New Issue Brief: Biopharma Drug Makers Are Not the Most Profitable Players in Health Care

A new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that innovative drug manufacturers earn some of the lowest risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. health care system, despite making the ...

Watch PRI’s interview with Rick Caruso – one year after the wildfires

In this special Free Cities Center interview, Rick Caruso – founder and executive chairman of Caruso, longtime civic and philanthropic leader in Los Angeles and former mayor candidate – discusses LA’s rebuilding efforts one year after the wildfires. He shares ...

No Accountability as Insurers Profit From Public Programs

Executives from the nation’s largest health insurers are set to testify before Congress soon in a hearing on healthcare affordability. It’s about time. From Medicare Advantage to Obamacare exchanges to prescription drug benefits, insurers have been extracting ever-greater amounts of ...

Red tape is strangling rural health care. It’s time to cut it

Rural America is running out of doctors. According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, 43 million Americans now live in rural communities facing a shortage of primary care providers. This shortage isn’t new. It’s been reality for rural ...

Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes

PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here. 

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How can we make drugs more affordable without sacrificing future cures?

How can we make drugs more affordable without sacrificing future cures? To a large extent, the current system works fairly well already to make most ...
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Medicare for All remains a disaster proposition

Medicare for All is poised for a comeback. Earlier this month, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, released polling ...
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Do price controls affect which drugs patients have access to and how soon?

Do price controls affect which drugs patients have access to and how soon? They absolutely do. Just look at the situation in Europe. For years, ...

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