Medicare
Commentary
More Competition Will Improve Drug Affordability
Making medicines more affordable for patients promises to be a top policy priority for Congress when it returns from its August recess. Achieving this goal does not require new, elaborate, government programs or regulations. It requires reforms that will empower biosimilars to more effectively compete against originator biologics. To see ...
Commentary
Technology Can Make Rural America Healthier
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a plan to improve health care in rural America. In a statement posted on his campaign website, he wrote, “Rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people in cities.” He is right, but his plan misses the mark. Buttigieg wants to ...
Blog
Despite Some Problems, Americans Should Be Grateful for Current Health Care System
Recently, I had a health scare that sent me to the emergency room for a few hours. The care that I received at UC Davis Medical Center was excellent. I drove myself to the emergency room at 6:30 in the morning. Upon registering, I saw a doctor within twenty minutes ...
Commentary
Trump’s drug price controls could cost lives
The Trump administration is preparing a proposal that will likely peg what Medicare pays for prescription drugs to prices in other nations. Name brand drugs generally cost less abroad because foreign governments forcibly control their prices. So this international price index would effectively import those foreign price controls. That may sound like a ...
Commentary
A President Harris Would Mean Good-Bye To Private Insurance
Since announcing her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Kamala Harris hasn’t been able to make up her mind about whether she wants to eliminate private health insurance. At a CNN town hall in January, she voiced support for nixing private insurance, stating, “Let’s eliminate all of that. ...
Health Care
The Bob Zadek Show interviews Sally C. Pipes on KTRB 860 AM on single-payer healthcare plans
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, discussed single-payer healthcare and Medicare For All plans offered by the 2020 Democratic candidates on the Bob Zadek Show on KTRB The Answer. Click below to listen to the segment. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53615d24e4b0a4907f99ed24/t/5d5a577948099500015cf9d5/1566201850081/Zadek-08-18-19_FULLSHOW.mp3/original/Zadek-08-18-19_FULLSHOW.mp3
Commentary
‘Medicare-for-all’ would be hazardous to the health of seniors – Rationed care could be deadly
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., had a run-in with the Greatest Generation on Aug. 12. Roberta Jewell, a resident at the Bickford Senior Living Center in Muscatine, Iowa, told the Democratic presidential hopeful to “leave our health care alone.” Like many Americans, Jewell is reluctant to embrace the “Medicare-for-all” plans Harris ...
Drug Pricing
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
Health Care
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ op-ed on Medicare For All
President Donald J. Trump took to Facebook on Monday to share Sally Pipes’ latest Fox News column on how union members will be impacted by the push by Democratic candidates for a single-payer health care system. Click here to read the column that the President is talking about.
Health Care
WIBW Topeka Interviews Sally C. Pipes on healthcare
A healthcare policy expert believes that Republicans need a legitimate alternative to Medicare for All if they’re going to be successful with the issue going forward. “President Trump has said that he is going to release another fantastic health care plan sometime this month in August, said Sally C. Pipes, ...
More Competition Will Improve Drug Affordability
Making medicines more affordable for patients promises to be a top policy priority for Congress when it returns from its August recess. Achieving this goal does not require new, elaborate, government programs or regulations. It requires reforms that will empower biosimilars to more effectively compete against originator biologics. To see ...
Technology Can Make Rural America Healthier
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a plan to improve health care in rural America. In a statement posted on his campaign website, he wrote, “Rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people in cities.” He is right, but his plan misses the mark. Buttigieg wants to ...
Despite Some Problems, Americans Should Be Grateful for Current Health Care System
Recently, I had a health scare that sent me to the emergency room for a few hours. The care that I received at UC Davis Medical Center was excellent. I drove myself to the emergency room at 6:30 in the morning. Upon registering, I saw a doctor within twenty minutes ...
Trump’s drug price controls could cost lives
The Trump administration is preparing a proposal that will likely peg what Medicare pays for prescription drugs to prices in other nations. Name brand drugs generally cost less abroad because foreign governments forcibly control their prices. So this international price index would effectively import those foreign price controls. That may sound like a ...
A President Harris Would Mean Good-Bye To Private Insurance
Since announcing her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Kamala Harris hasn’t been able to make up her mind about whether she wants to eliminate private health insurance. At a CNN town hall in January, she voiced support for nixing private insurance, stating, “Let’s eliminate all of that. ...
The Bob Zadek Show interviews Sally C. Pipes on KTRB 860 AM on single-payer healthcare plans
Sally C. Pipes, PRI’s President and CEO, discussed single-payer healthcare and Medicare For All plans offered by the 2020 Democratic candidates on the Bob Zadek Show on KTRB The Answer. Click below to listen to the segment. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53615d24e4b0a4907f99ed24/t/5d5a577948099500015cf9d5/1566201850081/Zadek-08-18-19_FULLSHOW.mp3/original/Zadek-08-18-19_FULLSHOW.mp3
‘Medicare-for-all’ would be hazardous to the health of seniors – Rationed care could be deadly
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., had a run-in with the Greatest Generation on Aug. 12. Roberta Jewell, a resident at the Bickford Senior Living Center in Muscatine, Iowa, told the Democratic presidential hopeful to “leave our health care alone.” Like many Americans, Jewell is reluctant to embrace the “Medicare-for-all” plans Harris ...
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
President Trump Shares Sally Pipes’ op-ed on Medicare For All
President Donald J. Trump took to Facebook on Monday to share Sally Pipes’ latest Fox News column on how union members will be impacted by the push by Democratic candidates for a single-payer health care system. Click here to read the column that the President is talking about.
WIBW Topeka Interviews Sally C. Pipes on healthcare
A healthcare policy expert believes that Republicans need a legitimate alternative to Medicare for All if they’re going to be successful with the issue going forward. “President Trump has said that he is going to release another fantastic health care plan sometime this month in August, said Sally C. Pipes, ...
