Health Care
California
How will big government California recover from the COVID-19 shutdowns?
Running a business in California, particularly a small one, is hard enough in ordinary times. Now the task has become impossible for many. If lawmakers don’t start making wholesale policy changes soon, the future will be more grim than the present. California is on its way to a $15 an ...
Kerry Jackson
April 27, 2020
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Coronavirus Shelter-In-Place Rollbacks on the Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller joins the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show to debate shelter-in-place rollbacks by states and European countries and why it could be too early. Miller and Larson also debate the approaches of other countries and how their infection and death rate compare to the United States. Dr. Miller’s segment ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 27, 2020
Commentary
Coronavirus fight – Would ‘Medicare-for-all’ have improved US response to COVID-19?
The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., may have ended, but his “Medicare-for-all” crusade marches on. Writing in The New York Times last week, Sanders argued that the coronavirus outbreak proved the government should take over our nation’s health care system. Sanders isn’t the only one championing “Medicare-for-all” in the wake of the pandemic. More than half of ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 27, 2020
Commentary
Stop Calling Biden’s Radical Health Agenda ‘Moderate’
After a contentious primary, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Earlier this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has finally endorsed Biden, and the rest of the party is falling in line. Biden largely succeeded by positioning himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to Sen. Sanders and his brand of democratic socialism. But Biden’s ...
Sally C. Pipes
April 27, 2020
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Quoted in Yahoo! on Coronavirus, Hydroxychloroquine Debate
How hydroxychloroquine toes the line between promise and ‘happy talk’ in the coronavirus fight By: Anjalee Khemlani After weeks of polarizing debate over the use of two generic anti-malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the Food and Drug Administration this week warned they were not “safe and effective” when used on ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 27, 2020
Blog
Hardening California’s ‘Progressive’ Wall
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic could be the crisis that his party has been looking for to permanently establish a progressive “nation-state.” “There is opportunity for reimagining a progressive era as it pertains to capitalism,” Newsom said earlier this month, when asked by a ...
Kerry Jackson
April 27, 2020
Blog
What We’re Watching – April 24
Tim Anaya – Taking a Time Machine to a Lower Drug Price Future In the latest video in the “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, Professor Salvare takes Pete Paystoomuch in a time machine to learn how drugs become cheaper after higher initial costs that incentivize innovation. Then they go ...
Pacific Research Institute
April 24, 2020
Blog
March2Success: The Army’s Online Education Tool is Helping Students During COVID-19 School Closures
During the COVID-19 crisis, the efforts of the United States Army have been very prominent, especially Army researchers working on a vaccine and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ incredible work building field hospital facilities around the country. However, also important has been the Army’s provision of free online education ...
Lance Izumi
April 23, 2020
Commentary
Dr. Henry Miller in Wall Street Journal: A Coronavirus Vaccine: Faster, Please
Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are leveling off in hot spots like Seattle and New York. New infections should soon begin to decline, and many parts of the country will be able to start a phased return to “normal.” Yet without a vaccine, normality will look very different than it ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 22, 2020
Business & Economics
Watch: How CA Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
Watch Pacific Research Institute’s inaugural panel webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put ...
Pacific Research Institute
April 22, 2020
How will big government California recover from the COVID-19 shutdowns?
Running a business in California, particularly a small one, is hard enough in ordinary times. Now the task has become impossible for many. If lawmakers don’t start making wholesale policy changes soon, the future will be more grim than the present. California is on its way to a $15 an ...
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Coronavirus Shelter-In-Place Rollbacks on the Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller joins the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show to debate shelter-in-place rollbacks by states and European countries and why it could be too early. Miller and Larson also debate the approaches of other countries and how their infection and death rate compare to the United States. Dr. Miller’s segment ...
Coronavirus fight – Would ‘Medicare-for-all’ have improved US response to COVID-19?
The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., may have ended, but his “Medicare-for-all” crusade marches on. Writing in The New York Times last week, Sanders argued that the coronavirus outbreak proved the government should take over our nation’s health care system. Sanders isn’t the only one championing “Medicare-for-all” in the wake of the pandemic. More than half of ...
Stop Calling Biden’s Radical Health Agenda ‘Moderate’
After a contentious primary, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Earlier this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has finally endorsed Biden, and the rest of the party is falling in line. Biden largely succeeded by positioning himself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to Sen. Sanders and his brand of democratic socialism. But Biden’s ...
Dr. Henry Miller Quoted in Yahoo! on Coronavirus, Hydroxychloroquine Debate
How hydroxychloroquine toes the line between promise and ‘happy talk’ in the coronavirus fight By: Anjalee Khemlani After weeks of polarizing debate over the use of two generic anti-malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the Food and Drug Administration this week warned they were not “safe and effective” when used on ...
Hardening California’s ‘Progressive’ Wall
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic could be the crisis that his party has been looking for to permanently establish a progressive “nation-state.” “There is opportunity for reimagining a progressive era as it pertains to capitalism,” Newsom said earlier this month, when asked by a ...
What We’re Watching – April 24
Tim Anaya – Taking a Time Machine to a Lower Drug Price Future In the latest video in the “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, Professor Salvare takes Pete Paystoomuch in a time machine to learn how drugs become cheaper after higher initial costs that incentivize innovation. Then they go ...
March2Success: The Army’s Online Education Tool is Helping Students During COVID-19 School Closures
During the COVID-19 crisis, the efforts of the United States Army have been very prominent, especially Army researchers working on a vaccine and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ incredible work building field hospital facilities around the country. However, also important has been the Army’s provision of free online education ...
Dr. Henry Miller in Wall Street Journal: A Coronavirus Vaccine: Faster, Please
Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are leveling off in hot spots like Seattle and New York. New infections should soon begin to decline, and many parts of the country will be able to start a phased return to “normal.” Yet without a vaccine, normality will look very different than it ...
Watch: How CA Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
Watch Pacific Research Institute’s inaugural panel webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put ...