Sally Pipes Debates Single Payer Health Care in U of Iowa Virtual Debate
U of Iowa | Sally Pipes
April 8, 2022
On April 4, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debated Professor Gerald Friedman from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a major proponent of single payer on the question: “Is a Single-Payer National Insurance System the Best Option for the U.S. to reduce spending, increase access, and improve quality of healthcare?” in a virtual debate hosted by the University of Iowa. Below are her opening remarks and rebuttal.
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It's Time to Take Aim at Scope-Of-Practice Laws
Forbes | Sally Pipes
April 11, 2022
In the last three months, state legislators have introduced more than 70 bills that would modify “scope-of-practice” laws—regulations that set limits on the care physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other qualified professionals can provide to patients.
It’s no wonder why. Many state lawmakers understood the benefits of temporarily relaxing these restrictions as COVID-19 strained the healthcare system. Freeing up physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide more services made it easier for patients to access care during the pandemic. And it gave physicians more time to treat patients with more serious medical issues.
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Pay No Attention to the Healthcare Catastrophe Behind the Curtain
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
April 11, 2022
A new report from the Biden administration purports to be a clear-eyed assessment of where the Affordable Care Act stands after 12 years on the books. In fact, it’s a piece of pro-Obamacare propaganda — and an especially dishonest one at that.
Titled “The State of the ACA,” the study opens with the assertion that Obamacare “is at the strongest point in its history.” For evidence, it points to record-high enrollment on the law’s health insurance marketplaces.
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Paul Mango - Operation Warp Speed
PRI Next Round | Paul Mango
April 11, 2022
Our guest on this podcast is Paul Mango who was Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the conception, development, and implementation of Operation Warp Speed – the U.S.’s effort to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to America and to the world. Paul discusses how the Trump Administration, the U.S. health care industry, the military, and the nation’s best minds in science and medicine came together in a single effort, saving the lives of hundreds of millions around the world.
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Medicare is grabbing the power to ration approved drugs
Detroit News | Sally Pipes
April 8, 2022
On Thursday, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will limit coverage of Aduhelm, the first promising treatment for Alzheimer’s in years, to patients participating in clinical trials.
This precedent is devastating. By curtailing broad access to an FDA-approved medicine, Medicare is essentially declaring that it has the power to ration drugs.
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A Public Option is Still the Wrong Way to Reform Health Care
National Review | Sally Pipes
April 6, 2022
There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the suffering that will result from the supposed ‘middle ground’ between the status quo and a single-payer system.
California officials have recently fined L.A. Care, America’s largest publicly operated health-insurance program, $55 million for letting poor Angelenos suffer and die as they waited months to see specialist doctors. And if advocates for a national “public option” in health care get their way, millions of Americans could soon face similar fates.
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Nurse practitioners can ease our shortage of doctors
East Bay Times | Sally Pipes
April 10, 2022
Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California.
Even in the face of this shortage, only 25 states grant the right of “full practice” to nurse practitioners, or NPs, who could immediately address this problem.
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