Politics aside, fixing Medicare isn't brain surgery
 
Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
February 17, 2023

Democrats and Republicans are accusing one another of trying to “cut” Medicare .

The finger-pointing obscures the reality that both parties will eventually have to make cuts to the program. It’s a matter of arithmetic. The country has fewer and fewer workers available to fund the healthcare of more and more seniors.


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Bernie Sanders Twists the Truth about American Health Care
 
National Review | Sally Pipes
February 19, 2023

Lately, Sanders has been asserting that “85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured.” That figure comes from a September 2022 study by the Commonwealth Fund, which claimed that 43 percent of working-age Americans — 85 million people — are “inadequately insured.”


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A Short-Term Solution To Our Long-Term Health Insurance Affordability Problems
 
Daily Caller | Sally Pipes
February 18, 2023

The president is upset that Republicans want to undo the innovation-destroying price controls on prescription drugs included in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act and rein in the billions of dollars in subsidies he’s handing out to prop up Obamacare’s exchanges.

He’s conveniently ignoring some of Republicans’ own ideas for making health insurance more affordable.


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Nothing Life Giving About 'Quality Adjusted'
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
February 15, 2023

Should the government put a price on human life? The new head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., doesn’t think so. She recently introduced legislation alongside several of her colleagues to ban the use of “quality-adjusted life years,” or QALYs, in federal healthcare programs.


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