Health Care
Commentary
Learn how price controls will make health care problems worse
Price Controls, Subsidies Won’t Fix Healthcare
The price of health insurance has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Average annual premiums for employer-based family plans have risen by 22% percent since 2018, to nearly $24,000. It’s tempting to see these hikes as a shameless cash-grab by avaricious insurers. ...
Commentary
Read latest about push for drug price controls
U.S. consumers shouldn’t be seduced by drug importation dreams and promises
Republicans, meanwhile, are embracing the price controls that foreign countries impose on prescription drugs. Texas recently enacted a law seeking approval from the Biden administration to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, my native land. Texas now joins Republican-led Florida and New Hampshire in pressing for a way to import ...
Government Spending
Read about cost of latest state health care mandate
Sally Pipes Quoted in Center Square Article on $25 Health Care Minimum Wage
“Increasing the minimum wage to $23 per hour starting in 2024 and reaching $25 in 2026 for health care workers in medical facilities with 10,000 or more employees is fiscally irresponsible, particularly at a time when the state is facing a severe budget deficit,” said Sally Pipes, president and Thomas ...
Commentary
Read about new speaker's health care agenda
Speaker Johnson Sensible About Health Care
Previously, Johnson served as chair of the House Republican Study Committee. During his tenure, the committee released “A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care” — a detailed, commonsense plan for addressing some of our nation’s most daunting health care challenges. If he makes that plan a legislative priority in the months ...
Commentary
Seniors are disappointed with efforts to lower Medicare costs — and rightly so
But wait, the law’s proponents may say: The federal government hasn’t yet exercised its power to “negotiate” — or more accurately, cap — the prices of drugs in Medicare. Those price controls may save the federal government money. But patients won’t see much of the savings. The federal government has ...
Commentary
The Federal Trade Commission’s Assault On Growth
The FTC’s mission is to protect consumers by ensuring that markets are competitive, not to protect competitors. Presumably, the Commissioners imagine that the theoretical harm to competitors will somehow make consumers worse off, but if this sounds far-fetched, this is precisely what an FTC administrative judge concluded when hearing the ...
Commentary
Read latest about problems with Obamacare
Open Enrollment is a Warning, Not a Cause for Celebration
Obamacare’s open enrollment period kicks off this week. Each year around this time, the Affordable Care Act’s defenders mobilize to tout its supposed benefits and to encourage people to purchase coverage on the exchanges it created. From the halls of Congress to the White House, we can expect to see ...
Commentary
Read about problems with 340B program
Incompetence, Abuse Comprise 340B Health Program
There’s a paradox at the center of American healthcare policy. The government will spend just shy of $2 trillion subsidizing healthcare this year — including over $500 billion on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. But low-income Americans still struggle to afford care. According to one recent poll by the ...
Coronavirus
PRI Covid Tradeoffs Brief Receives National Coverage
PRI Brief on Tradeoffs from COVID-19 Restrictions Featured in National Review
Economist Wayne Winegarden and policy associate McKenzie Richards of the nonpartisan, pro-free-market Pacific Research Institute recently authored a research brief detailing how more-severe Covid-19 mitigation policies — namely lockdowns, masking mandates, school and business closures, and social distancing — led to reduced infection and mortality rates, but at the expense of ...
Commentary
Read latest about single-payer healthcare
Most Americans don’t want Medicare for All
But according to recent polling, neither claim is true. Americans are broadly happy with the existing health insurance system. And single-payer would manifestly worsen — not solve — the problems Americans do face under the status quo. Read the full article at the Boston Herald
Learn how price controls will make health care problems worse
Price Controls, Subsidies Won’t Fix Healthcare
The price of health insurance has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Average annual premiums for employer-based family plans have risen by 22% percent since 2018, to nearly $24,000. It’s tempting to see these hikes as a shameless cash-grab by avaricious insurers. ...
Read latest about push for drug price controls
U.S. consumers shouldn’t be seduced by drug importation dreams and promises
Republicans, meanwhile, are embracing the price controls that foreign countries impose on prescription drugs. Texas recently enacted a law seeking approval from the Biden administration to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, my native land. Texas now joins Republican-led Florida and New Hampshire in pressing for a way to import ...
Read about cost of latest state health care mandate
Sally Pipes Quoted in Center Square Article on $25 Health Care Minimum Wage
“Increasing the minimum wage to $23 per hour starting in 2024 and reaching $25 in 2026 for health care workers in medical facilities with 10,000 or more employees is fiscally irresponsible, particularly at a time when the state is facing a severe budget deficit,” said Sally Pipes, president and Thomas ...
Read about new speaker's health care agenda
Speaker Johnson Sensible About Health Care
Previously, Johnson served as chair of the House Republican Study Committee. During his tenure, the committee released “A Framework for Personalized, Affordable Care” — a detailed, commonsense plan for addressing some of our nation’s most daunting health care challenges. If he makes that plan a legislative priority in the months ...
Seniors are disappointed with efforts to lower Medicare costs — and rightly so
But wait, the law’s proponents may say: The federal government hasn’t yet exercised its power to “negotiate” — or more accurately, cap — the prices of drugs in Medicare. Those price controls may save the federal government money. But patients won’t see much of the savings. The federal government has ...
The Federal Trade Commission’s Assault On Growth
The FTC’s mission is to protect consumers by ensuring that markets are competitive, not to protect competitors. Presumably, the Commissioners imagine that the theoretical harm to competitors will somehow make consumers worse off, but if this sounds far-fetched, this is precisely what an FTC administrative judge concluded when hearing the ...
Read latest about problems with Obamacare
Open Enrollment is a Warning, Not a Cause for Celebration
Obamacare’s open enrollment period kicks off this week. Each year around this time, the Affordable Care Act’s defenders mobilize to tout its supposed benefits and to encourage people to purchase coverage on the exchanges it created. From the halls of Congress to the White House, we can expect to see ...
Read about problems with 340B program
Incompetence, Abuse Comprise 340B Health Program
There’s a paradox at the center of American healthcare policy. The government will spend just shy of $2 trillion subsidizing healthcare this year — including over $500 billion on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. But low-income Americans still struggle to afford care. According to one recent poll by the ...
PRI Covid Tradeoffs Brief Receives National Coverage
PRI Brief on Tradeoffs from COVID-19 Restrictions Featured in National Review
Economist Wayne Winegarden and policy associate McKenzie Richards of the nonpartisan, pro-free-market Pacific Research Institute recently authored a research brief detailing how more-severe Covid-19 mitigation policies — namely lockdowns, masking mandates, school and business closures, and social distancing — led to reduced infection and mortality rates, but at the expense of ...
Read latest about single-payer healthcare
Most Americans don’t want Medicare for All
But according to recent polling, neither claim is true. Americans are broadly happy with the existing health insurance system. And single-payer would manifestly worsen — not solve — the problems Americans do face under the status quo. Read the full article at the Boston Herald
