Health Care
Climate Change
Fund coronavirus research, not a climate change musical
I’ve been a science nerd almost all my life. In graduate school, I was the co-discoverer of a bacterial enzyme essential to DNA replication and of a key enzyme in the influenza virus. I have written more than a thousand articles concerned with science and science policy. I’m convinced that America’s prosperity is based on post-WWII ...
Commentary
‘Rescue’ package makes poor pay for rich’s health care
President Joe Biden recently signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. With a stroke of his pen, he claimed to put “working people in this nation first. It’s not hyperbole; it’s a fact.” A closer look at this so-called “rescue” package suggests otherwise. Democrats tucked two provisions into the law ...
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson Discuss Vaccine Passports
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Lars Larson talk about vaccine “passports” and the concern that documentation for vaccines could be expanded for other uses. Larson compares the vaccine passports to the widespread use of social security cards and the pending policy questions from requiring medical documentation. Lars Larson National Podcast ...
Commentary
President Biden’s Weak Vaccination Incentives Hurt Americans
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently expressed a sense of “impending doom” regarding the pandemic. Her fear is that, unless Americans keep abiding by strict Covid-19 protocols like mask-wearing, social distancing, and forgoing travel, a new surge in cases and deaths could be on ...
Featured
Sally Pipes Discusses Push for Public Option on Newsmax TV
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” on Newsmax TV. The interview begins at the 2:02:00 mark. Click here to watch the interview
Drug Pricing
Wayne Winegarden – A Flawed Analysis on Valuing Medicines
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) promotes itself as “the nation’s drug pricing watchdog.” However, as documented in the first of a series of PRI reports, ICER’s cost-effectiveness analyses contain inappropriate methodologies and subjective judgments in determining the value of medicines. In this podcast, PRI senior fellow Wayne ...
Commentary
Hospitals shouldn’t be the gatekeepers of healthcare prices
It’s been more than three months since the federal government ordered hospitals to make like the rest of the economy and start publishing their prices. But nearly two-thirds of the country’s largest hospitals are refusing to do so, according to Health Affairs analysis. That’s absurd. Price transparency is fundamental to the efficient ...
Commentary
What the Public Gets Wrong About the Public Option
Nearly seven in 10 voters, including more than half of Republicans, support a public health insurance option, according to new polling from Morning Consult. Medicare for All is less popular. Some 55 percent of voters embrace the idea. Americans might see the public option as a moderate alternative to the explicit government takeover of ...
Agriculture
What Secretary Yellen and Chairman Powell’s Congressional Testimony Mean
There’s a great parable relayed in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War between Rep. Charles Wilson and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos, played by Tom Hanks and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It’s about a Zen master and a boy. The Zen master repeats the phrase, “we’ll see,” while others in the fable quickly ...
Blog
Public Schools Slowly Move to Reopen While Charter and Private Schools Have Stayed Open
As California public schools drag their feet toward five-day-a-week in-person instruction for all children, I point out in my new Pacific Research Institute report “Road to Reopening” that schools in other parts of the country have remained open and have done so without spikes of COVID-19. A January 2021 CDC ...
Fund coronavirus research, not a climate change musical
I’ve been a science nerd almost all my life. In graduate school, I was the co-discoverer of a bacterial enzyme essential to DNA replication and of a key enzyme in the influenza virus. I have written more than a thousand articles concerned with science and science policy. I’m convinced that America’s prosperity is based on post-WWII ...
‘Rescue’ package makes poor pay for rich’s health care
President Joe Biden recently signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. With a stroke of his pen, he claimed to put “working people in this nation first. It’s not hyperbole; it’s a fact.” A closer look at this so-called “rescue” package suggests otherwise. Democrats tucked two provisions into the law ...
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson Discuss Vaccine Passports
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Lars Larson talk about vaccine “passports” and the concern that documentation for vaccines could be expanded for other uses. Larson compares the vaccine passports to the widespread use of social security cards and the pending policy questions from requiring medical documentation. Lars Larson National Podcast ...
President Biden’s Weak Vaccination Incentives Hurt Americans
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently expressed a sense of “impending doom” regarding the pandemic. Her fear is that, unless Americans keep abiding by strict Covid-19 protocols like mask-wearing, social distancing, and forgoing travel, a new surge in cases and deaths could be on ...
Sally Pipes Discusses Push for Public Option on Newsmax TV
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” on Newsmax TV. The interview begins at the 2:02:00 mark. Click here to watch the interview
Wayne Winegarden – A Flawed Analysis on Valuing Medicines
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) promotes itself as “the nation’s drug pricing watchdog.” However, as documented in the first of a series of PRI reports, ICER’s cost-effectiveness analyses contain inappropriate methodologies and subjective judgments in determining the value of medicines. In this podcast, PRI senior fellow Wayne ...
Hospitals shouldn’t be the gatekeepers of healthcare prices
It’s been more than three months since the federal government ordered hospitals to make like the rest of the economy and start publishing their prices. But nearly two-thirds of the country’s largest hospitals are refusing to do so, according to Health Affairs analysis. That’s absurd. Price transparency is fundamental to the efficient ...
What the Public Gets Wrong About the Public Option
Nearly seven in 10 voters, including more than half of Republicans, support a public health insurance option, according to new polling from Morning Consult. Medicare for All is less popular. Some 55 percent of voters embrace the idea. Americans might see the public option as a moderate alternative to the explicit government takeover of ...
What Secretary Yellen and Chairman Powell’s Congressional Testimony Mean
There’s a great parable relayed in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War between Rep. Charles Wilson and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos, played by Tom Hanks and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It’s about a Zen master and a boy. The Zen master repeats the phrase, “we’ll see,” while others in the fable quickly ...
Public Schools Slowly Move to Reopen While Charter and Private Schools Have Stayed Open
As California public schools drag their feet toward five-day-a-week in-person instruction for all children, I point out in my new Pacific Research Institute report “Road to Reopening” that schools in other parts of the country have remained open and have done so without spikes of COVID-19. A January 2021 CDC ...
