Drug Pricing
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden Drug Pricing Study Featured in Healthcare Finance News
Drug supply chain, pricing system reforms will slash healthcare costs, says PRI By Jeff Lagasse As the Trump administration pushes for price caps and government controls to address prescription drug prices, a new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute contends ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 23, 2020
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 13, 2020
Blog
Taxpayers Exhausted from Newsom’s Marathon Budget Presser
Gov. Newsom’s announcement of his 2020-21 State Budget plan on Friday was another whopper, his speech clocking in at roughly 2 hours and 47 minutes. Last year, reporters who were used to covering a 30 minute press conference where caught off guard by Newsom’s lengthy presentation. Los Angeles Times reporter ...
Tim Anaya
January 13, 2020
Blog
Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug Price Increases
As each new year begins, the increases in the list prices of drugs are announced. And, following these announcements, the political class complains that something must be done. This year, following the price announcements, Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted “Enough is enough” while Senator Grassley emphasized that a “call to action” ...
Wayne Winegarden
January 8, 2020
Drug Pricing
NEW STUDY shows that Reforming Supply Chain & Drug Pricing System Will Lower Health Care Costs
As Washington pushes for price caps and government controls to address prescription drug prices, a new issue brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute argues that reforming the complex drug supply chain and ending the current drug pricing system that overcharges ...
Wayne Winegarden
January 8, 2020
Commentary
Democrats’ health care mistakes of 2019 – five things they keep getting wrong
Whether on the debate stage or in the halls of Congress, over the past year Democrats have misled the public on just about every major health care issue. As 2019 draws to a close, let’s look at the five biggest things Democrats got wrong on health care this year. Supporters of “Medicare-for-all” routinely ...
Sally C. Pipes
December 30, 2019
Commentary
To Help Patients, Reform The Drug Pricing System Don’t Impose Price Controls
Yesterday the House passed the ill-considered “Pelosi bill” that would impose draconian price controls on drugs. Ignoring the bill’s many adverse impacts, price control advocates like Speaker Pelosi appear to believe that these command and control schemes can solve the systemic health care affordability problem. But, as the latest government data illustrates, ...
Wayne Winegarden
December 13, 2019
Commentary
USMCA Will Help American Patients
President Trump has often said that he wants to lower drug prices, in part by ending foreign “freeloading.” That’s a laudable goal. Through price controls and other ham-handed policies, too many nations undervalue medical innovation. This leaves Americans with the majority of the world’s research burden. Unfortunately, in an attempt ...
Sally C. Pipes
December 5, 2019
Commentary
Trump drug pricing proposal would doom future cures
President Trump wants to make a deal on drug prices. But his latest proposal could grind medical innovation to a halt. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said last week that the president was looking for “most favored nation status,” whereby the United States got “the best deal among ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 27, 2019
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden Discusses Drug Price controls on Jim Bohannon Show
Wayne Winegarden, Director for PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discusses the many problems with drug price controls on the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show.
Wayne Winegarden
November 13, 2019
Wayne Winegarden Drug Pricing Study Featured in Healthcare Finance News
Drug supply chain, pricing system reforms will slash healthcare costs, says PRI By Jeff Lagasse As the Trump administration pushes for price caps and government controls to address prescription drug prices, a new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute contends ...
Wayne Winegarden – Why the Pelosi and Newsom Approaches to Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, breaks down recently-proposed plans in Washington and Sacramento that emphasize price caps and more government control to address prescription drug prices. He discusses the conclusions of his new study on America’s drug pricing challenge, which makes the case ...
Taxpayers Exhausted from Newsom’s Marathon Budget Presser
Gov. Newsom’s announcement of his 2020-21 State Budget plan on Friday was another whopper, his speech clocking in at roughly 2 hours and 47 minutes. Last year, reporters who were used to covering a 30 minute press conference where caught off guard by Newsom’s lengthy presentation. Los Angeles Times reporter ...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug Price Increases
As each new year begins, the increases in the list prices of drugs are announced. And, following these announcements, the political class complains that something must be done. This year, following the price announcements, Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted “Enough is enough” while Senator Grassley emphasized that a “call to action” ...
NEW STUDY shows that Reforming Supply Chain & Drug Pricing System Will Lower Health Care Costs
As Washington pushes for price caps and government controls to address prescription drug prices, a new issue brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute argues that reforming the complex drug supply chain and ending the current drug pricing system that overcharges ...
Democrats’ health care mistakes of 2019 – five things they keep getting wrong
Whether on the debate stage or in the halls of Congress, over the past year Democrats have misled the public on just about every major health care issue. As 2019 draws to a close, let’s look at the five biggest things Democrats got wrong on health care this year. Supporters of “Medicare-for-all” routinely ...
To Help Patients, Reform The Drug Pricing System Don’t Impose Price Controls
Yesterday the House passed the ill-considered “Pelosi bill” that would impose draconian price controls on drugs. Ignoring the bill’s many adverse impacts, price control advocates like Speaker Pelosi appear to believe that these command and control schemes can solve the systemic health care affordability problem. But, as the latest government data illustrates, ...
USMCA Will Help American Patients
President Trump has often said that he wants to lower drug prices, in part by ending foreign “freeloading.” That’s a laudable goal. Through price controls and other ham-handed policies, too many nations undervalue medical innovation. This leaves Americans with the majority of the world’s research burden. Unfortunately, in an attempt ...
Trump drug pricing proposal would doom future cures
President Trump wants to make a deal on drug prices. But his latest proposal could grind medical innovation to a halt. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said last week that the president was looking for “most favored nation status,” whereby the United States got “the best deal among ...
Wayne Winegarden Discusses Drug Price controls on Jim Bohannon Show
Wayne Winegarden, Director for PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discusses the many problems with drug price controls on the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show.