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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.

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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

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 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

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Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Prior to becoming president of PRI in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada. 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. As a former international 747 pilot for Delta Airlines, Capt. Pamela Almand's smooth, low-pitched voice from the flight deck calmed and reassured her passengers and crew through routine flights as well as emergencies. Now, with over a decade of professional award-winning SAG/AFTRA voice acting experience with Audie Award nominations, AudioFile Earphones Awards, and Voice Arts Awards and numerous nominations, her voice has not only enthusiastic professionalism and authority in nonfiction titles, but also conversational and compelling story-telling warmth and depth for multiple accents, genders, and ages in fiction titles. Medical, business, and technical nonfiction titles come naturally, the result not only of growing up the daughter of a Colorado cattle rancher and moving into a highly technical aviation career, but also aided by naturally clear diction and a neutral English, easy-to-understand style. Pamela is continuously honing her skills and has coached with Scott Brick, Paul Ruben, Carol Monda, Johnny Heller, Patrick Fraley and others and is an Audible Approved Producer. Pam works from her professional recording studio for clients all over the world, including Tantor, Blackstone Publishing, Brilliance Audio, Vibrance Press, Oasis Publishing, World Wide AudioBooks, Verity Publishing, Two Words Publishing, Suspense Publishing, Author's Republic, and ACX.

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