False Premise, False Promise, Sally C. Pipes
False Premise, False Promise, Sally C. Pipes
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False Premise, False Promise
The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All

Author: Sally C. Pipes, Tom A. Coburn

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Medical Law


Synopsis

A native of Canada with direct experience under a single-payer system, Pipes debunks the Medicare for All plans touted by Democrat contenders.American health care is at a crossroads. Health spending reached $3.5 trillion in 2017. Yet more than 27 million people remain uninsured. And it’s unclear if all that spending is buying higher-quality care.Patients, doctors, insurers, and the government acknowledge that the status quo is unsustainable. America’s last attempt at health care reform—Obamacare—didn’t work. Nearly a decade after its passage, Democrats are calling for a government takeover of the nation’s health care system: Medicare for All.Supporters of Medicare for All assert the right to health care, promising universal, high-quality care to all Americans at no cost. With a sales pitch like that, it’s no wonder the idea has broad support. Democrats, particularly progressive ones, hope to capitalize on this enthusiasm.Here Sally C. Pipes makes a case against Medicare for All. Using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the UK she explains how single-payer health care makes a litany of promises it can’t possibly keep.Between unpacking the plans under consideration in Congress—including the real costs behind the claims—and detailing the horrors of single-payer care in other countries, Pipes highlights how Americans actually fare better than their peers in Canada and the UK on health outcomes. Included are heart-wrenching stories of the human costs of free, universal, government-run health care systems.Pipes concludes with her vision for delivering the affordable, accessible, quality care the American people are looking for.

About Sally C. Pipes

Sally C. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care and the economy. She has extensive media experience, including appearances on the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, and The Glenn Beck Program. Pipes is a regular columnist for Chief Executive, Investor’s Business Daily, and the Examiner newspapers, and her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and more. She lives in California.

About Tom A. Coburn

Tom A. Coburn, former United States senator for Oklahoma, is a family medicine and obstetrics physician who maintained his medical practice and delivered more than four hundred babies during his tenure in Congress. President George W. Bush selected him to cochair the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

About Pamela Almand

Pamela Almand, a former international 747 pilot for Delta Airlines, launched an unlikely second career after appearing in a national television spot for Tylenol in 1995. Several regional spots for Northwest Airlines followed, and she began narrating training and industry videos, built a professional recording studio, and launched the Captain’s Voice. Since then, Pamela has provided voice-over for major corporate clients worldwide, including Microsoft, Disney, Canadian Realtors, the United Nations, Zurich, International Red Cross, and the hotels and casinos of Monte Carlo. She is a SAG/AFTRA voice actor and audiobook narrator with multiple awards and nominations from the Audio Publishers Association’s Audie Awards, Society of Voice Arts and Sciences’ Voice Arts Awards, and AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award. She lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her husband, Amos.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stan

While the individual stories provide an example of various points in the book. The opposition view could do the same. Also can find one case opposite any opinion. I’m not criticizing the author but want to state a fact. The book does show at a macro level how much of the media has misinformed the pu......more


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“Sally Pipes dissects “Medicare for All,” laying bare the defects of all the single-payer proposals hatched by the Left—including the horror of urgently needed but fatally delayed treatment as suffered by her mother in the Canadian system—and makes the compelling case for market-based health care as America’s vitally required prescription.” Governor Pete Wilson

“A highly readable, thoroughgoing and devastating indictment of Medicare for All. Pipes makes the convincing case that such a single payer scheme in America would have horrific consequences for the health of just about everyone. It would also kill innovation.” Steve Forbes