California Can Look Forward to Socialized Medicine If Single-Payer Returns

Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
January 13, 2022

As evidence from other countries shows, single-payer invariably leads to rationing, subpar care, physician shortages, and unnecessary suffering often caused by the long waits endemic to government-sponsored care.

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Opinion: Build Back Better's Medicare Drug-Payment Cap Worth Saving

Mercury News | Sally C. Pipes
January 17, 2022

The proposal would save not just money but lives by helping ensure that patients take their medications in the right quantities at the right time. It’s an idea worth considering on its own if Build Back Better fails — or if Democrats cut it from a new version of the bill.

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The Fundamental Flaws of the Third-Party Payer System

Coverage Denied Series | Wayne Winegarden
January 12, 2022

Part 1 of the Coverage Denied series documented how distortions in the U.S. healthcare system turned the important financial risk management service of health insurance into a barrier to care and an important driver of health care inflation.

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Universal Health Care Back For Another Try 

Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
January 17, 2022

Opponents are predicting jobs losses, a higher cost of living, and the end of medical care choices if a universal system is put in place. If so, it would be legitimate to wonder, with more than nine in 10 Californians already covered, if the overhaul of a critical system is worth the added costs and the unintended consequences.

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