A Debate on National Health Insurance: Who Should Foot the Bill of Healthcare?
The PPC is proud to co-sponsor this University Lecture Committee event featuring Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute and Gerald Friedman of the University of Massachusetts.
Sally Pipes
Sally C. Pipes is President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Prior to becoming president of PRI in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.
In January 2020, Encounter Books published Ms. Pipes’ latest book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All, which reached #1 on Amazon’s Health Law bestseller list. The book exposes the problems with “Medicare for All” plans or stepping-stone approaches to M4A, details the horrors of single-payer systems in Canada and the U.K. with real-life stories, and offers a workable vision for delivering the affordable, accessible, quality care Americans are seeking.
Ms. Pipes is a frequently called upon guest for media interviews, speeches/debates, and meetings with policymakers, sharing her ideas for solutions that would provide better quality and access to health care while lowering costs. In September 2019, she and her debate partner won a prestigious Intelligence Squared debate, arguing against the motion, “Replace Private Insurance with Medicare for All.”
Ms. Pipes published nearly 1200 op-eds (including reprints) in publications nationwide in 2021, and writes regular columns for Forbes.com, Newsmax, and the Washington Examiner’s “Beltway Confidential” blog.
In April 2018, she received an honorary Ph.D from Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy for her work on health care reform.
Gerald Friedman
Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Executive Director of the Hopbrook Institute, Gerald Friedman graduated from Columbia College in 1977 and earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1986. In addition to his 1998 book, State-Making and Labor Movements. The United States and France, 1876-1914, he has written Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic labor movement (2008) and Microeconomics: Individual Choice in Communities (4th edition 2018) and is the author of numerous articles on topics in the labor history of the United States and Europe, on the evolution of economic thought, labor economics, economic theory, the history of slavery in the Americas, and on current economic issues. He has also drafted funding plans for campaigns for single-payer health insurance in Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, and for the United States.
Friedman’s latest book, The Case for Medicare for All, appeared in March 2020 with Polity Press. He is currently writing a new economic history of the United States entitled Imperial Democracy.
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