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Mike Bloomberg has a lot of bad ideas for health care

Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
February 22, 2020

But like many wealthy hopefuls before him, Bloomberg lost big in Sin City. His opponents attacked him on a variety of issues, including health care. Notably, former Vice President Joe Biden critiqued Bloomberg for his past criticisms of ObamaCare, which he now claims to support.
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Rep. Buddy Carter Interviews Sally Pipes on C-SPAN on Medicare for All

C-SPAN | Sally C. Pipes
February 20, 2020

Sally C. Pipes recently sat down on After Words on C-SPAN making the argument against Medicare for All and sharing anecdotes from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Pipes was interviewed by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia).
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Fox News Interviews Henry Miller on Coronavirus Outbreak in Italy

Fox News | Alexandria Hein
February 24, 2020

But Dr. Henry Miller, a senior fellow in health studies at the Pacific Research Institute and a former FDA official, said that while the original theory surrounding a Wuhan food market as the virus origin can be called into question, there is “no evidence at all” that the virus came from a lab.

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Just say no to California’s drug-making plan

The San Francisco Chronicle | Wayne Winegarden
February 24, 2020

In other words, there’s not much room for generic drug prices to decline further. If Newsom’s new drugmaker is going to undercut existing generic prices, it will have to sell its wares at loss-inducing prices. These losses will be compounded by the additional costs the state will incur monitoring its new drug retailing entity.
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Bernie’s Math Problem

Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
February 24, 2020

While $3.1 trillion is a tremendous sum, it is mere spare change in comparison to Senator Sanders’ spending needs. Take just one of his spending programs – Medicare for All. According to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Medicare for All would increase federal spending by $32 trillion over 10-years. Adjusting its assumptions to be consistent with the Mercatus Center’s analysis, and the Urban Institute found that the 10-year cost of Medicare for All was $36 trillion.
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Sally Pipes Discusses New Medicare for All Book with the Heartland Institute

The Heartland Institute | Sarah Lee
February 20, 2020

Sally Pipes recently sat down with Heartland Institute’s health care policy advisor Sarah Lee to discuss her new book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” In her new book, Pipes lays out all the proposals being floated at the moment from presidential candidates who flirt with socialism, and dismantles their arguments using the challenges and outright tragedies of the Canadian health care system and the UK’s National Health Service. . .
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