors vouchers to spend on privately managed Medicare plans, lawmakers can cut costs while increasing quality of care.


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Bill Smith of the Pioneer Institute talks his new book 'Rationing Medicine' and QALYs on PRI Next Round
 
PRI Next Round | Bill Smith
May 23, 2023

Bill Smith of the Pioneer Institute in Massachusetts joins Wayne and Tim to discuss his important new book “Rationing Medicine”, which focuses on an obscure economic concept called QALYs – or quality adjusted life years.  Government bureaucrats in Europe use QALYs to deny access to life saving medications for patients.  Some in the U.S. are pushing for the adoption of QALYs as a way to address high prescription drug costs.  Learn how QALYs would jeopardize health care innovation and harm patients.


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State Public Plans No Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
May 26, 2023

A divided Congress has prevented “Medicare for All” from taking off. So progressive activists have turned their attention to the states. Several have launched “public options,” health plans chartered by the state to compete against private insurers.


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Scope-of-practice reforms can address doctor shortage
 
Boston Herald | Sally Pipes
May 22, 2023

America is facing a chronic doctor shortage. Solving that problem will require not just more doctors but a much bigger role for advanced-practice nurses in our healthcare system.


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