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Dems use coronavirus to push ‘Medicare-for-all,’ but their ploy is based on bad information
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
August 2, 2020

Just this week, 360 Democratic delegates promised to vote against any party platform that doesn’t endorse single-payer health care. In their formal petition, they cite insurance losses from the pandemic as a chief reason why they consider “Medicare-for-all” non-negotiable.
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Don’t Get Too Excited About a Coronavirus Vaccine
Human Events | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 31, 2020

At the announcement, President Trump said the goal would be to have 300 million doses of a vaccine available by the end of this year. Optimism abounds. According to a June survey of 50 health-care executives and investors, nearly all expected a vaccine would eventually be approved in the U.S., and more than half expected approval to occur late this year or in the first quarter of 2021.
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Mourning The Many Foibles Of Medicare And Medicaid At 55
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
July 30, 2020

Medicare’s flawed pay-as-you-go funding arrangement is largely to blame. Using payroll taxes from current workers to cover the healthcare costs of Americans 65 and older might have been workable in a time of low life expectancy and a rapidly expanding workforce. Forty years ago, there were about four workers for every Medicare beneficiary.
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COVID-19 makes routine vaccinations more important
Cincinnati Enquirer | Sally C. Pipes
August 3, 2020

A recent study of patients in Michigan found a significant reduction in vaccinations among all age groups. As of late May, fewer than half of the state’s five-month-old children had received all recommended vaccinations. In previous years, that figure was well over 65%.
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Price Controls Won’t Solve Drug Affordability Problem

The Professor explains to Pete that some of the claims that he’s heard on TV about drug price controls are just spin. He shows Pete that whatever name you call them, drug price controls will reduce innovation and threaten people’s access to life-saving medicines.

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