Sally C. Pipes
Background
Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO and Thomas W. Smith fellow in health-care policy at the Pacific Research ♏Institute and founder and chairman of the Benjamin Rush Institute. Her latest book is “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.”
Latest Articles
Kamala Harris aims to 🎃hide her long record of backing Medicare for All
There's a good reason Kamala Harris is suddenly running away from her previous supp♛ort of Medicare for 🧔All: Such single-payer systems haven't worked elsewhere — and it's not what US...
👍 Government programs are WIDENING black-white health disparities
For decades, federal-welfare programs like Medica🍬id have overpromised and underdelivered.
🙈 Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for
A group of New England doctors pressed the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates this month to drop the organization’s opposition𓆉 to single-payer health care.
Ending medical-school affirmative action will be a plus for patients ꦛ
The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officerꦉs from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer.
The insane progressive push for 'Medicare for All'
Fifteen s♐enators and more than 100 House members recently introduced legislation that would launch a federal takeover of the US health-insurance system and install "Medicare for All."
The real cost of 'Medicare for All' could be American lives
Bernie Sanders is wrong to think Americans would fare better u🌠nder Medicare for All. Just ask thꦦe millions of people suffering under such systems elsewhere.
The Medicaid poverty trap is growing wo𓂃rse🍎
Medicaid turns 50 today. And an expensive “celebration” it will be. The program now 𓂃costs taxpayers nearly $500 billion a year. An♍d its costs are projected to increase by almost...
How O💞bamaCare will kill job-based p꧙lans
Americans aren’t all that optimistic about ObamaCare, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Fifty-seven percent say the law isn’t working as planned. That number will shoot even hi🗹gher..♋.
The false promise of s♒ingle-payer healthcare
Govern🐭ment-run, single-payer health care is back in vogue. It’s the left’s favored fallback as ObamaCare fails. And the Senate just held a hearing on single-payer systems in other countries —... ꦜ
Ki🌞lling with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both ree🔴li൲ng from outbreaks of bacterial meningitis. The strain afflicting the two campuses can’t be prevented by the vaccine that college freshmen typically get...
A tax even Chuck 💜Schumer hates
🅠 Among the five new ObamaCa💟re tax hikes that kicked in Jan. 1, one in particular is attracting opposition from both Republicans and Democrats: the tax on medical devices. Last month,...
BamCare’s war on women
President Obama leads Mitt Romney among women — for now. That will change if voters focus on what the ObamaCare law does to their h🐲ealth care. Simply put, the president...
How ObamaCare is already failing ༒
A key technocratic gimmick of O🦂bamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now — but the wheels are already starting to coꦍme off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers...
LOSING BY 'SAVING'
TO help close New York's $4.4 billion budget deficit, Gov. Spitzer has put pre scription drugs on the chopping block. His budget proposal for the next fiscal ye💜ar would axe...