Health Care
Commentary
Cleveland Is Trump’s Best Chance To Reshape The Healthcare Conversation
This week, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will square off in Cleveland for the first of three debates. The two candidates will have no shortage of disagreements to air, but one subject in particular is sure to receive significant attention—health care. From the pandemic response to the ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Commentary
Supreme Court and ObamaCare – here’s what to expect if law is not upheld
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suddenly made the demise of ObamaCare a possibility. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case challenging the law’s constitutionality, California v. Texas, on Nov. 10, just a week after the election. Justice Ginsburg was a sure vote to uphold ObamaCare. Her replacement may not be. What would a ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Commentary
How Trump can trounce Biden on healthcare
In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, healthcare is sure to be one of the chief topics of conversation, especially now that a newly constituted Supreme Court could strike down Obamacare, effective perhaps as early as next year. At the debate, Joe Biden will almost certainly go after President Trump ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 28, 2020
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Explains COVID-19 Air Transmission
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson review the many confusing statements that have come out of the U.S. Center for Disease Control, or CDC, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Miller and Larson talk about the recent development that the CDC released around COVID-19 being transmitted in the air, ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 23, 2020
Coronavirus
The Morning Rush Interviews Sally C. Pipes on COVID-19 Reopenings
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, talks about how shutdowns and shelter in place orders from COVID-19 and the coronavirus are impacting elective procedures and screenings for cancer. Pipes points out that the tremendous delays in elective health care could result in an increase in cancer deaths. Pipes also ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 22, 2020
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Explains November COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges
PRI Senor Fellow Dr. Henry Miller joins the John Batchelor Show for a two-part discussion on what can go wrong with a November vaccine for the coronavirus. Miller talks about how safe a vaccine would be this fall and discrepancies between comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other federal experts, ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 21, 2020
Blog
What We’re Watching – September 18
Tim Anaya – Making the Entire Health Care System More Affordable In the final episode in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, the Professor and Pete visit the City of Free Enterprise and learn that reforms to make the entire health care system more affordable are critical to making ...
Pacific Research Institute
September 18, 2020
Commentary
Fans of Medicare for All Have an Ally in Biden
So far in his campaign for president, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has assiduously avoided endorsing Medicare for All — much to the chagrin of a growing number of Democrats. A recent Hill-HarrisX poll finds that 87 percent of Democrats favor Medicare for All. And numerous delegates to the convention voted ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 17, 2020
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Shares Vaccine Recommendations, Flu Concerns on Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson talk about who could be eligible for an early vaccine and what data could tell us about how effective the vaccine will be on different age groups. Miller also talks about having insufficient data on vaccine clinical testing for seniors or those more at ...
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 16, 2020
Commentary
Price Controls Are Disastrous For Rents And Will Be For Drugs
President Trump and senior advisor Jared Kushner claim that the most favored nation executive order signed by the President over the weekend is necessary for drug pricing because “the U.S. shouldn’t pay more than other European countries for the same treatments.” This policy will make things worse, not better. If the president ...
Wayne Winegarden
September 15, 2020
Cleveland Is Trump’s Best Chance To Reshape The Healthcare Conversation
This week, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will square off in Cleveland for the first of three debates. The two candidates will have no shortage of disagreements to air, but one subject in particular is sure to receive significant attention—health care. From the pandemic response to the ...
Supreme Court and ObamaCare – here’s what to expect if law is not upheld
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suddenly made the demise of ObamaCare a possibility. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case challenging the law’s constitutionality, California v. Texas, on Nov. 10, just a week after the election. Justice Ginsburg was a sure vote to uphold ObamaCare. Her replacement may not be. What would a ...
How Trump can trounce Biden on healthcare
In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, healthcare is sure to be one of the chief topics of conversation, especially now that a newly constituted Supreme Court could strike down Obamacare, effective perhaps as early as next year. At the debate, Joe Biden will almost certainly go after President Trump ...
Dr. Henry Miller Explains COVID-19 Air Transmission
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson review the many confusing statements that have come out of the U.S. Center for Disease Control, or CDC, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Miller and Larson talk about the recent development that the CDC released around COVID-19 being transmitted in the air, ...
The Morning Rush Interviews Sally C. Pipes on COVID-19 Reopenings
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, talks about how shutdowns and shelter in place orders from COVID-19 and the coronavirus are impacting elective procedures and screenings for cancer. Pipes points out that the tremendous delays in elective health care could result in an increase in cancer deaths. Pipes also ...
Dr. Henry Miller Explains November COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges
PRI Senor Fellow Dr. Henry Miller joins the John Batchelor Show for a two-part discussion on what can go wrong with a November vaccine for the coronavirus. Miller talks about how safe a vaccine would be this fall and discrepancies between comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other federal experts, ...
What We’re Watching – September 18
Tim Anaya – Making the Entire Health Care System More Affordable In the final episode in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, the Professor and Pete visit the City of Free Enterprise and learn that reforms to make the entire health care system more affordable are critical to making ...
Fans of Medicare for All Have an Ally in Biden
So far in his campaign for president, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has assiduously avoided endorsing Medicare for All — much to the chagrin of a growing number of Democrats. A recent Hill-HarrisX poll finds that 87 percent of Democrats favor Medicare for All. And numerous delegates to the convention voted ...
Dr. Henry Miller Shares Vaccine Recommendations, Flu Concerns on Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson talk about who could be eligible for an early vaccine and what data could tell us about how effective the vaccine will be on different age groups. Miller also talks about having insufficient data on vaccine clinical testing for seniors or those more at ...
Price Controls Are Disastrous For Rents And Will Be For Drugs
President Trump and senior advisor Jared Kushner claim that the most favored nation executive order signed by the President over the weekend is necessary for drug pricing because “the U.S. shouldn’t pay more than other European countries for the same treatments.” This policy will make things worse, not better. If the president ...