38. Sally Pipes: The Case Against Single-Payer Healthcare

Tags: Health

10/25/2018 Michel Accad, MD Anish Koka

Support for a single-payer healthcare system in the United States seems to be growing inexorably. Before we resign ourselves to the inevitable fate of “Medicare-4-All,” it may be prudent to remind ourselves or understand better the arguments against a single-payer system.

Our guest on this episode is Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank dedicated to promoting free market principles across a variety of fields, including education, health care, and the environment. Ms. Pipes is widely published on healthcare issues and a regular contributor to Forbes.com.

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