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A Decade Of Obamacare Has Been Ten Years Too Many

Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
March 20, 2020

For starters, there's compelling evidence that Medicaid doesn't do much to improve patient health. One famous study compared patients in Oregon who had been randomly selected for Medicaid with a group of uninsured Oregonians. The authors concluded that, after two years, "Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes" for enrolled patients as opposed to those with no insurance at all.

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Dr. Henry Miller Talks Coronavirus Shutdowns on the Lars Larson Show

The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
March 20, 2020

Dr. Henry Miller joined the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show to talk about the latest updates with the coronavirus, including the rapid spread of the number of cases in the United States and across the globe and how different states have reacted to the threat of COVID-19. Miller also talks about the questionable coverage by both sides of the media on the coronavirus.
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Obamacare’s 10th anniversary: A trillion dollars and nothing to show for it

The Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
March 23, 2020

Obamacare requires insurers to cover 10 “essential health benefits,” including maternity and child care, even for people who didn’t need them. The law also forbids insurers from charging sick people more than healthy people or charging sicker, older enrollees any more than three times what they charge healthy, younger ones.
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Population Testing Is Critical To Managing The Coronavirus Pandemic

Issues & Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and John Cohrssen
March 23, 2020

The CDC’s worst-case scenario would crush the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds, with less than a 10th of those for the critically ill. But worst-case scenarios are, by definition, intended to depict the extreme, not taking into consideration mitigation strategies.
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Sally Pipes and Andrew Wilkow Discuss the Latest News on the Coronavirus Epidemic

The Wilkow Majority, Siriux XM Patriot Channel 125 | Sally C. Pipes
March 19, 2020

Sally C. Pipes joins Andrew Wilkow to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and how countries are responding to the explosion of COVID-19 cases in their own borders. Andrew hosts the Wilkow Majority on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125.
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A Simple Lesson from a Hockey Great for Coping with the Coronavirus

The Bridge | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
March 23, 2020

Anticipating what’s coming is especially important in confronting an emerging infectious disease whose dynamics and possible impacts we don’t yet know. If we react too slowly to changing circumstances, we can fall off a metaphorical cliff.
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