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Medicare for All Could Mean Doctors for None
The Wall Street Journal | Sally C. Pipes
February 10, 2020
That amounts to an enormous pay cut for doctors. U.S. physicians earned on average $313,000 in 2019, according to Medscape’s international physician compensation report. The average physician in the U.K. earned only $138,000. The Commonwealth Fund reports that American general practitioners earned a little more than $218,000 on average in 2016, compared with $146,000 in Canada and $134,000 in the U.K.
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Now an Amazon.com #1 bestseller among policy books (health law books).
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Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All and New Book on the Dennis Prager Show
The Dennis Prager Show | Sally C. Pipes
January 20, 2020
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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Coronavirus could break ‘Medicare-for-all’ — single-payer systems struggle with outbreaks
Featured on FoxNews.com | Sally C. Pipes
February 10, 2020
That’s largely because these countries’ government-run, “Medicare-for-all”-style systems lack enough health care personnel, hospital beds and other resources to meet the needs of their populations even in good times. A public health threat like a pandemic can stretch single-payer health care to its breaking point.
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Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Capitol Public Radio | Sally C. Pipes
February 7, 2020
“The state can scarcely afford the expansions of public health coverage the Newsom administration has already green-lit,” she wrote. “[The commission] shouldn’t need a year, much less six months, to determine that a government takeover of California’s health care system would be ruinous for the state’s finances and patients.”
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Medicare for None
Book Review of False Premise, False Promise
American Thinker | Richard Kirk
February 3, 2020
"When analyzing specific “Medicare for All” proposals, Pipes notes that the program’s popularity disappears when folks discover that it would totally do away with the private insurance held by 253 million Americans (mostly through employers) and would be far from free!"
"Overall, Pipes’s book is predicated on the hope that Americans won’t give up their access to quality medical care if they know that the “free” care they are promised will cost almost as much as the 17% the U.S. now devotes to health care. . ."
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How this gene therapy drug earned it’s $2.1 million price tag
Fortune | Sally C. Pipes
February 7, 2020
The prohibitive cost has been a source of criticism since the drug was approved. In a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Acting Commissioner last August, five U.S. senators, including presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, accused AveXis, the subsidiary of Novartis responsible for the drug, of falsifying testing data to gain FDA approval in a move that “smacks of the pharmaceuticals industry’s privilege and greed.”
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PRI’s Henry Miller Quoted in Yahoo Finance on Wuhan Flu Outbreak
Yahoo! Finance | Anjalee Khemlani
February 7, 2020
Yet according to former FDA medical officer Henry Miller, it does give the company a leg up for manufacturing if a new vaccine is found. Miller, currently a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, told Yahoo Finance Friday that even if a vaccine is found, it isn’t going to be a profitable endeavor for the companies.
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China’s Stranglehold On Pharmaceuticals Threatens Americans’ Health And U.S. National Security
Issues and Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
February 10, 2020
Ironically, most of the world’s supply of masks and respirators, along with other materials essential for health care, comes from manufacturers in China. That creates a vulnerable link in the global supply chain that supports everyday health care in hospitals around the world.
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