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The False Promise of a Government Takeover of our Health Care System
Right by the Bay | December 10, 2024 | Sally C. Pipes

From a speech recently delivered by PRI President, EO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes to students of the Adam Smith Society at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

A government guarantee of health insurance may sound great. But what good is a Medicare card if you can’t put it to use? Having access to a government health plan is not the same as having access to care.

I have firsthand experience with this reality. I was born and raised in Canada, which has subjected its citizens to single-payer health care for six decades. My mother died after the government forced her to wait for care. I’ve seen how single-payer health care works — or more accurately, doesn’t work.
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Why China Believes Taiwan is an Existential Threat
The Gordon Chang Report | Gordon Chang | December 11, 2024

So far, Taiwan—officially the Republic of China—remains beyond the grasp of Xi’s People’s Republic of China. If events are moving in any direction, they are headed toward permanent separation of the two states.

There are many reasons for the forever division of the two republics, and two mutually incompatible ones stand out. First, most of the people on Taiwan do not think they are “Chinese.” Second, the Chinese in China disagree, believing the people living in Taiwan are of the same blood.
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Making the Incarcerated Work is Not Slavery
Washington Examiner | Wilfred Reilly | December 12, 2024

On Election Day, Bear Flag Republic voters confronted — along with referenda on increased bond funding for public schools and in-state colleges, the creation of a constitutional right to marriage, and an increase in the $16 per hour minimum wage — a proposal to eliminate so-called involuntary servitude, the California Department of Corrections' practice of forcing prison inmates to work.

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