Generous Obamacare Subsidies Expire At The End Of The Year. That's A Good Thing. 
 
Forbes | Sally Pipes
June 6, 2022

At the end of the year, the generous subsidies for health insurance purchased through Obamacare’s exchanges that were enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act last March are set to expire. People may start receiving notices that their premiums are increasing in October, just a few weeks before this fall’s midterm elections.


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Single-Payer 'Medicare for All' Would Inflate Americans' Healthcare Bills
 
Times of San Diego | Sally Pipes
June 7, 2022

Inflation is ripping through every sector of the U.S. economy. But there’s one curious exception: healthcare.

The cost of medical care is up 3.5% in the last year. The overall inflation rate, by contrast, is nearly two-and-a-half times higher — 8.3%.


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Let's Not Be So Quick to Lower Medicare Eligibility Age
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
June 6, 2022

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office takes a close look at one of the most wasteful and unnecessary healthcare proposals on the Democratic agenda — reducing Medicare’s eligibility age to 60.

Joe Biden endorsed the idea as a candidate for president. But it’s never made much sense. Medicare’s Part A hospital insurance trust fund is already on the cusp of insolvency. Expanding it would saddle taxpayers with immense new costs.


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