Health Care
Health Care
Medicare for All and the COVID-19 Crisis
As single-payer advocates such as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are seizing on the COVID-19 pandemic to push even more aggressively for a complete takeover of our health care system by the federal government, listen to a special presentation of our recent webinar featuring PRI ...
Climate Change
Biden’s Mask Of Moderation Has Finally Slipped
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pitches himself to American voters as a reasonable and pragmatic centrist. But he’s stocked his campaign team with some of the Democratic party’s most prominent—and extreme—left-wingers. Last month, Biden announced the creation of several policy task forces designed to bring the party together. Those task ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – June 19
Tim Anaya – How Medicines in the U.S. are Sold In the latest video in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, the Professor and Pete reach the most difficult part of their journey: understanding how medicines are sold. It’s a complex system that hurts patients and at times exposes ...
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Inconsistent Testing, Protests on the Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson discuss the inconsistent testing procedures in New York and other parts of the country for coronavirus. Miller also talks about the spread of coronavirus due to protests. Miller’s segment begins at the 47:00 minute mark. Lars Larson National Podcast · Lars Larson National Podcast ...
Blog
Blocking Evictions Sets Off A Harmful Chain Of Events
In the early days of the pandemic lockdowns, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a temporary moratorium on evictions of small and mid-size businesses “due to a loss of income related to lost revenue or other economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” She also prohibited evictions from “all residential ...
Climate Change
Pandemics, Pollution, and Poppycock
By Henry I. Miller, M.S, M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat With the world in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the short-term focus is now on how to avoid surges of infections and get the economy functioning so people can go back to work. Hindsight is, of course, ...
Business & Economics
Extending generous unemployment benefits will drag out the economic crisis
According to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, the next coronavirus relief package could spell disaster for our economy. In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, the nonpartisan CBO warned that extending unemployment benefits would discourage the jobless from rejoining the workforce. As the country emerges from lockdown and ...
Blog
Would ACA 25 Greenlight a Legislative Power Grab During State of Emergency?
Kiefer Sutherland taught us in “Designated Survivor” the importance of having strong processes in place to ensure continuity of government during an extreme crisis. Spurred on by the coronavirus, lawmakers are trying to put a legislative emergency contingency plan in the State Constitution. If approved by voters, Assembly Constitutional Amendment ...
Commentary
Coronavirus Stimulus Would Barely Cover Medicare for All
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has prompted the biggest spending spree in American history. The House of Representatives just passed an additional relief package worth $3 trillion. That’s on top of $2.2 trillion in spending that Congress and the president green-lit in March — including $250 billion ...
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Breaks Down Coronavirus Studies with the John Batchelor Show
Dr. Henry Miller joins the John Batchelor Show to discuss the release of two studies measuring the impact of infections and deaths due to the coronavirus. A Berkeley study said that the shutdowns could have prevented 120 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States, and about 600 million in China. ...
Medicare for All and the COVID-19 Crisis
As single-payer advocates such as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are seizing on the COVID-19 pandemic to push even more aggressively for a complete takeover of our health care system by the federal government, listen to a special presentation of our recent webinar featuring PRI ...
Biden’s Mask Of Moderation Has Finally Slipped
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pitches himself to American voters as a reasonable and pragmatic centrist. But he’s stocked his campaign team with some of the Democratic party’s most prominent—and extreme—left-wingers. Last month, Biden announced the creation of several policy task forces designed to bring the party together. Those task ...
What We’re Watching – June 19
Tim Anaya – How Medicines in the U.S. are Sold In the latest video in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” video, the Professor and Pete reach the most difficult part of their journey: understanding how medicines are sold. It’s a complex system that hurts patients and at times exposes ...
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Inconsistent Testing, Protests on the Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson discuss the inconsistent testing procedures in New York and other parts of the country for coronavirus. Miller also talks about the spread of coronavirus due to protests. Miller’s segment begins at the 47:00 minute mark. Lars Larson National Podcast · Lars Larson National Podcast ...
Blocking Evictions Sets Off A Harmful Chain Of Events
In the early days of the pandemic lockdowns, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a temporary moratorium on evictions of small and mid-size businesses “due to a loss of income related to lost revenue or other economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” She also prohibited evictions from “all residential ...
Pandemics, Pollution, and Poppycock
By Henry I. Miller, M.S, M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat With the world in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the short-term focus is now on how to avoid surges of infections and get the economy functioning so people can go back to work. Hindsight is, of course, ...
Extending generous unemployment benefits will drag out the economic crisis
According to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, the next coronavirus relief package could spell disaster for our economy. In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, the nonpartisan CBO warned that extending unemployment benefits would discourage the jobless from rejoining the workforce. As the country emerges from lockdown and ...
Would ACA 25 Greenlight a Legislative Power Grab During State of Emergency?
Kiefer Sutherland taught us in “Designated Survivor” the importance of having strong processes in place to ensure continuity of government during an extreme crisis. Spurred on by the coronavirus, lawmakers are trying to put a legislative emergency contingency plan in the State Constitution. If approved by voters, Assembly Constitutional Amendment ...
Coronavirus Stimulus Would Barely Cover Medicare for All
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has prompted the biggest spending spree in American history. The House of Representatives just passed an additional relief package worth $3 trillion. That’s on top of $2.2 trillion in spending that Congress and the president green-lit in March — including $250 billion ...
Dr. Henry Miller Breaks Down Coronavirus Studies with the John Batchelor Show
Dr. Henry Miller joins the John Batchelor Show to discuss the release of two studies measuring the impact of infections and deaths due to the coronavirus. A Berkeley study said that the shutdowns could have prevented 120 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States, and about 600 million in China. ...
