Health Care
Coronavirus
Bartlett Cleland – Everything You Need to Know About California’s New Privacy Law
PRI Senior Fellow in Tech and Innovation Bartlett Cleland joins us to discuss the California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect on July 1. He discusses the serious flaws with the new law and how it will impact consumers and business owners, looks ahead to November when voters would have ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 27, 2020
Business & Economics
It’s time to bring our economy back to life. Paying workers to stay home won’t help
The federal government’s emergency unemployment benefits are set to expire this week. Set at $600 a week by the CARES Act — the economic rescue package Congress passed back in March — the emergency benefits were intended to supplement state unemployment insurance and offset the economic carnage caused by the coronavirus lockdowns. That extra ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 25, 2020
Commentary
Trump’s drug pricing executive orders harmful to patients — will hinder development of new drugs
President Trump issued four executive orders Friday that he said will lower drug prices — but in reality, three of the orders will cause far more harm than good and represent electioneering at its worst. The three harmful executive orders allow the importation of drugs from Canada, reduce the price ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 24, 2020
Commentary
President Trump’s Big Government Instincts Threaten Drug Innovation And Availability
President Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”. It is time for President Trump to learn this wisdom. Along with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Sanders, and Representative Ocasio-Cortez, President Trump seems to believe that giving the ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 24, 2020
Drug Pricing
Sally Pipes and Lars Larson Examine Trump Ex. Orders on Drug Pricing
Sally C. Pipes joins the Lars Larson Show to question the Trump administration’s latest action on drug pricing. President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday, July 24 that puts limits on drug pricing in the United States. Pipes explains that 90 percent of drugs are generic and ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 24, 2020
Commentary
Why Trump administration should say goodbye to ‘Buy America’
It’s not often that Joe Biden agrees with President Trump. But the former vice president found common ground with his presumptive opponent this month when he announced he would outline a plan to bring medical manufacturing back to the United States, something the president has long endorsed. This isn’t the ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 23, 2020
Commentary
COVID-19’s Long-Term Effects Raise the Stakes of the Game.
Despite the surge of new cases of COVID-19, increases in the percentage of positive tests, and scores of ICUs at or near capacity, some commentators are still saying things like, “The so-called surge in cases is more fake news pushed by media cheerleaders eager to destroy the U.S. economy and culture ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 23, 2020
Coronavirus
Lars Larson and Dr. Henry Miller Talk Ongoing Symptoms Due to COVID-19
Dr. Henry Miller talks about new symptoms showing up in those infected with COVID-19, some of which are different than the initial ones noticed at the start of the pandemic. Miller explains the findings come from different studies, including an Italian study that showed many continuing symptoms after the coronavirus ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
July 22, 2020
Commentary
Executive Order On Drug Price Controls Would Backfire
Rumor has it that President Trump will soon issue a sweeping executive order to lower prescription drug prices by fiat. Nothing is set in stone. But the order would reportedly index the government’s reimbursements for medicines to the prices that Britain, France, Canada, and other developed nations pay. Since all those nations ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 22, 2020
Blog
California is a Part-Time Legislature Due to Coronavirus
Advocates have fought to make California a part-time legislature for a while now. Strangely, the coronavirus pandemic has given these advocates what they want in the interest of public health. The California State Legislature has largely been sidelined since shelter-in-place orders and closures began in March 2020. The state legislature ...
Evan Harris
July 22, 2020
Bartlett Cleland – Everything You Need to Know About California’s New Privacy Law
PRI Senior Fellow in Tech and Innovation Bartlett Cleland joins us to discuss the California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect on July 1. He discusses the serious flaws with the new law and how it will impact consumers and business owners, looks ahead to November when voters would have ...
It’s time to bring our economy back to life. Paying workers to stay home won’t help
The federal government’s emergency unemployment benefits are set to expire this week. Set at $600 a week by the CARES Act — the economic rescue package Congress passed back in March — the emergency benefits were intended to supplement state unemployment insurance and offset the economic carnage caused by the coronavirus lockdowns. That extra ...
Trump’s drug pricing executive orders harmful to patients — will hinder development of new drugs
President Trump issued four executive orders Friday that he said will lower drug prices — but in reality, three of the orders will cause far more harm than good and represent electioneering at its worst. The three harmful executive orders allow the importation of drugs from Canada, reduce the price ...
President Trump’s Big Government Instincts Threaten Drug Innovation And Availability
President Reagan famously said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”. It is time for President Trump to learn this wisdom. Along with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Sanders, and Representative Ocasio-Cortez, President Trump seems to believe that giving the ...
Sally Pipes and Lars Larson Examine Trump Ex. Orders on Drug Pricing
Sally C. Pipes joins the Lars Larson Show to question the Trump administration’s latest action on drug pricing. President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday, July 24 that puts limits on drug pricing in the United States. Pipes explains that 90 percent of drugs are generic and ...
Why Trump administration should say goodbye to ‘Buy America’
It’s not often that Joe Biden agrees with President Trump. But the former vice president found common ground with his presumptive opponent this month when he announced he would outline a plan to bring medical manufacturing back to the United States, something the president has long endorsed. This isn’t the ...
COVID-19’s Long-Term Effects Raise the Stakes of the Game.
Despite the surge of new cases of COVID-19, increases in the percentage of positive tests, and scores of ICUs at or near capacity, some commentators are still saying things like, “The so-called surge in cases is more fake news pushed by media cheerleaders eager to destroy the U.S. economy and culture ...
Lars Larson and Dr. Henry Miller Talk Ongoing Symptoms Due to COVID-19
Dr. Henry Miller talks about new symptoms showing up in those infected with COVID-19, some of which are different than the initial ones noticed at the start of the pandemic. Miller explains the findings come from different studies, including an Italian study that showed many continuing symptoms after the coronavirus ...
Executive Order On Drug Price Controls Would Backfire
Rumor has it that President Trump will soon issue a sweeping executive order to lower prescription drug prices by fiat. Nothing is set in stone. But the order would reportedly index the government’s reimbursements for medicines to the prices that Britain, France, Canada, and other developed nations pay. Since all those nations ...
California is a Part-Time Legislature Due to Coronavirus
Advocates have fought to make California a part-time legislature for a while now. Strangely, the coronavirus pandemic has given these advocates what they want in the interest of public health. The California State Legislature has largely been sidelined since shelter-in-place orders and closures began in March 2020. The state legislature ...