Under Elizabeth Warren, there’s no choice but government-run healthcare
Featured in Real Clear Health and Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
January 17, 2020
The top story out of this week’s Democratic presidential debate was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s accusation that Sen. Bernie Sanders called her “a liar on national TV.” Both progressive firebrands have a casual relationship with the truth, especially when it comes to their plans for healthcare. But Warren’s pitch has grown ever more misleading.
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Bernie Sanders’ Resurgence Is Bad For America’s Health
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
January 21, 2020
A recent New York Times profile detailed how Sanders first became infatuated with government-run health care in 1987, when he visited Canada to "observe firsthand the government-backed, universal model that he strongly suspected was better." In the three decades since, Canada's version of Medicare for All has steadily crumbled, at great financial and human cost.
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High-Tech Gets The Headlines But Low-Tech Can Cut Health Care Costs And Save Lives
Issues & Insights | Wayne Winegarden and Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
January 20, 2020
Although the miracles of high-tech may capture the imagination and the headlines, there are many simpler and cheaper yet tremendously important innovations for the diagnosis and prevention of illness. Some are easy to monetize via conventional mechanisms, such as patents, periods of exclusivity enforced by regulators, or even good, old-fashioned advertising (as makers of walk-in bathtubs advertise directly to seniors).
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Democratic Candidates Are Sorry for All the Wrong Things
American Greatness | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew Fillat
January 20, 2020
This presidential campaign has raised apologizing to a new art form. Much of it is no more than pandering. A simple explanation that one’s views have “evolved” would, we think, be far more effective. Instead, the pandering has spurred the legions of woke social justice warriors to even greater extremes of political correctness, harassment, and suppression of free speech.
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Yes, The FDA Is In Trouble, But The New York Times’ Prescription Would Make It Worse
The Federalist | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Jeff Stier
January 20, 2020
The FDA is highly bureaucratic and risk averse, leading to a slow and expensive drug approval process—at last count, more than $2.5 billion to bring a new drug to market. Yet the armchair quarterbacks at the Times want to slow it down even more and increase the cost and risks of innovating.
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Single Payer Health Care Support Stagnate in Single-Payer Poll Watch 2020 Update
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
January 16, 2020
And the January 2020 update underscores last month’s findings. Mainly, support for single-payer health care is stagnant and opposition to the proposal is increasing. Three new polls taken in November and December 2019 raised the average favorability slightly, but it’s fallen from a high point of 58 to 60 percent in the beginning of 2019 to an average of 46 percent. |
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