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<title><![CDATA[Sally C. Pipes - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15119.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sally C. Pipes]]></description><category domain="15119">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Message Won't Fly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/02/bernie_sanders_single-payer_message_wont_fly_136407.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government-run health care is back on the front burner of American politics. Last week, President Trump took a shot at Democrats for pushing for British-style single-payer health care. The United Kingdom's "system is going broke and not working," he wrote on Twitter. 
The president's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders' Single-Payer Fairy Tale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/sally-c-pipes-sanders-single-payer-fairy-tale/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government-run, single-payer health care has proved time and again to be a costly, destructive fantasy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inconvenient Truth About Obamacare's Premium Spiral]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2017/09/05/the_inconvenient_truth_about_obamacares_premium_spiral_110721.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Insurers have until Sept. 5 to reveal what they will charge for coverage through Obamacare's exchanges next year. They are required to finalize their rates by Sept. 5 -- and sign their contracts by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Declaring Independence From Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/declaring-independence-from-obamacare/article/2627708</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who believes that the Senate's previous draft would dismantle Obamacare clearly didn't read it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Millions of Americans Are Paying Extra to Avoid Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/why-millions-of-americans-are-paying-extra-to-avoid-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's open-enrollment season, and millions of Americans are signing up for health insurance on the individual market. ObamaCare's creators expected most, if not all, to head into the law's exchanges.Yet as many as 9 million people decided to go off-exchange for coverage this year,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Bending the Law to Protect Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/stop-bending-the-law-to-protect-obamacare/article/2603849</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is scrambling to keep his signature health reform law intact. A slew of insurers &#195;&#162;?? including industry giants Aetna and United Health &#195;&#162;?? have elected to leave most of the exchanges they initially participated in after sustaining heavy losses over the last two years....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Deficit of Savings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/04/obamacares_deficit_of_savings_127650.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office appears to have delivered a victory to Obamacare's cheerleaders. The agency's latest estimate puts the cost of scrapping the law at $137 billion over the next decade.
"Any way you slice it, repealing the Affordable Care Act will add hundreds of billions of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Import Canada's Ideas on Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/28/dont_import_canadas_ideas_on_health_care__126404.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Move aside, maple syrup. Canada has a hot new export -- single-payer health care.
The New York State Assembly may soon consider legislation that would switch the Empire State to a Canadian-style single-payer system. Maine has expressed interest in doing the same.
So has Congress. Earlier...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shreds of Doubt About Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/sally-pipes-obamacare-promises-unrealized/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week&rsquo;s tax-filing deadline was a little bit more complicated than in the past, thanks to Obamacare.Americans had to prove to the Internal Revenue Service that they had health insurance last year &mdash; or risk a tax penalty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unhappy Birthday, Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-unhappy-birthday-obamacare-article-1.2157297</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare turns five years old today. But there&rsquo;s little to celebrate.When he signed his signature piece of legislation into law, President Obama guaranteed lower health-care costs, universal coverage and higher-quality care. Americans wouldn&rsquo;t have to change their doctors if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Public Sours, Obamacare Faces Uncertain Future]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/021315-739401-challenges-in-court-and-from-public-threaten-obamacare.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a few weeks, ObamaCare's second open enrollment season will close. Unfortunately for the president, the law may not live to see a third open enrollment &mdash; thanks to an increasingly hostile public and a case before the Supreme Court that could render a major part of the law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Death of a Thousand Rate Hikes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2014/08/25/obamacares-death-of-a-thousand-rate-hikes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Get ready to pay more for health insurance next year, compliments of Obamacare.A new analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that average premiums for policies sold through Obamacare&rsquo;s exchanges will increase 7.5 percent in 2015.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Will Kill Job-Based Plans]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/07/03/how-obamacare-will-kill-job-based-plans/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans aren&rsquo;t all that optimistic about ObamaCare, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Fifty-seven percent say the law isn&rsquo;t working as planned.That number will shoot even higher if employer health insurance vanishes, as an S&amp;P Capital IQ report predicts....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seven Steps to Replace Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2534366</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from "The Cure for Obamacare" (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013)President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, "there's not even a pretense now that they're going to replace it with something better."Au contraire. Ideas for "something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The ObamaCare Train Wreck Is Already Happening]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2013/05/27/the-obamacare-insurance-exchange-train-is-already-coming-off-the-rails/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) raised eyebrows across the country last month when he publicly fretted about an Obamacare &ldquo;train wreck&rdquo; as the Administration rushes to implement the many provisions of the law that take effect in 2014.President Obama has attempted to assuage Sen....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Businesses Are Reluctant to Hire: ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2013/03/18/the-more-businesses-learn-about-obamacare-the-more-reluctant-they-are-to-hire/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wondering why the unemployment rate has been near or above 8 percent for nearly four years? The Federal Reserve has an answer for you: Obamacare.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Millions of Americans Face ObamaCare Tax Hikes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2012/12/25/in-2013-millions-of-americans-face-obamacare-tax-hikes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As part of the negotiations over the fiscal cliff, Congress and President Obama are battling over whether to raise marginal tax rates at the very top of the income ladder.Regardless of how these talks turn out, millions of Americans are already facing tax hikes thanks to Obamacare.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's War on Real Health Care Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2012/12/10/obamacares-cruel-war-on-patient-centered-healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In just a few weeks, when the calendar flips to 2013, millions of Americans will get their first taste of Obamacare &mdash; a $2,500 cap on their flexible spending accounts.That&rsquo;s down from the previous $5,000 cap &mdash; and thus equivalent to a tax hike for any family that had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Rationers Argue &quot;It's Good for You&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2012/11/26/obamacares-rationers-employ-the-its-good-for-you-defense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare&rsquo;s backers have a plan to justify their attempts to ration medicine &mdash; by saying that it&rsquo;s good for you.Through 2019, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act &mdash; otherwise known as Obamacare &mdash; will allocate some $3.5 billion toward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deval Patrick's Dangerous New Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2012/08/20/gov-deval-patricks-new-health-law-is-flat-out-dangerous/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beacon Hill was the scene of great fanfare earlier this month when Governor Deval Patrick signed controversial new healthcare reform legislation into law. The governor proudly proclaimed that Massachusetts was &#194;&#147;the first to crack the code&#194;&#148; on the problem of ever-increasing healthcare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Diagnosed as Quackery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20220529obamacare_diagnosed_as_quackery_court_congress_advised_to_quash_it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court hasn&rsquo;t yet rendered its verdict on Obamacare, but the nation&rsquo;s doctors have. And they think it will wreck America&rsquo;s health care system.The latest evidence comes from a new survey of young doctors by the Physicians Foundation. Nearly 60 percent of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Massachusetts Disaster a Preview of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/13/romney-fication-of-health-care-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick just exhorted legislators to overhaul the way the state pays for health care. He&rsquo;s pushing for an end to the traditional arrangement of compensating doctors and hospitals for each service they provide.It&rsquo;s not yet clear what will replace this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where to Start in Repealing ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/01/where-start-repealing-obamacare/2102091</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 23, 2010, President Obama forever altered the American health care system by signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. Its advocates promised that the measure would reinvent American health care and reinvigorate the American economy.As House Minority...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Doctors Agree: ObamaCare Will Make Woes Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/12/26/doctors-say-obamacare-is-no-remedy-for-u-s-health-woes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s doctors have conducted a full examination of the president&rsquo;s health reform law &mdash; and their diagnosis of its effects on our healthcare system isn&rsquo;t good.Nearly two-thirds of doctors expect the quality of care in this country to decline, according to a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ugly Realities of Socialized Medicine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/12/19/the-ugly-realities-of-socialized-medicine-are-not-going-away-3/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The worldwide recession has forced countries around the world to curb public spending &#194;&#151; or risk defaulting on their debt.The United Kingdom is the latest to tighten its belt. The National Health Service (NHS) &#194;&#151; the centralized public agency that runs Britain&#194;&#146;s government healthcare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RomneyCare Is a Disastrous Preview of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/10/31/mitt-romneys-health-care-defenses-still-dont-cut-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&#194;&#146;s no secret that President Barack Obama based his costly, mandate-driven  health care overhaul on Massachusetts&#194;&#146; 2006 reform experiment &#194;&#151; despite former Bay State Governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney&#194;&#146;s claims to the contrary.Ironclad proof surfaced a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Candid Romney Would Own Up to Mass. Fiasco]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/572884/201105201820/Candid-Romney-Would-Own-Up-To-Mass-Fiasco.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts health reform is in the news &mdash; driven by reports of  long waits for care and its architect's presidential ambitions. Former  Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney  delivered a widely panned speech the week before last on health care.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Massachusetts, Higher Health Costs, Longer Waits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/2011/04/25/health-care-mitt-romney.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the landmark Massachusetts health care reform law turned five years old. Democrats were quick to applaud the anniversary, as the Bay State law is the model for the federal health care reform package that passed last year.The anniversary has proved especially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Glimpse of a Future with ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-glimpse-of-a-future-with-obamacare/2011/03/16/ABcNfkRB_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act this week brings new reason to consider a major health-care announcement by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Almost five years into his state&rsquo;s  Romneycare plan, it turns out that spending is out of control,  threatening...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Big Budget Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/07/health-care-budget-opinions-contributors-sally-pipes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sally C. Pipes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats are currently jockeying for position in the  fight over this year's federal budget. The two sides seem miles apart  on spending cuts and other priorities.But this year's budget  battle is only the beginning. Thanks to the new health care law, next  year's budget...]]></description>
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