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. She is the founder and chairman of the Benjamin Rush Institute. She received the State Policy Network’s Roe Award in 2004 and an honorary PhD from Pepperdine University for her work on health-care reform in 2018.

Pipes addresses national and international audiences on health care. She writes a weekly column for Fox News and biweekly columns for Forbes and for the Washington Examiner’s “Beltway Confidential” blog. She has published more than 360 health-care opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and other major outlets. Her comments are included regularly in national media outlets from Politico to the Washington Post. She appears on nationwide radio shows hosted by Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, and Lars Larson, and has argued against Medicare for All on the Intelligence Squared podcast and on Life, Liberty & Levin (Fox News).

In January 2020, Encounter Books will publish False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Her first book, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer, featured a foreword by Milton Friedman. She has since published a number of books about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and health-care reform, including The Pipes Plan: The Top Ten Ways to Dismantle and Replace Obamacare.

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