Universal Choice Achieves Universal Coverage

Marguerite Bowling / March 16, 2009

Health-care policy doyenne Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, lived under the Canadian health care system — before moving to the United States in 1991 and becoming a citizen in 2006 — and she’s not excited about America’s health system heading in the same direction.

“Understanding health care is like unraveling an onion: There are many tearful moments,” Pipes said at a recent Heritage Lecture about the U.S. health-care reform debate. “When I look at [President Barack] Obama’s plan for health care, I see it leading America to rationed care,” said Pipes, author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.

Part of that concern has come from provisions within the recently enacted U.S. economic stimulus plan that creates the framework and funding for comparative effectiveness research and health information technology. (more…)