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Ignore Democrats’ dead-end health care ideas

The Washington Times | Sally C. Pipes
May 1, 2021

Under that stimulus package, the government picks up a bigger share of premiums than it used to for everyone making less than 400 percent of the poverty level — about $106,000 for a family of four. Those who make more than that amount qualify for subsidized coverage for the first time; their premiums are capped at 8.5 percent of income.

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Medicare for All Would Put Even More Strain on Doctors

Newsweek | Sally C. Pipes
April 28, 2021

Under Medicare for All, physicians would have to accept Medicare’s rates for every single patient they see. Those payments would be much lower than what doctors currently receive from private insurers—40 percent lower, according to an analysis of a previous bid for Medicare for All championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would’ve put everyone onto government health care within four years.
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Sally C. Pipes Quoted in Capital Public Radio on Single-Payer Health Care

Capital Public Radio | Sammy Caiola
April 30, 2021

"Sally Pipes, president of free-market think tank Pacific Research Institute, said she wasn’t surprised that Assembly Bill 1400 stalled. She called it a repeat of Senate Bill 562, the 2017 single payer legislation that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelved because it was “woefully incomplete”."
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Democratic drug pricing bill is a house of cards

Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
May 3, 2021

But government entities like the NIH don’t develop drugs. The private sector does. Between 2008 and 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved nearly 250 new drugs. Only one-quarter of those medications benefited from any government dollars during the late stages of development, according to a 2019 study.

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