Health Care
Commentary
Holding WHO Accountable
The Covid-19 pandemic should be a wakeup call that there is something very wrong—irreparable, even—at the World Health Organization. This revelation shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, the WHO is a constituent of the relentlessly incompetent and politicized United Nations. From the beginning, government officials, health experts, and analysts ...
Blog
Don’t Inject Critical Race Theory Into Healthcare
Should hospitals give preferential care based on race? One hospital in Boston thinks so, using critical race theory as a basis for “medical reparations.” Of every demographic, black Americans face the most risk for adverse health outcomes in the United States. We should concern ourselves with decreasing that risk. But ...
Commentary
Biden Tries to Buy Votes With Fix of Obamacare Family Glitch
President Obama made news last week by returning to the White House for the first time since he left office. The reason for his visit? A policy announcement by the current president about the former president’s eponymous healthcare law. The Biden administration wants to fix the so-called “family glitch” — a flaw ...
Commentary
It’s Time To Take Aim At Scope-Of-Practice Laws
In the last three months, state legislators have introduced more than 70 bills that would modify “scope-of-practice” laws—regulations that set limits on the care physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other qualified professionals can provide to patients. It’s no wonder why. Many state lawmakers understood the benefits of temporarily relaxing these restrictions as COVID-19 strained ...
Commentary
Pay No Attention to the Healthcare Catastrophe Behind the Curtain
A new report from the Biden administration purports to be a clear-eyed assessment of where the Affordable Care Act stands after 12 years on the books. In fact, it’s a piece of pro-Obamacare propaganda — and an especially dishonest one at that. Titled “The State of the ACA,” the study opens with the ...
Commentary
Attention Seniors — Medicare Isn’t Free
About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Many may soon leave the workforce and claim the Medicare benefits they believe they’re entitled to after paying Medicare taxes for decades in the workforce. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Even after paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Coronavirus
Paul Mango – Operation Warp Speed
Our guest on this podcast is Paul Mango who was Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the conception, development, and implementation of Operation Warp Speed – the U.S.’s effort to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to America and to the world. Paul discusses ...
Commentary
Nurse practitioners can ease our shortage of doctors
Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California. Even in the face of this shortage, only 25 states grant the right of “full practice” to ...
Commentary
Medicare is grabbing the power to ration approved drugs
On Thursday, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will limit coverage of Aduhelm, the first promising treatment for Alzheimer’s in years, to patients participating in clinical trials. This precedent is devastating. By curtailing broad access to an FDA-approved medicine, Medicare is essentially declaring that ...
Crime
Sally Pipes Debates Single Payer Health Care in U of Iowa Virtual Debate
On April 4, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debated Professor Gerald Friedman from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a major proponent of single payer on the question: “Is a Single-Payer National Insurance System the Best Option for the U.S. ...
Holding WHO Accountable
The Covid-19 pandemic should be a wakeup call that there is something very wrong—irreparable, even—at the World Health Organization. This revelation shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, the WHO is a constituent of the relentlessly incompetent and politicized United Nations. From the beginning, government officials, health experts, and analysts ...
Don’t Inject Critical Race Theory Into Healthcare
Should hospitals give preferential care based on race? One hospital in Boston thinks so, using critical race theory as a basis for “medical reparations.” Of every demographic, black Americans face the most risk for adverse health outcomes in the United States. We should concern ourselves with decreasing that risk. But ...
Biden Tries to Buy Votes With Fix of Obamacare Family Glitch
President Obama made news last week by returning to the White House for the first time since he left office. The reason for his visit? A policy announcement by the current president about the former president’s eponymous healthcare law. The Biden administration wants to fix the so-called “family glitch” — a flaw ...
It’s Time To Take Aim At Scope-Of-Practice Laws
In the last three months, state legislators have introduced more than 70 bills that would modify “scope-of-practice” laws—regulations that set limits on the care physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other qualified professionals can provide to patients. It’s no wonder why. Many state lawmakers understood the benefits of temporarily relaxing these restrictions as COVID-19 strained ...
Pay No Attention to the Healthcare Catastrophe Behind the Curtain
A new report from the Biden administration purports to be a clear-eyed assessment of where the Affordable Care Act stands after 12 years on the books. In fact, it’s a piece of pro-Obamacare propaganda — and an especially dishonest one at that. Titled “The State of the ACA,” the study opens with the ...
Attention Seniors — Medicare Isn’t Free
About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Many may soon leave the workforce and claim the Medicare benefits they believe they’re entitled to after paying Medicare taxes for decades in the workforce. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Even after paying tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Paul Mango – Operation Warp Speed
Our guest on this podcast is Paul Mango who was Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the conception, development, and implementation of Operation Warp Speed – the U.S.’s effort to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to America and to the world. Paul discusses ...
Nurse practitioners can ease our shortage of doctors
Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California. Even in the face of this shortage, only 25 states grant the right of “full practice” to ...
Medicare is grabbing the power to ration approved drugs
On Thursday, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will limit coverage of Aduhelm, the first promising treatment for Alzheimer’s in years, to patients participating in clinical trials. This precedent is devastating. By curtailing broad access to an FDA-approved medicine, Medicare is essentially declaring that ...
Sally Pipes Debates Single Payer Health Care in U of Iowa Virtual Debate
On April 4, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debated Professor Gerald Friedman from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a major proponent of single payer on the question: “Is a Single-Payer National Insurance System the Best Option for the U.S. ...
