The Liberal Proposal to Permanently Extend Obamacare Subsidies
27 August 2021
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses the immense burden on taxpayers of the Democratic effort to expand government subsidies in healthcare, why the subsidies have been a poorly targeted failure, and why Medicare expansion is another disastrous idea under discussion.
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