Health Care
Commentary
Arizona Patients Should Welcome Medicaid Work Requirements
Arizona just received the Trump Administration’s go-ahead to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. Under the policy, able-bodied enrollees between the ages of 19 and 49 will have to spend 80 hours a month working, attending school, or giving back to their community in some way. Arizona will be the eighth state ...
Commentary
Progressives’ Prescription Drug Plan Puts Patients At Risk
In mid-January, three Democrats — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, and California Rep. Ro Khanna — introduced legislation that aims to reduce prescription drug prices. Their plan would essentially peg U.S. drug prices to those in five foreign countries where prices are typically lower because their governments forcibly control ...
Commentary
Sleepless in America: Can Technology Help Insomnia?
By Mia Zaharna, MD and Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. Insomnia is a common and often frustrating sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, to stay asleep, or cause you to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep. It can adversely ...
Commentary
‘Medicare-for-all’ means long waits for poor care, and Americans won’t go for it once they learn these facts
This week, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., one of the front-runners in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, revealed her radical vision for American health care – outlawing private health insurance and putting the government in charge of the system. Harris, along with 15 of her Democratic colleagues, supports Sen. Bernie Sanders’, ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All Push on “Focus Today”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go97l3nbOrk&feature=youtu.be Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the latest push by Democrats for “Medicare for All” on “Focus Today”.
Commentary
Israel Cancer Cure Claims Are Literally Unbelievable – Show Us the Data
We are constantly bombarded with media announcements of miraculous breakthroughs in cancer treatment, giving the false impression that the disease is well on the way to being eliminated as a serious threat. But non-experts—including most reporters—often fail to understand that the improvements in prevention, detection, and treatment are not like ...
Agriculture
This May Be the Worst Regulation Ever
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D., and Drew L. Kershen The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created what may be the most bewildering, least cost-effective regulation ever. In July 2016, Congress passed a law mandating that all food containing genetic material that has been modified with recombinant DNA or “gene-splicing” ...
Commentary
You’ve probably never heard of anti-competitive ‘certificate of need’ laws but they’re harming your health care
Imagine if a state law prohibited new restaurants from opening in your town unless an aspiring restaurateur successfully convinced the government that the area “needed” another eatery. Now imagine if that law didn’t stop there – that is also gave incumbent restaurants a say in the matter. If one could persuade the government that ...
Blog
Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?
California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Single-Payer on Lifeline with Craig Roberts
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the fight over single-payer health care on “LifeLine with Craig Roberts” on KFAX 1100 in San Francisco. The interview starts at the 24:20 mark.
Arizona Patients Should Welcome Medicaid Work Requirements
Arizona just received the Trump Administration’s go-ahead to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. Under the policy, able-bodied enrollees between the ages of 19 and 49 will have to spend 80 hours a month working, attending school, or giving back to their community in some way. Arizona will be the eighth state ...
Progressives’ Prescription Drug Plan Puts Patients At Risk
In mid-January, three Democrats — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, and California Rep. Ro Khanna — introduced legislation that aims to reduce prescription drug prices. Their plan would essentially peg U.S. drug prices to those in five foreign countries where prices are typically lower because their governments forcibly control ...
Sleepless in America: Can Technology Help Insomnia?
By Mia Zaharna, MD and Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. Insomnia is a common and often frustrating sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, to stay asleep, or cause you to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep. It can adversely ...
‘Medicare-for-all’ means long waits for poor care, and Americans won’t go for it once they learn these facts
This week, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., one of the front-runners in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, revealed her radical vision for American health care – outlawing private health insurance and putting the government in charge of the system. Harris, along with 15 of her Democratic colleagues, supports Sen. Bernie Sanders’, ...
Sally Pipes Talks Medicare for All Push on “Focus Today”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go97l3nbOrk&feature=youtu.be Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the latest push by Democrats for “Medicare for All” on “Focus Today”.
Israel Cancer Cure Claims Are Literally Unbelievable – Show Us the Data
We are constantly bombarded with media announcements of miraculous breakthroughs in cancer treatment, giving the false impression that the disease is well on the way to being eliminated as a serious threat. But non-experts—including most reporters—often fail to understand that the improvements in prevention, detection, and treatment are not like ...
This May Be the Worst Regulation Ever
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D., and Drew L. Kershen The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created what may be the most bewildering, least cost-effective regulation ever. In July 2016, Congress passed a law mandating that all food containing genetic material that has been modified with recombinant DNA or “gene-splicing” ...
You’ve probably never heard of anti-competitive ‘certificate of need’ laws but they’re harming your health care
Imagine if a state law prohibited new restaurants from opening in your town unless an aspiring restaurateur successfully convinced the government that the area “needed” another eatery. Now imagine if that law didn’t stop there – that is also gave incumbent restaurants a say in the matter. If one could persuade the government that ...
Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?
California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
Sally Pipes Talks Single-Payer on Lifeline with Craig Roberts
Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the fight over single-payer health care on “LifeLine with Craig Roberts” on KFAX 1100 in San Francisco. The interview starts at the 24:20 mark.
