Wayne Winegarden
Commentary
Price Controls On Doctors Are A Pathway To Socialized Medicine
Advocates for Medicare for All and other socialized medicine schemes are now in pole position. Although government distortions drive the system’s adverse outcomes, the U.S. is now on autopilot driving toward a full socialized healthcare system. Read the full article at Forbes.com
Commentary
Improving The FDA’s Regulatory Process Can Enhance Treatment Options
Peter Marks, director of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research noted that “vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of Covid-19, including hospitalization and death.” But what is the protection for those Americans who can’t take the vaccine? Read the ...
Covid-19
Wayne Winegarden on Lars Larson Show: Did Covid Restrictions Wreck Our Economy For Nothing?
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his new brief “No Solutions, Only Tradeoffs,” which explores how the small health benefits generated by state COVID-19 lockdowns were more than offset by huge losses in ...
Commentary
Read Wayne Winegarden's latest at Fox News
New study reveals why Americans are fleeing big cities
Apologists for the declining cities will cite COVID-19 as a causal explanation and even optimistically claim that the declines have moderated. Such blind optimism overlooks the obvious – people are leaving big cities like San Francisco, New York and Boston because of bad public policy choices in those cities. They’re ...
Free Cities
NEW FREE CITIES REPORT
New ‘Free Cities Index’ Ranks America’s Best and Worst Pro-Growth Cities
SACRAMENTO – Cities that promote pro-growth policies, encourage entrepreneurship, and efficiently provide core public services ranked at the top of a new “Free Cities Index” of the nation’s most 50 populous cities released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click ...
Blog
Read latest about state pension problem
ESG and CalPERS Sub-par Investment Returns
CalPERS has one core social responsibility – maximizing returns to help secure the retirement of millions of current and future pensioners. The pension fund is also a major proponent of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. CalPERS claims that ESG “disclosures provide important metrics to understand how a company’s practices ...
Commentary
Greater Immigration Can Alleviate Troubling Skilled Nurse Shortage
Immigration, always a strength for the U.S. economy, has the potential to fill a dangerous and growing labor shortage of skilled nurses. According to nurse.org’s 2023 State of Nursing report, “91% of nurses believe the nursing shortage is getting worse, and 79% report that their units are inadequately staffed.” And it’s not just ...
Blog
Read more about broken 340B program
340B Advocates Strike Back
There are many reasons why government programs fail to deliver on their intentions, regardless of how well meaning they may be. The rhetoric from too many 340B recipients exemplifies a primary obstacle: Reforms that are necessary to correct a program’s glaring flaws or its fundamental unsustainability are demagogued and labeled ...
Commentary
Bipartisan Price Transparency Reforms Will Improve Outcomes
Beneficial healthcare change is occurring – in a bipartisan manner too. The reform, referred to as the Transparency in Coverage (Tic) rule, improves the functioning of the healthcare market; and unlike the calls for price controls or increased government distortions, improving the efficiency of the healthcare market can achieve the ...
Business & Economics
Read why tort reform is important for the economy
Tort Reform Offers A Win-Win Stimulus For The Economy
Alleviating the long-term burdens created by tort abuse should be a top priority regardless of the economic outlook. Considering our current economic struggles, however, the benefits from effective tort reform are more important than ever. The inflationary surge that began in mid-2021, even if it is ending, has left far ...
Price Controls On Doctors Are A Pathway To Socialized Medicine
Advocates for Medicare for All and other socialized medicine schemes are now in pole position. Although government distortions drive the system’s adverse outcomes, the U.S. is now on autopilot driving toward a full socialized healthcare system. Read the full article at Forbes.com
Improving The FDA’s Regulatory Process Can Enhance Treatment Options
Peter Marks, director of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research noted that “vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of Covid-19, including hospitalization and death.” But what is the protection for those Americans who can’t take the vaccine? Read the ...
Wayne Winegarden on Lars Larson Show: Did Covid Restrictions Wreck Our Economy For Nothing?
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics and director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his new brief “No Solutions, Only Tradeoffs,” which explores how the small health benefits generated by state COVID-19 lockdowns were more than offset by huge losses in ...
Read Wayne Winegarden's latest at Fox News
New study reveals why Americans are fleeing big cities
Apologists for the declining cities will cite COVID-19 as a causal explanation and even optimistically claim that the declines have moderated. Such blind optimism overlooks the obvious – people are leaving big cities like San Francisco, New York and Boston because of bad public policy choices in those cities. They’re ...
NEW FREE CITIES REPORT
New ‘Free Cities Index’ Ranks America’s Best and Worst Pro-Growth Cities
SACRAMENTO – Cities that promote pro-growth policies, encourage entrepreneurship, and efficiently provide core public services ranked at the top of a new “Free Cities Index” of the nation’s most 50 populous cities released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click ...
Read latest about state pension problem
ESG and CalPERS Sub-par Investment Returns
CalPERS has one core social responsibility – maximizing returns to help secure the retirement of millions of current and future pensioners. The pension fund is also a major proponent of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. CalPERS claims that ESG “disclosures provide important metrics to understand how a company’s practices ...
Greater Immigration Can Alleviate Troubling Skilled Nurse Shortage
Immigration, always a strength for the U.S. economy, has the potential to fill a dangerous and growing labor shortage of skilled nurses. According to nurse.org’s 2023 State of Nursing report, “91% of nurses believe the nursing shortage is getting worse, and 79% report that their units are inadequately staffed.” And it’s not just ...
Read more about broken 340B program
340B Advocates Strike Back
There are many reasons why government programs fail to deliver on their intentions, regardless of how well meaning they may be. The rhetoric from too many 340B recipients exemplifies a primary obstacle: Reforms that are necessary to correct a program’s glaring flaws or its fundamental unsustainability are demagogued and labeled ...
Bipartisan Price Transparency Reforms Will Improve Outcomes
Beneficial healthcare change is occurring – in a bipartisan manner too. The reform, referred to as the Transparency in Coverage (Tic) rule, improves the functioning of the healthcare market; and unlike the calls for price controls or increased government distortions, improving the efficiency of the healthcare market can achieve the ...
Read why tort reform is important for the economy
Tort Reform Offers A Win-Win Stimulus For The Economy
Alleviating the long-term burdens created by tort abuse should be a top priority regardless of the economic outlook. Considering our current economic struggles, however, the benefits from effective tort reform are more important than ever. The inflationary surge that began in mid-2021, even if it is ending, has left far ...
