Democrats Stage A Phony Retreat On Medicare For All
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
December 9, 2019
During an interview on Bloomberg Television, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “I’m not a big fan of Medicare for All.” New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez recently stated that he would not vote for Sen. Warren’s Medicare for All plan, noting, “I’m not about to take away private insurance from the union members who have worked so hard to negotiate for it.”
Don’t be fooled by this supposed moderation. Every plan offered by Democrats would lead to a full-fledged government takeover of our healthcare system.
Read more . . .
|
|
Sanders, Warren want ‘Medicare-for-all’ like Canada – But Canadian health care is awful
Featured in Fox News and Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
December 8, 2019
It’s true that everyone in Canada has health coverage. But that coverage doesn’t always secure care. According to the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, patients waited a median of nearly 20 weeks to receive specialist treatment after referral by a general practitioner in 2018. That’s more than double the wait patients faced 25 years ago.
|
|
Study confirms the healthcare dangers of a public option
Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
December 6, 2019
Many consumers would drop their private coverage in favor of the cheaper public plan. Those public option patients would yield lower payments for doctors and hospitals. So providers would raise rates for the remaining privately insured population to compensate. Private insurers would pass those increases along in the form of higher premiums. That would drive yet more people to the public option.
|
|
Sally Pipes Talks Single-Payer Healthcare on the Bill Meyer Show
The Bill Meyer Show | Sally C. Pipes
December 6, 2019
Sally C. Pipes is President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, joins the Bill Meyer Show on KMED Oregon to discuss the latest drop in support of Medicare for all and single-payer healthcare. |
|
|
|
