Democrats' Price Controls Undermine Biden's Cancer Moonshot
 
Forbes | Sally Pipes
February 8, 2023

President Biden proudly lauded the price controls that Democrats have begun implementing on prescription drugs as part of last August’s Inflation Reduction Act. He also touted his administration’s Cancer Moonshot, which aims to halve the cancer death rate over the next 25 years.

These policies are in direct conflict with one another.


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Washington's Public Option Is Nothing To Cheer About
 
Forbes | Sally Pipes
February 13, 2023

When Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee signed the nation’s first public health insurance option into law in 2019, he claimed it’d ensure that “all Washingtonians have high-quality health-care insurance, an option they can afford that is available across the state.”

Three years in, it hasn’t. Advocates for a public option would do well to take note—and refrain from replicating the policy elsewhere.


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Past time to end COVID-19 emergencies
 
Washington Times | Sally Pipes
February 6, 2023

President Biden announced last week that he would wind down the COVID-19 public health and national emergencies on May 11. A day later, the House voted on party lines to end the emergencies immediately.

The action is long overdue. It’s past time to end these emergencies. They’ve become little more than excuses to funnel taxpayer dollars to politically favored institutions and groups.


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