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The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle Obamacare

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The Pipes Plan makes the choice in health care clear--the country can either continue to follow President Obama and congressional Democrats down the costly road of mandates and centralization or we change course and move to a system based on freedom and individual choice. Pipes chronicles Obamacares early failures--high risk pools that cost millions but enroll few and state-based exchanges that states decline to create. Since the the book came out, the CLASS has been repealed as an unworkable fraud. Americans can be sure the new taxes will not be repealed. This book is a must read for concerned Americans who want a prescription for sound health policy.

I listened to Ms.Pipes hawk her book on Coffee and Markets and was less than impressed. It's the same-old-same-old we must dismantle Obamacare, let's give everyone a health saving plan as a solution, talk that hasn't gone much of anywhere.

It ignores that consumers must have cash to participate in HSA plans. I'm not opposed to the gov't funding HSA's for folks to give it a try, but don't feel that it is the solution to rising costs.

One good investigation into an illness can blow through $10,000 in no time. Once you're past your deductible and the coverage kicks in where's the cost containment?

She talks like extending coverage to 26 y/o is a bad thing. In today's market some 19-26 y.o can buy coverage at prices their parents might be able to afford, but some, particularly if they've ever seen a doctor, can't. I know this because I've shopped and purchased coverage for my college-aged children.

SHe talks like eliminiating pre-existing conditions as a reason to refuse coverage is a bad thing. If you've never been sick it's not a problem. Try have a run-in with cancer or diabetes or whatever and see what you think about that.

Conservatives have a problem with replacing Obamacare because they ignore how hard it is to find affordable coverage on todays' markets. Try buying coverage and see for youself! She mentions that she's from Canada and is glad she doesn't get care there. First off that tells me she's insured here. I know many Canadians with cancer. Sometimes they gripe about drugs/treatments that are available to those with good coverage in the US, but none of them would trade because they don't even want to think about what would happen to them in the US if they didn't have coverage.

So, IMO, the author has rehashed the past and added much value.