Medicare
Commentary
Pelosi’s Drug Price Controls Are Dangerous—But So Are Trump’s
The White House Council of Economic Advisors just issued a damning indictment of a House bill (H.R. 3) designed to lower drug prices. According to White House economists, the measure endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats could prevent the development of 100 new drugs over the next ten years. ...
Business & Economics
Regulation stands in the way of entrepreneurship for low-income families
https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Wayne-Winegarden-News.mp3 In October 2019, the Pacific Research Institute released findings of a new report, titled Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity #2 Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream. The report, authored by Wayne Winegarden, contends that “overly complex government regulations are a common cause behind the barriers to low-income entrepreneurship.” ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare for All on the Jim Bohannon Show
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy joins the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show to explain the litany of problems with single payer health care and provide examples from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Commentary
Warren’s Medicare for All isn’t affordable for anyone
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has released her new road map for Medicare for All. She’s proposing a series of executive actions and bills that would transition the country to a government-run health system during her first term in the White House. Sen. Warren claims her brand of Medicare for All, once fully in place, would require $20.5 ...
Commentary
Doctors need a second opinion on ‘Medicare-for-all’
The American College of Physicians, the nation’s second-largest doctors group, has endorsed “Medicare-for-all.” The group, whose membership consists of 159,000 internists, claims the plan would bring a host of necessary changes to the American healthcare system. The American College of Physicians joins the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association’s ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Blog
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 ...
Pelosi’s Drug Price Controls Are Dangerous—But So Are Trump’s
The White House Council of Economic Advisors just issued a damning indictment of a House bill (H.R. 3) designed to lower drug prices. According to White House economists, the measure endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats could prevent the development of 100 new drugs over the next ten years. ...
Regulation stands in the way of entrepreneurship for low-income families
https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Wayne-Winegarden-News.mp3 In October 2019, the Pacific Research Institute released findings of a new report, titled Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity #2 Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream. The report, authored by Wayne Winegarden, contends that “overly complex government regulations are a common cause behind the barriers to low-income entrepreneurship.” ...
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare for All on the Jim Bohannon Show
Sally Pipes, PRI’s President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy joins the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show to explain the litany of problems with single payer health care and provide examples from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.
Warren’s Medicare for All isn’t affordable for anyone
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has released her new road map for Medicare for All. She’s proposing a series of executive actions and bills that would transition the country to a government-run health system during her first term in the White House. Sen. Warren claims her brand of Medicare for All, once fully in place, would require $20.5 ...
Doctors need a second opinion on ‘Medicare-for-all’
The American College of Physicians, the nation’s second-largest doctors group, has endorsed “Medicare-for-all.” The group, whose membership consists of 159,000 internists, claims the plan would bring a host of necessary changes to the American healthcare system. The American College of Physicians joins the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association’s ...
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 ...
