Medicare
Commentary
Biden’s Health Care Proposal Only Cosmetically Different from Bernie’s, his Socialist-Democrat Friend
Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has made protecting ObamaCare a cornerstone of his campaign. He’s cited that position to rebut Republican claims that he’s a socialist in disguise, intent on nationalizing the country’s health insurance system. But voters shouldn’t be fooled. Biden’s plan for “health reform” will lead to a ...
Commentary
Putting A Mirror Up To Obamacare
The confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begin today and Democrats are up in arms. In a recent speech, Joe Biden warned that Barrett’s confirmation would jeopardize the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that seeks to invalidate the law one week after Election Day. A final ruling will ...
Business & Economics
Get government out of the boardroom
At the end of last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill establishing quotas for minorities on the boards of every publicly traded company in the state. That’s on top of a law enacted in 2018 that implemented quotas for women on corporate boards. The governor and his allies ...
Commentary
The bleak reality of Biden’s healthcare proposal
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has made protecting Obamacare a cornerstone of his campaign. He’s cited that position to rebut Republican claims that he’s a socialist in disguise, intent on nationalizing the country’s health insurance system. But voters shouldn’t be fooled. Biden’s plan for health reform will lead to a ...
Commentary
Obama Admits… Biden & Bernie’s Socialist-Democrat Goals Are the Same
In a recent interview, former President Barack Obama admitted something Democrats have been trying to deny or keep secret for months. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’ goals, they’re not that different from a 40,000-foot level,” he said. And he’s right – Biden may have won ...
Commentary
Remember this at VP debate, Kamala Harris is no moderate on health care
On the same day last month both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris suffered the same revealing slip of the tongue. They each referred to the coming “Harris-Biden administration.” Let’s see if Harris makes the same gaffe this week when she debates Vice President Mike Pence in Utah on Wednesday night. ...
Commentary
What Sanders Gets Wrong About Biden’s ‘Centrism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is none too pleased with the direction of Joe Biden’s bid for the White House. According to a report from earlier this month, Sen. Sanders has privately criticized the Democratic presidential nominee for being too moderate and failing to emphasize the progressive policies at the heart ...
Commentary
Import German drug prices to the United States? Nein, danke
President Trump recently issued a blitz of executive orders in an attempt to fulfill his promise to reduce drug prices. One of those orders would put in place a “cure” far worse than the disease. The order in question establishes foreign reference pricing, whereby the federal government ties its reimbursement rates for ...
Blog
Prop 23 – Do we really need a doctor in the house?
Back in the November 2018 election, California voters were forced to pretend to be health care executives when they were asked to decide whether to require dialysis clinics to give refunds to patients (or patients’ insurers) if profits were above 115 percent of the costs of patient care and healthcare improvements. ...
Drug Pricing
NEW BRIEF: Mandating that Drug Rebates Benefit Consumers Will Help Patients with High Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs
A new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute found that reforms mandating drug rebates benefit patients rather than payers would lower overall health care costs and help patients with expensive out-of-pocket drug costs. Click here to download the brief “Ironically, ...
Biden’s Health Care Proposal Only Cosmetically Different from Bernie’s, his Socialist-Democrat Friend
Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has made protecting ObamaCare a cornerstone of his campaign. He’s cited that position to rebut Republican claims that he’s a socialist in disguise, intent on nationalizing the country’s health insurance system. But voters shouldn’t be fooled. Biden’s plan for “health reform” will lead to a ...
Putting A Mirror Up To Obamacare
The confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begin today and Democrats are up in arms. In a recent speech, Joe Biden warned that Barrett’s confirmation would jeopardize the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that seeks to invalidate the law one week after Election Day. A final ruling will ...
Get government out of the boardroom
At the end of last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill establishing quotas for minorities on the boards of every publicly traded company in the state. That’s on top of a law enacted in 2018 that implemented quotas for women on corporate boards. The governor and his allies ...
The bleak reality of Biden’s healthcare proposal
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has made protecting Obamacare a cornerstone of his campaign. He’s cited that position to rebut Republican claims that he’s a socialist in disguise, intent on nationalizing the country’s health insurance system. But voters shouldn’t be fooled. Biden’s plan for health reform will lead to a ...
Obama Admits… Biden & Bernie’s Socialist-Democrat Goals Are the Same
In a recent interview, former President Barack Obama admitted something Democrats have been trying to deny or keep secret for months. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’ goals, they’re not that different from a 40,000-foot level,” he said. And he’s right – Biden may have won ...
Remember this at VP debate, Kamala Harris is no moderate on health care
On the same day last month both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris suffered the same revealing slip of the tongue. They each referred to the coming “Harris-Biden administration.” Let’s see if Harris makes the same gaffe this week when she debates Vice President Mike Pence in Utah on Wednesday night. ...
What Sanders Gets Wrong About Biden’s ‘Centrism’
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is none too pleased with the direction of Joe Biden’s bid for the White House. According to a report from earlier this month, Sen. Sanders has privately criticized the Democratic presidential nominee for being too moderate and failing to emphasize the progressive policies at the heart ...
Import German drug prices to the United States? Nein, danke
President Trump recently issued a blitz of executive orders in an attempt to fulfill his promise to reduce drug prices. One of those orders would put in place a “cure” far worse than the disease. The order in question establishes foreign reference pricing, whereby the federal government ties its reimbursement rates for ...
Prop 23 – Do we really need a doctor in the house?
Back in the November 2018 election, California voters were forced to pretend to be health care executives when they were asked to decide whether to require dialysis clinics to give refunds to patients (or patients’ insurers) if profits were above 115 percent of the costs of patient care and healthcare improvements. ...
NEW BRIEF: Mandating that Drug Rebates Benefit Consumers Will Help Patients with High Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs
A new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute found that reforms mandating drug rebates benefit patients rather than payers would lower overall health care costs and help patients with expensive out-of-pocket drug costs. Click here to download the brief “Ironically, ...
