LPA Foundation

Issues Forum: Health Care

Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

The GOP’s Obamacare Replacement: Better Than Good

June 27, 2016

Last week, the GOP kept a promise to the American people by delivering a replacement plan for Obamacare. The plan — part of the party’s “A Better Way” campaign — was unveiled by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. “What we are laying out today is a first-time-in-six-years consensus by the Republicans in the House on […]

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Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

Hello, HillaryCare?

June 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton is within striking distance of the White House. Last week, she secured enough delegates to ensure that she’ll be the Democrats’ presidential nominee, barring any hiccups. According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton would beat Donald Trump — the presumptive Republican presidential nominee — if the election were tomorrow. So she has […]

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Health Care

Health Care

Johnson And Weld Are Right, Clinton Is Wrong: Congress Should Privatize The VA

June 3, 2016

Listening to Hillary Clinton put her big-government ideology before the needs of veterans (see video) brings to mind an email exchange I had recently with a correspondent who had questions about privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Health Administration. The video is an interview with Libertarian presidential and vice presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Bill […]

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Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

America Marches Blindly Toward Single-Payer

May 16, 2016

Hillary Clinton just dipped her toe a little bit further into the waters of single-payer health care, prodded by her competitor for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders. Last week, she called for allowing more people to join Medicare — the government-run healthcare program for seniors — by allowing those “55 or 50 and up” […]

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Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

For GOP Health Reformers, No Sleep Til Cleveland

May 2, 2016

The Republican National Convention is less than three months away. The party may not have settled on a presidential nominee by then. But if the GOP’s top elected official, Speaker Paul Ryan, has his way, Republicans will arrive in Cleveland with a brand-new plan for replacing Obamacare. The time is right. Insurers are leaving Obamacare’s […]

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