The Ever Changing and Never Ending Negative Consequences of ObamaCare
25 July 2014
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how ObamaCare will kill employer-based health plans and why the problem with health care is not high drug prices.
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