Health Care
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To See the Fallacy of H.R. 3 (Lower Drug Costs Now Act) Just Look at the Inflation Data
Railing about sky high drug prices makes good political theater and helps drum up support for the latest attempt to impose drug price controls (H.R. 3 or the Lower Drug Costs Now Act). This accusation also perpetuates misinformation. If implemented, H.R. 3 would endanger patient access to current efficacious medicines ...
Commentary
The White House Continues Its Campaign To Deny People Insurance Choices
The Biden administration is continuing its onslaught against health plans that don’t have their seal of approval. At a congressional hearing last month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra agreed with Rep. Kathy Castor’s, D-Fla., characterization of short-term health plans as “junk” insurance—and promised to scrutinize a Trump-era rule ...
Commentary
Democrats Ask All the Wrong Questions About the Public Option
The public option is back on the congressional docket. Last week, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who helms the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued an open request for information on how to implement a ...
Obamacare
Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session
The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies. Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
Blog
Newsom’s “Comeback” Plan for Small Businesses
Back in February, Tim Anaya and I interviewed for PRI’s Next Round podcast Cynthia Ariosta and Carl Dene, small business owners in Napa Valley, to get their perspective on Gov. Newsom’s COVID restrictions on small businesses. This heart-wrenching interview was one of our most listened to podcasts this year. In ...
Commentary
Telemedicine is here to stay
This week, lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills that could preserve access to telehealth for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries beyond the pandemic. The House measure would allow Medicare beneficiaries to continue receiving “audio-only” remote care — that is, by phone. The Senate bill would direct the federal government to come ...
Blog
California’s Door-Knock Vaccination Squad: Maybe Just A Bit Creepy?
With California just weeks away from a full re-opening, the state has sent out a small army of people who are “knocking on doors in order to get as many Californians vaccinated as possible,” the Sacramento Bee reported last week. Did no one think this might be a bad idea? ...
Commentary
Medicare Expansion: A Gift to the Relatively Wealthy
President Joe Biden’s ambitious proposals to reduce Medicare’s eligibility age to 60 may not be the gift to older Americans that its supporters believe it to be. That’s the core finding of a new analysis from Avalere, a consultancy. The report concluded that lower-income adults would likely have to pay more for ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes on the Hidden Truth Show: “COVID Proves Government Should not Run Healthcare”
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s president and CEO joined the Hidden Truth Show with Jim Breslo to discuss her latest Forbes op-ed about corporate America’s support for more government-run healthcare.
Commentary
Government Health Insurance: An Offer Businesses Should Refuse
Executives at many large corporations want the government to take on a greater role providing health coverage and controlling costs, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey. That seems to indicate big business is sympathetic to the core of the Democrats’ healthcare agenda, including the idea of a public option ...
To See the Fallacy of H.R. 3 (Lower Drug Costs Now Act) Just Look at the Inflation Data
Railing about sky high drug prices makes good political theater and helps drum up support for the latest attempt to impose drug price controls (H.R. 3 or the Lower Drug Costs Now Act). This accusation also perpetuates misinformation. If implemented, H.R. 3 would endanger patient access to current efficacious medicines ...
The White House Continues Its Campaign To Deny People Insurance Choices
The Biden administration is continuing its onslaught against health plans that don’t have their seal of approval. At a congressional hearing last month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra agreed with Rep. Kathy Castor’s, D-Fla., characterization of short-term health plans as “junk” insurance—and promised to scrutinize a Trump-era rule ...
Democrats Ask All the Wrong Questions About the Public Option
The public option is back on the congressional docket. Last week, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who helms the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued an open request for information on how to implement a ...
Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session
The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies. Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
Newsom’s “Comeback” Plan for Small Businesses
Back in February, Tim Anaya and I interviewed for PRI’s Next Round podcast Cynthia Ariosta and Carl Dene, small business owners in Napa Valley, to get their perspective on Gov. Newsom’s COVID restrictions on small businesses. This heart-wrenching interview was one of our most listened to podcasts this year. In ...
Telemedicine is here to stay
This week, lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills that could preserve access to telehealth for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries beyond the pandemic. The House measure would allow Medicare beneficiaries to continue receiving “audio-only” remote care — that is, by phone. The Senate bill would direct the federal government to come ...
California’s Door-Knock Vaccination Squad: Maybe Just A Bit Creepy?
With California just weeks away from a full re-opening, the state has sent out a small army of people who are “knocking on doors in order to get as many Californians vaccinated as possible,” the Sacramento Bee reported last week. Did no one think this might be a bad idea? ...
Medicare Expansion: A Gift to the Relatively Wealthy
President Joe Biden’s ambitious proposals to reduce Medicare’s eligibility age to 60 may not be the gift to older Americans that its supporters believe it to be. That’s the core finding of a new analysis from Avalere, a consultancy. The report concluded that lower-income adults would likely have to pay more for ...
Sally Pipes on the Hidden Truth Show: “COVID Proves Government Should not Run Healthcare”
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s president and CEO joined the Hidden Truth Show with Jim Breslo to discuss her latest Forbes op-ed about corporate America’s support for more government-run healthcare.
Government Health Insurance: An Offer Businesses Should Refuse
Executives at many large corporations want the government to take on a greater role providing health coverage and controlling costs, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey. That seems to indicate big business is sympathetic to the core of the Democrats’ healthcare agenda, including the idea of a public option ...
