Wayne Winegarden
Health Care
Wayne Winegarden Talks Healthcare Price Controls with the Pegasus Institute
PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden joins the Pegasus Institute to discuss the danger of price controls in health care including hurting rural health care providers and threatening the already thin margins many hospitals operate on. Winegarden also talks about the impact of the coronavirus and COVID-19. Pegasus Institute · The Problem ...
Commentary
Valuing Innovative Drugs Based On Their Cost Of Manufacturing Will Prolong The Covid-19 Pandemic
The value of innovative medicines has absolutely nothing to do with its cost of production. Yet, not only does this myth persist, it appears to be growing. In the latest example, an article in the Journal of Virus Eradication claims that drugs being repurposed in the hopes they might be effective treatments for ...
Business & Economics
CNBC Article on Stimulus Payments Quotes Wayne Winegarden
Title: Are second $1,200 stimulus checks coming? Here’s what we know By: Lorie Konish, CNBC Capitol Hill has come to a standstill following heated discussions last week on what to include in the next coronavirus stimulus package. One thing they did seem to agree on was another set of $1,200 ...
Business & Economics
Congress Should Stimulate Economic Recovery By Empowering Businesses To Issue Tax-Free Debt
Congress and the Administration continue to debate the next stimulus bill. It will be much more effective, however, if we heed the lessons from the trillions of dollars that have already been spent battling the current recession. Some of the programs have helped individuals and businesses survive the economic lock-downs ...
California
Wayne Winegarden Quoted on Federal Bill That Improves Liability Protections
Title: New federal relief bill includes liability protections during COVID-19 pandemic; ‘An important improvement to the litigation landscape’ By: Sarah Downey Federal lawmakers last week unveiled a stimulus package of COVID-19 relief legislation that includes further payments to unemployed workers and liability protections for health care workers, schools and businesses ...
Commentary
President Trump’s Big Government Instincts Threaten Drug Innovation And Availability
President Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”. It is time for President Trump to learn this wisdom. Along with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Sanders, and Representative Ocasio-Cortez, President Trump seems to believe that giving the ...
California
Wayne Winegarden Sounds Alarm on Bill Impacting Insurance Companies
More legislation under consideration for business interruption claims BY: Sarah Downey, NorCal Record A new California bill addressing business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 outbreak would include rebuttable presumptions that the business losses are pandemic-related and put the burden on insurance companies to show otherwise. Many businesses have had ...
California
Wayne Winegarden Talks Legislating Energy Prosperity Study on Heartland Podcast
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden joined the Heartland Podcast and host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about “Legislating Energy Prosperity,” a new study from PRI and Power the Future analyzing energy regulations in California. Burnett and Winegarden break down the key findings from the study and take a look at the hundreds ...
Business & Economics
Wayne Winegarden Featured in Business Insider Article on Taxing Billionaires, COVID-19
Taxing billionaires would be a great way to fund the fight against coronavirus like AOC says — but only if the US government were drastically different By: Taylor Nicole Rogers, Business Insider The United States needs to find a way to cover the spiraling costs of coronavirus pandemic, but researchers ...
Commentary
Patients Will Suffer The Most From The Trump Administration’s Reference Pricing Scheme
The pharmaceutical industry has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with, arguably, the greatest surge in drug innovation in history. Consider that Remdesivir (produced by Gilead) has already received an emergency use authorization by the FDA for Covid-19. Losmapimod (produced by Fulcrum) is another promising treatment for Covid-19 that is in Phase III trials. And, ...
Wayne Winegarden Talks Healthcare Price Controls with the Pegasus Institute
PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden joins the Pegasus Institute to discuss the danger of price controls in health care including hurting rural health care providers and threatening the already thin margins many hospitals operate on. Winegarden also talks about the impact of the coronavirus and COVID-19. Pegasus Institute · The Problem ...
Valuing Innovative Drugs Based On Their Cost Of Manufacturing Will Prolong The Covid-19 Pandemic
The value of innovative medicines has absolutely nothing to do with its cost of production. Yet, not only does this myth persist, it appears to be growing. In the latest example, an article in the Journal of Virus Eradication claims that drugs being repurposed in the hopes they might be effective treatments for ...
CNBC Article on Stimulus Payments Quotes Wayne Winegarden
Title: Are second $1,200 stimulus checks coming? Here’s what we know By: Lorie Konish, CNBC Capitol Hill has come to a standstill following heated discussions last week on what to include in the next coronavirus stimulus package. One thing they did seem to agree on was another set of $1,200 ...
Congress Should Stimulate Economic Recovery By Empowering Businesses To Issue Tax-Free Debt
Congress and the Administration continue to debate the next stimulus bill. It will be much more effective, however, if we heed the lessons from the trillions of dollars that have already been spent battling the current recession. Some of the programs have helped individuals and businesses survive the economic lock-downs ...
Wayne Winegarden Quoted on Federal Bill That Improves Liability Protections
Title: New federal relief bill includes liability protections during COVID-19 pandemic; ‘An important improvement to the litigation landscape’ By: Sarah Downey Federal lawmakers last week unveiled a stimulus package of COVID-19 relief legislation that includes further payments to unemployed workers and liability protections for health care workers, schools and businesses ...
President Trump’s Big Government Instincts Threaten Drug Innovation And Availability
President Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”. It is time for President Trump to learn this wisdom. Along with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Sanders, and Representative Ocasio-Cortez, President Trump seems to believe that giving the ...
Wayne Winegarden Sounds Alarm on Bill Impacting Insurance Companies
More legislation under consideration for business interruption claims BY: Sarah Downey, NorCal Record A new California bill addressing business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 outbreak would include rebuttable presumptions that the business losses are pandemic-related and put the burden on insurance companies to show otherwise. Many businesses have had ...
Wayne Winegarden Talks Legislating Energy Prosperity Study on Heartland Podcast
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden joined the Heartland Podcast and host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about “Legislating Energy Prosperity,” a new study from PRI and Power the Future analyzing energy regulations in California. Burnett and Winegarden break down the key findings from the study and take a look at the hundreds ...
Wayne Winegarden Featured in Business Insider Article on Taxing Billionaires, COVID-19
Taxing billionaires would be a great way to fund the fight against coronavirus like AOC says — but only if the US government were drastically different By: Taylor Nicole Rogers, Business Insider The United States needs to find a way to cover the spiraling costs of coronavirus pandemic, but researchers ...
Patients Will Suffer The Most From The Trump Administration’s Reference Pricing Scheme
The pharmaceutical industry has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with, arguably, the greatest surge in drug innovation in history. Consider that Remdesivir (produced by Gilead) has already received an emergency use authorization by the FDA for Covid-19. Losmapimod (produced by Fulcrum) is another promising treatment for Covid-19 that is in Phase III trials. And, ...
