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The Government Didn’t Create the COVID-19 Vaccines

Insides Sources and the Boston Herald | Sally C. Pipes
March 19, 2021

Frankly, the president is giving the government too much credit. While federal grants and purchase agreements certainly helped accelerate vaccine production — by essentially helping companies scale up manufacturing capacity even before they knew whether their vaccine candidates would succeed in clinical trials — the actual research was overwhelmingly performed and funded by the private sector.

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Biden’s Short List For FDA Commissioner: Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Issues & Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Jeff Stier
March 22, 2021

To her (far) left is Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, who served briefly as deputy commissioner of the FDA in the Obama administration, and who formerly was the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health, as well as the health commissioner in Baltimore. Earlier in his career, Sharfstein was the health policy adviser to influential, liberal Congressman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. He is currently the vice dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Just the News with Sophie Mann Interviews Sally C. Pipes on Biden Health Care Proposals

Just the News with Sophie Mann | Sally C. Pipes
March 19, 2021

Sally C. Pipes joins Just the News with Sophie Mann to discuss the changes in healthcare policy being pursued by the Biden administration. Pipes argues that the goal of these proposals is to implement a public option and bring the U.S. one step closer to a Medicare for all or single-payer health care system. Pipes talks about the American Rescue Plan which included a number of healthcare proposals that impact premiums, COBRA coverage, and extended enrollment for healthcare.

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No time for Medicare for All

Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
March 22, 2021

Funding the program will require massive new taxes. Sen. Bernie Sanders has floated a new 4% income tax on households earning over $29,000 and a new 7.5% payroll tax, among other levies, to pay for Medicare for All vision. Sanders’s bill would also set physician reimbursement rates at current Medicare levels — which are far below the market rates that private insurers pay.

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