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Price Controls Impose High Costs On Patients
Twenty-five years ago, the leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 25 and 44 was complications from HIV. At the time, 50,000 Americans were dying from AIDS-related causes a year, with the African American community particularly hard hit – 49 percent of the people dying from AIDS-related deaths ...
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Bernie Sanders’ Resurgence Is Bad For America’s Health
Just three months after suffering what many thought was a campaign-ending heart attack, Senator Bernie Sanders is on a roll. According to the latest polls, he leads nominal front-runner Joe Biden in California and is within a percentage point in both Iowa and New Hampshire. On top of all that, his campaign is bringing in record ...
Commentary
Under Elizabeth Warren, there’s no choice but government-run healthcare
The top story out of this week’s Democratic presidential debate was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s accusation that Sen. Bernie Sanders called her “a liar on national TV.” Both progressive firebrands have a casual relationship with the truth, especially when it comes to their plans for healthcare. But Warren’s pitch has grown ...
Health Care
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less? To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
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Single Payer Health Care Support Stagnate in Single-Payer Poll Watch 2020 Update
Last month, Pacific Research Institute launched the “Single-Payer Poll Watch” to keep an eye on the latest public opinion around single-payer healthcare. Much like RealClearPolitics, the poll watch compiles questions from national polls on single-payer health care and calculates the average of the four most recent polls by date. In ...
Commentary
Bernie’s ‘Medicare-for-all’ misinformation — learn these facts before this week’s debate
Sen. Bernie Sanders has launched a new misinformation campaign on “Medicare-for-all” in advance of this week’s Democratic presidential debate. Last week, advisers to his campaign released a study trumpeting the supposed savings “Medicare-for-all” would bring. Days prior, Sanders refused to say how much his “Medicare-for-all” plan would cost. “I don’t give a number and I’ll ...
Health Care
New Book from Health Care Expert Sally Pipes Exposes the Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All
Pacific Research Institute President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes makes the case against single-payer health care and offers a vision for market-based health care reforms in her new book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All, now available ...
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Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
Commentary
The Epic Folly Of Trump’s Drug Importation Crusade
Late last month, the Trump administration released a plan that would green-light the importation of certain drugs from Canada and potentially other foreign countries. The administration’s proposal comes on the heels of legislative pushes by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and Democratic Governor Jared Polis of Colorado to import drugs from Canada. Other states are ...
Commentary
Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is malarkey
The New Hampshire primary is less than six weeks away. According to the latest polls, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pitch doesn’t appear to be resonating with Granite State voters. He hasn’t topped a poll there since early November. Biden hopes his call for a public option will help vault ...
Price Controls Impose High Costs On Patients
Twenty-five years ago, the leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 25 and 44 was complications from HIV. At the time, 50,000 Americans were dying from AIDS-related causes a year, with the African American community particularly hard hit – 49 percent of the people dying from AIDS-related deaths ...
Bernie Sanders’ Resurgence Is Bad For America’s Health
Just three months after suffering what many thought was a campaign-ending heart attack, Senator Bernie Sanders is on a roll. According to the latest polls, he leads nominal front-runner Joe Biden in California and is within a percentage point in both Iowa and New Hampshire. On top of all that, his campaign is bringing in record ...
Under Elizabeth Warren, there’s no choice but government-run healthcare
The top story out of this week’s Democratic presidential debate was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s accusation that Sen. Bernie Sanders called her “a liar on national TV.” Both progressive firebrands have a casual relationship with the truth, especially when it comes to their plans for healthcare. But Warren’s pitch has grown ...
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
Health care continues to be one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States. Close to a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public sentiment continues to evolve: more government control or less? To inform the public on the latest sentiment, PRI has compiled ...
Single Payer Health Care Support Stagnate in Single-Payer Poll Watch 2020 Update
Last month, Pacific Research Institute launched the “Single-Payer Poll Watch” to keep an eye on the latest public opinion around single-payer healthcare. Much like RealClearPolitics, the poll watch compiles questions from national polls on single-payer health care and calculates the average of the four most recent polls by date. In ...
Bernie’s ‘Medicare-for-all’ misinformation — learn these facts before this week’s debate
Sen. Bernie Sanders has launched a new misinformation campaign on “Medicare-for-all” in advance of this week’s Democratic presidential debate. Last week, advisers to his campaign released a study trumpeting the supposed savings “Medicare-for-all” would bring. Days prior, Sanders refused to say how much his “Medicare-for-all” plan would cost. “I don’t give a number and I’ll ...
New Book from Health Care Expert Sally Pipes Exposes the Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All
Pacific Research Institute President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes makes the case against single-payer health care and offers a vision for market-based health care reforms in her new book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All, now available ...
Sally Pipes talks about her new book, False Premise, False Promise
In this podcast, PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes discusses her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Sally makes the case against Medicare for All using evidence from government-run systems in Canada and the U.K and explains how single-payer health care makes a ...
The Epic Folly Of Trump’s Drug Importation Crusade
Late last month, the Trump administration released a plan that would green-light the importation of certain drugs from Canada and potentially other foreign countries. The administration’s proposal comes on the heels of legislative pushes by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and Democratic Governor Jared Polis of Colorado to import drugs from Canada. Other states are ...
Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is malarkey
The New Hampshire primary is less than six weeks away. According to the latest polls, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pitch doesn’t appear to be resonating with Granite State voters. He hasn’t topped a poll there since early November. Biden hopes his call for a public option will help vault ...
