False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All

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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 healthcare status quo is unsustainable. America's last attempt at

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There is no better authority on Medicare for All than Sally Pipes, who lived under Canadas government-run health care system and knows firsthand its failings. She brings facts and clear-eyed reality to the debate to show why centralized control over health care is so wrong for America while explaining a better path forward.

Grace-Marie Turner, president, Galen Institute As a former CEO of a successful company, I know how important competition is to ensuring a thriving and innovative industry. If government takes over our health care systemas Sally Pipes knows all too wellAmericans can expect long waits, poor care, and higher taxes. This book presents not only the facts but also the human suffering of Canadians and others living under government-controlled health care. A must-read for those who want to stop single-payer health care from coming to America.

Andy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants

In her brilliant False Premise, False Promise, Sally Pipes dissects Medicare for All, laying bare the defects of all the single-payer proposals hatched by the Leftincluding the horror of urgently needed but fatally delayed treatment as suffered by her mother in the Canadian systemand makes the compelling case for market-based health care as Americas vitally required prescription.

Governor Pete Wilson

People say health care is complicatednot really. Its government that has made it so. And no one can sort through the morass of health care policy and present the issues with such stark clarity as Sally Pipes. In False Premise, False Promise, she exposes the financial and the human costs of a government-run health care system. Death and taxes may be certain, but not Medicare for All, thanks to this new book.

Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, founder and chairman of Laffer Associates

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

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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 Franciscobased 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.