Sally C. Pipes
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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 support 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 Medicaid 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 opposition to single-payer health care.
Ending medical-school affirmative action will be a plus for patients
The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer.
The insane progressive push for 'Medicare for All'
Fifteen senators 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 under Medicare for All. Just ask the millions of people suffering under such systems elsewhere.
The Medicaid poverty trap is growing worse
Medicaid turns 50 today. And an expensive “celebration” it will be. The program now costs taxpayers nearly $500 billion a year. And its costs are projected to increase by almost...
How ObamaCare will kill job-based plans
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 higher...
The false promise of single-payer healthcare
Government-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 —...
Killing with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both reeling 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 ObamaCare 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 health care. Simply put, the president...
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now — but the wheels are already starting to come 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 year would axe...