Health Care
Agriculture
The Brave Old World of Genetic Engineering
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Rob Wager A Washington Post article, “The Future of Food,” discussed the methods we use to breed food crops but suffered from a shortcoming we see often: “pseudo-balance” — the seeking out of clueless commentators to contradict advocates of superior modern genetic modification ...
Commentary
Single-Payer Will Fracture Democrats’ 2020 Coalition
Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders released a new version of his plan for “Medicare for All.” Four of his competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination — Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker — quickly signed on as co-sponsors. They all think Medicare for All is their ...
Featured
Sally Pipes – Medicare for All in the 2020 Campaign
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins us to discuss how Medicare for All is becoming a big issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, the growing push for Medicare for All in Congress and states like California and New York, and how ...
Commentary
Say No To Canadian Drug Imports
Lawmakers in the Sunshine State are looking to our northern neighbor to help them reduce drug prices. The Florida House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would allow the importation and sale of prescription drugs from Canada, where prices are generally lower because the government forcibly controls them. Florida isn’t the ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Responds to $60 Trillion Cost Estimate for Medicare for All
Report: Medicare for All Would Cost $60 Trillion Over First Decade By Christopher Talgo A new report estimates a single-payer health care system in the United States would cost between $54.6 and $60.7 trillion over the first 10 years. Implementation of Medicare for All (M4A) would require enormous tax increases, ...
California
Sally Pipes in Sacramento Bee story on push to expand Medi-cal for the undocumented
Undocumented kids can get health care in California. Gavin Newsom wants it for young adults, too By Sophia Bollag . . . Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented adults younger than 26. That would help young people like Lopez, who lost her eligibility this year when she turned ...
Agriculture
We Don’t Need to Ban Pesticides to Save Bees
Some old ideas for bad laws are endlessly recycled. Take the case of the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a nearly six-year-old initiative now cosponsored by two Democrat representatives, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts. Reintroduced for the fifth time since 2013, the bill would usurp the Environmental ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Share Benefits of Telemedicine With Heartland News
Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times By Leo Pusateri Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, bolstering arguments for the removal of regulatory and legal barriers to the growth of telemedicine. Patients travel an average of ...
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 ...
The Brave Old World of Genetic Engineering
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Rob Wager A Washington Post article, “The Future of Food,” discussed the methods we use to breed food crops but suffered from a shortcoming we see often: “pseudo-balance” — the seeking out of clueless commentators to contradict advocates of superior modern genetic modification ...
Single-Payer Will Fracture Democrats’ 2020 Coalition
Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders released a new version of his plan for “Medicare for All.” Four of his competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination — Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker — quickly signed on as co-sponsors. They all think Medicare for All is their ...
Sally Pipes – Medicare for All in the 2020 Campaign
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins us to discuss how Medicare for All is becoming a big issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, the growing push for Medicare for All in Congress and states like California and New York, and how ...
Say No To Canadian Drug Imports
Lawmakers in the Sunshine State are looking to our northern neighbor to help them reduce drug prices. The Florida House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would allow the importation and sale of prescription drugs from Canada, where prices are generally lower because the government forcibly controls them. Florida isn’t the ...
Sally Pipes Responds to $60 Trillion Cost Estimate for Medicare for All
Report: Medicare for All Would Cost $60 Trillion Over First Decade By Christopher Talgo A new report estimates a single-payer health care system in the United States would cost between $54.6 and $60.7 trillion over the first 10 years. Implementation of Medicare for All (M4A) would require enormous tax increases, ...
Sally Pipes in Sacramento Bee story on push to expand Medi-cal for the undocumented
Undocumented kids can get health care in California. Gavin Newsom wants it for young adults, too By Sophia Bollag . . . Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented adults younger than 26. That would help young people like Lopez, who lost her eligibility this year when she turned ...
We Don’t Need to Ban Pesticides to Save Bees
Some old ideas for bad laws are endlessly recycled. Take the case of the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a nearly six-year-old initiative now cosponsored by two Democrat representatives, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts. Reintroduced for the fifth time since 2013, the bill would usurp the Environmental ...
Sally Pipes Share Benefits of Telemedicine With Heartland News
Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times By Leo Pusateri Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, bolstering arguments for the removal of regulatory and legal barriers to the growth of telemedicine. Patients travel an average of ...
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 ...
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 ...
