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Nevada unions don’t trust ‘Medicare for all’ to manage their healthcare

Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
February 14, 2020

Nevada’s culinary union, an influential force in the state’s upcoming caucuses, just fired a shot across the bow of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In flyers, emails, and text messages, the union warned its members that Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan would “end Culinary Healthcare.”
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Sally Pipes Exclusive Interview on Health Care with the Epoch Times' Siyamak Khorrami

California Insider, The Epoch Times | Siyamak Khorrami
February 16, 2020

Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, joins the California Insider program with the Epoch Times to discuss the failures of a government run, single-payer health care system.
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Is a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon? Antiquated FDA regulations make it unlikely one will emerge in the US

TheStreet | Adam Smith
February 17, 2020

“There’s no evidence of that,” said Dr. Henry I. Miller, who for many years worked at the Food and Drug Administration, including as an assistant to the commissioner for biotechnology, and currently is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, which is described as a “free-market think tank.” But, Dr. Miller said in an email to TheStreet, the possibility that the virus has spread undetected here also “can’t be ruled out.”
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Democratic presidential candidates would all end private health insurance eventually

Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
February 16, 2020

It’s easy to see why even many Democrats oppose “Medicare-for-all.” It would outlaw private insurance and force every American into a new government-run health plan. Taxpayers would be on the hook for more than $40 trillion in new federal spending over a decade.
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You can’t tax people out of their sugary drinks

The Patriot-News | Sally C. Pipes
February 13, 2020

All these measures ignore a damning fact — soda taxes don’t work. They may displace soda sales. But they don’t typically reduce them. Consumers adapt by simply going outside the city limits to get their drinks. In some cases, consumers just switch to even less healthy beverages.
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