Sally Pipes
Washington Examiner
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Shouldn't doctors be allowed to own hospitals?
Experts from the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the American Medical Association just released a paper urging Congress to peel back the Affordable Care Act's restrictions on creating and expanding physician-owned hospitals. → Read More
States are turning to the public healthcare option. They shouldn't
One month into the new Congress and it's already clear that neither party will make much progress advancing their vision for healthcare reform. → Read More
Hospitals are still hiding costs
Hospitals aren't complying with a nearly 2-year-old federal rule requiring them to publish their prices, according to new research from PatientRightsAdvocate.org. → Read More
Pipes: What’s really to blame for lower life expectancy?
Much of the decline in life expectancy has little to do with our health care system. → Read More
Medicare for All Wouldn't Have Saved Us From COVID
Could Medicare for All have averted more than 330,000 deaths over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? That's the claim of a new study published by 10 researchers from four → Read More
Drug price controls would limit new medicines
Washington Examiner Senior Editor David Mark joins Sarah Westwood to discuss Biden's recent covid diagnosis and whether or not the situation will turn political as it did when President Trump had the virus. → Read More
There's no epidemic of medical bankruptcy
An estimated 100 million Americans have healthcare debt, according to polling released this month by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The problem is so dire, Kaiser says, that it's pushing millions of people out of their homes or into bankruptcy. → Read More
A bankrupt argument for single-payer health care
Are Americans going bankrupt because of medical debt? Leading progressives seem to think so. → Read More
It's Time To Take Aim At Scope-Of-Practice Laws
Permanently rolling back restrictive scope-of-practice laws—and letting experienced healthcare workers do their jobs—is a common-sense reform that could benefit patients and the healthcare system alike. → Read More
Biden deserves no credit for COVID-19 test website
Covid-19 hospitalizations are decreasing in the Northeast, down 11%, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. However, they are up 15% in the West and up 6% in the South. → Read More
California heads for single-payer havoc with CalCare
CalCare would be a nightmare. → Read More
The Real Reasons for Americans' Low Life Expectancy
An American baby born today can expect to live 77.3 years, on average -- 1.5 years less than Americans born in 2019, and considerably less than newborns in other Western → Read More
Despite What the White House Says, Obamacare Is Deeply Troubled
Rather than try to fix the problems of Obamacare, the Biden administration wants to throw more taxpayer money on the exchanges. → Read More
Pipes: COVID surge hints at true cost of ‘Medicare for All’
Several hospitals in New Mexico activated crisis standards of care last month in response to a surge in COVID-19 patients. Earlier this fall, Alaska and Idaho did the same. In some places, providers were forced to begin rationing treatment based on the likelihood of survival. It was a shocking spectacle for many Americans, accustomed as we are to hospitals with enough beds, equipment, and… → Read More
Biden's new plan isn't any better for your health
Last week, President Joe Biden unveiled a new social spending framework that omitted many of the healthcare provisions Democrats have been calling for. → Read More
Budget Reconciliation Bill's Healthcare Provisions Are Disastrous
Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget resolution could usher in the most radical changes to our healthcare system in decades and move the country toward a government-run, single-payer system. → Read More
Gavin Newsom Is Bad For California's Health
On September 14, the people of California will have the chance to oust Governor Gavin Newsom. His record over his more than two and a half years in power is checkered. Nowhere is that clearer than on health policy. → Read More
Single-payer health care’s deadly waitlists – Press Telegram
Americans should thank their lucky stars that we don’t live in a single-payer system that forces patients to wait years for care. → Read More
Biden Takes Obamacare From Bad to Worse
The main problem with the online marketplaces is that the plans on offer are too expensive, their deductibles too high, and the choices available to shoppers are too meager. → Read More
Biden's Self-Congratulation Can't Cover up Obamacare's Failings
The Biden administration is desperate to depict Obamacare as a success. But the latest coverage figures from HHS tell a different story -- one where more Americans depend on a broken government entitlement and the least well-off patients face additional barriers to care. → Read More