Already, benefit mandates at the state level force up premiums by an average of 10.5%, according to PacificResearchInstitute scholar Dr. Benjamin Zycher.
Sally Pipes is president of the PacificResearchInstitute and the author of Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer.
What Pipes must have meant to say is that policymakers should pay heed to the indictment of the 44 percent surveyed who believe the law is taking us in the wrong direction while completely ignoring the other 44 percent whose verdict does not jive with the political agenda of the PacificResearchInstitute and its funding sources.