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X out ‘Medicare X’

Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., recently unveiled their “Medicare X” proposal, which would create a public Medicare plan that anyone could purchase. The idea’s supporters are framing it as a moderate counterpoint to “Medicare for all,” which would ban private insurance coverage and force everyone onto a new ...
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PRI Launches New Center for Medical Economics and Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO – California-based nonpartisan think tank the Pacific Research Institute today announced the launch of a new Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, which will research and advance policies showing how a thriving biomedical and pharmaceutical sector benefits both patients and economic growth. Timely research, analysis and commentary relating ...
Commentary

Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas

More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
Business & Economics

Reform Payment Models to Encourage Gene Therapies

Gene therapies are transformative treatments that fundamentally differ from traditional medical and pharmaceutical options because they modify a patient’s DNA in order to address the genetic causes of diseases. These therapies have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of millions of Americans living with life-threatening or life-altering diseases. Since ...
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Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing

Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
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Blocking Medicaid Work Requirements Is Unwise

Medicaid expansion in Kentucky and Arkansas could be on life support. Late last month, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the two states’ attempts to require able-bodied adults to work as a condition of receiving Medicaid coverage. Last week, the federal Department of ...
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Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster

On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Discusses Bernie Sanders’ Updated Medicare-for-All Plan on Wilkow Majority

Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss Bernie Sanders’ updated Medicare-for-All plan on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wilkow-Sally-Pipes-4-10-19.mp3
Health Care

Sally Pipes discusses problems with Medicare-for-All on Chad Benson Show

Listen to “Words not meaning what they used to mean” on Spreaker. Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the problems with Medicare-for-All in England and the various proposals in the United States on the nationally-syndicated Chad Benson Show.
Health Care

Sally Pipes on Future of Obamacare

Experts discuss future of Obamacare after latest ruling By Caitlin Randle Experts who oppose the Affordable Care Act spoke at a conference Tuesday to address its future – now that a Texas federal judge has ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional . . . Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the ...
Commentary

X out ‘Medicare X’

Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., recently unveiled their “Medicare X” proposal, which would create a public Medicare plan that anyone could purchase. The idea’s supporters are framing it as a moderate counterpoint to “Medicare for all,” which would ban private insurance coverage and force everyone onto a new ...
Featured

PRI Launches New Center for Medical Economics and Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO – California-based nonpartisan think tank the Pacific Research Institute today announced the launch of a new Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, which will research and advance policies showing how a thriving biomedical and pharmaceutical sector benefits both patients and economic growth. Timely research, analysis and commentary relating ...
Commentary

Pick your poison on Democrats’ health care ideas

More than 100 House Democrats have signed onto a new bill from Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal that would outlaw private insurance and force everyone into a government-run health plan. Some other Democrats are leery of Jayapal’s bid for “Medicare for All.” So they’ve rolled out more “moderate” measures that would ...
Business & Economics

Reform Payment Models to Encourage Gene Therapies

Gene therapies are transformative treatments that fundamentally differ from traditional medical and pharmaceutical options because they modify a patient’s DNA in order to address the genetic causes of diseases. These therapies have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of millions of Americans living with life-threatening or life-altering diseases. Since ...
Commentary

Medicare ‘buy-in’ proposals would lead to single-payer system, long waits, care rationing

Many Democratic politicians, including those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, believe bigger government is the solution to America’s health care woes. But a handful of centrist Democrats worry full-fledged “Medicare for all” will spook independents. So they have unveiled several seemingly moderate plans that would allow people to buy into Medicare ...
Commentary

Blocking Medicaid Work Requirements Is Unwise

Medicaid expansion in Kentucky and Arkansas could be on life support. Late last month, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the two states’ attempts to require able-bodied adults to work as a condition of receiving Medicaid coverage. Last week, the federal Department of ...
Commentary

Bernie Sanders took his terrible ‘Medicare for all’ idea and made it a disaster

On Wednesday, 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released his updated “Medicare for all” bill. The plan is even more disastrous than its original 2017 iteration. The new bill is not all that different from the one he introduced two years ago. It would still force virtually every person to swap ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Discusses Bernie Sanders’ Updated Medicare-for-All Plan on Wilkow Majority

Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss Bernie Sanders’ updated Medicare-for-All plan on “The Wilkow Majority” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wilkow-Sally-Pipes-4-10-19.mp3
Health Care

Sally Pipes discusses problems with Medicare-for-All on Chad Benson Show

Listen to “Words not meaning what they used to mean” on Spreaker. Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy discuss the problems with Medicare-for-All in England and the various proposals in the United States on the nationally-syndicated Chad Benson Show.
Health Care

Sally Pipes on Future of Obamacare

Experts discuss future of Obamacare after latest ruling By Caitlin Randle Experts who oppose the Affordable Care Act spoke at a conference Tuesday to address its future – now that a Texas federal judge has ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional . . . Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the ...
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