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Don't Believe the 'Medical Bankruptcy' Narrative

Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
January 20, 2022

The dystopian portrait painted by Sanders and his allies doesn’t reflect reality. Medical bills can certainly be onerous to many families. But they’re rarely the sole, or even the main, cause of personal bankruptcies.

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Single-Payer Health Care Will Cost $12,250 per California Household

Right by the Bay | Rowena Itchon
January 19, 2022

The top marginal rate on wage income would rise to 18.05 percent (nationally, the median top marginal rate is 5.3 percent) and the state would adopt a new 2.3 percent gross receipts tax (GRT), at a rate more than 3x that of the U.S.’s highest current pure GRT. All this to fund single-payer’s price tag at $163 billion.
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Obamacare Enrollment Blitz a Bad Sign for the Future of US Healthcare

Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
January 20, 2022

That Americans need to be bribed to purchase exchange coverage is yet more evidence of Obamacare’s dysfunction. By padding exchange enrollment in this way, the Democrats are accelerating many of our healthcare system’s most destructive and unsustainable trends.
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Cutting Through the Lies About Seniors' Favorite Government Program

Cleveland Plain Dealer | Sally C. Pipes
January 21, 2022

Critics posit those extra dollars are wasteful and merely line the pockets of private Medicare Advantage insurers. But in reality, that minor increase yields an incomparable improvement in benefits, satisfaction, and health outcomes for beneficiaries. In other words, the value of any additional expense may well be higher than the expense itself.
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