Health Care
California
California GOP Congressional Delegation Helps Pass Obamacare Repeal
Key to the House Republicans’ victory on Thursday in repealing and replacing Obamacare was the support of many of California’s 14 GOP congressional members, including three who at the last minute co-sponsored an amendment that adds $8 billion more to fund “high risk pools’’ for millions of Americans with pre-existing ...
Featured
Watch New PRI Animated Video: Imagine What Would Happen If You Never Paid Directly for Your Morning Coffee Again
Video Uses Buying a Cup of Coffee to Break Down Complex Pharmacy Pricing, Shows Americans are Paying More for Less Through Middlemen Like Pharmacy Benefit Managers A new animated video released today by the Pacific Research Institute uses a more understandable market – buying a cup of coffee – to ...
Commentary
What’s Next For Repeal And Replace — 100 Days Into Trump’s Presidency
We’re more than 100 days into Donald Trump’s presidency, and Obamacare is still the law of the land. That’s disappointing — but not catastrophic. Indeed, President Trump himself said last week that he was “disappointed” in House Republicans for failing to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare thus ...
Commentary
The Path To Health Care Reform Starts With Health Savings Accounts
Congress left Washington last week without passing a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. They are now back with an amendment to the failed American Health Care Act. A growing number of Americans aren’t waiting for lawmakers to figure out how to make health insurance more accessible and affordable. They’re ...
Business & Economics
Drug Importation Will Not Improve Health Care Affordability
The growing problem of health care affordability requires prompt and effective policy solutions. However, just as the wrong medical diagnosis will not cure a patient, and may make the patient even sicker, the wrong policy solution will not address the U.S. health care affordability problem, and may even worsen the ...
Business & Economics
New PRI Study Finds That High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Health Care Costs
A more realistic evaluation of U.S. prescription drug prices shows that high drug prices are not actually driving up health care costs overall, and reflect the higher U.S. health care costs compared to the rest of the world, according to a new report released today by the Pacific Research Institute. ...
California
Dear President Trump: Single-Payer Healthcare Is Still A Disastrous Idea
Single-payer healthcare is making a comeback. A new survey by Morning Consult/Gallup finds that 44 percent of American voters support universal, government-run healthcare. Meanwhile, two California state senators introduced the Healthy California Act in February, a bill that would create a single-payer system in the Golden State. Even some prominent ...
Drug Innovation
ISSUE BRIEF: Nevada Proposal To Regulate Excess Costs Are Price Controls By Another Name
Click here to download a copy of PRI’s Issue Brief Senate Bill 265 would require pharmaceutical firms to reimburse insurers for any “excess costs” associated with drugs for diabetes, which are defined as the excess costs over the highest price in other developed countries. The Fiscal Notes on SB 265 ...
Commentary
Scrap Obamacare Subsidies: Trump Could Protect The Constitution And Rejuvenate Congress’ Efforts To Replace This Law
President Trump has a new bargaining chip in the drive to repeal and replace Obamacare. He recently expressed willingness to end the law’s “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies — which reimburse insurers for covering out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and co-pays for low-income exchange enrollees — in order to bring Democrats back to ...
California
Could California Become The Next Canada for Health Care?
State Sen. Ricardo Lara didn’t move to Canada following Donald Trump’s win last November, but he visited last week. While touring a major research hospital in Toronto, he said he realized that American views on providing health care are becoming more Canadian. “One fundamental difference between the United States and ...
California GOP Congressional Delegation Helps Pass Obamacare Repeal
Key to the House Republicans’ victory on Thursday in repealing and replacing Obamacare was the support of many of California’s 14 GOP congressional members, including three who at the last minute co-sponsored an amendment that adds $8 billion more to fund “high risk pools’’ for millions of Americans with pre-existing ...
Watch New PRI Animated Video: Imagine What Would Happen If You Never Paid Directly for Your Morning Coffee Again
Video Uses Buying a Cup of Coffee to Break Down Complex Pharmacy Pricing, Shows Americans are Paying More for Less Through Middlemen Like Pharmacy Benefit Managers A new animated video released today by the Pacific Research Institute uses a more understandable market – buying a cup of coffee – to ...
What’s Next For Repeal And Replace — 100 Days Into Trump’s Presidency
We’re more than 100 days into Donald Trump’s presidency, and Obamacare is still the law of the land. That’s disappointing — but not catastrophic. Indeed, President Trump himself said last week that he was “disappointed” in House Republicans for failing to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare thus ...
The Path To Health Care Reform Starts With Health Savings Accounts
Congress left Washington last week without passing a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. They are now back with an amendment to the failed American Health Care Act. A growing number of Americans aren’t waiting for lawmakers to figure out how to make health insurance more accessible and affordable. They’re ...
Drug Importation Will Not Improve Health Care Affordability
The growing problem of health care affordability requires prompt and effective policy solutions. However, just as the wrong medical diagnosis will not cure a patient, and may make the patient even sicker, the wrong policy solution will not address the U.S. health care affordability problem, and may even worsen the ...
New PRI Study Finds That High Prescription Drug Costs Are Not Driving Up U.S. Health Care Costs
A more realistic evaluation of U.S. prescription drug prices shows that high drug prices are not actually driving up health care costs overall, and reflect the higher U.S. health care costs compared to the rest of the world, according to a new report released today by the Pacific Research Institute. ...
Dear President Trump: Single-Payer Healthcare Is Still A Disastrous Idea
Single-payer healthcare is making a comeback. A new survey by Morning Consult/Gallup finds that 44 percent of American voters support universal, government-run healthcare. Meanwhile, two California state senators introduced the Healthy California Act in February, a bill that would create a single-payer system in the Golden State. Even some prominent ...
ISSUE BRIEF: Nevada Proposal To Regulate Excess Costs Are Price Controls By Another Name
Click here to download a copy of PRI’s Issue Brief Senate Bill 265 would require pharmaceutical firms to reimburse insurers for any “excess costs” associated with drugs for diabetes, which are defined as the excess costs over the highest price in other developed countries. The Fiscal Notes on SB 265 ...
Scrap Obamacare Subsidies: Trump Could Protect The Constitution And Rejuvenate Congress’ Efforts To Replace This Law
President Trump has a new bargaining chip in the drive to repeal and replace Obamacare. He recently expressed willingness to end the law’s “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies — which reimburse insurers for covering out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and co-pays for low-income exchange enrollees — in order to bring Democrats back to ...
Could California Become The Next Canada for Health Care?
State Sen. Ricardo Lara didn’t move to Canada following Donald Trump’s win last November, but he visited last week. While touring a major research hospital in Toronto, he said he realized that American views on providing health care are becoming more Canadian. “One fundamental difference between the United States and ...
