Sally C. Pipes

Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Her latest book is “The Way Out of Obamacare” (Encounter 2016). Follow her on Twitter @sallypipes.

FILE – A Medicaid office employee works on reports at Montefiore Medical Center, Nov. 21, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Medicaid can’t survive without spending cuts

April 29, 2025 at 7:03 a.m.

Republicans shouldn't shy away from their proposals to reform Medicaid.

Millions of children, young adults through age 25 and adults 50 or over have signed up for Medi-Cal services. Each year, benefits often change due to related budget decisions. (SCNG)

OPINIÓN: California no puede permitirse la atención médica gratuita para inmigrantes indocumentados

April 21, 2025 at 12:23 p.m.

Ofrecer beneficios tan generosos a los no ciudadanos fue irresponsable en el mejor de los casos.

California can’t afford free health care for undocumented immigrants

April 19, 2025 at 12:54 p.m.

Stretching California's already fraying safety net even further, to cover people who aren't here legally, is not comion. It's fiscal malpractice.

FILE - In this July 17, 2019 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks about his "Medicare for All" proposal at George Washington University in Washington. Sanders had a heart attack, his campaign confirmed Friday, Oct. 4, as the Vermont senator was released from a Nevada hospital. Sanders' campaign released a statement from the 78-year-old's Las Vegas doctors that said the senator was stable when he arrived Tuesday at Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Why we should say no to Medicare for All

October 18, 2019 at 8:32 p.m.

Politicians have been debating how to improve U.S. health care for years. The idea of adopting a national single-payer health care system, also known as “Medicare for All,” sparks strong...

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