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Trump’s Healthcare Contradictions Threaten Beneficial Reforms

The Trump Administration is proposing a litany of contradictory healthcare reforms. Some reforms will empower patients, improve incentives, and strengthen the healthcare system. Others empower bureaucrats, worsen incentives, and will restrict patients’ access to needed healthcare treatments. A better outcome will only emerge if the Administration jettisons the ill-advised proposals ...
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Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All

Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
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Medicare For All Would Wipe Out Jobs, Pensions, and 401(k)s

Donald Trump famously made “You’re fired!” a household catchphrase. It may re-enter the American vernacular if the likes of Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Kamala Harris take the White House. That’s because Sanders, Warren, and Harris — along with Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker, who are also competing for ...
Health Care

C-Span Discusses Sally Pipes’ Forbes Article on Britain’s Version of “Medicare for All”

C-Span’s “Washington Journal” recently discussed the pros and cons of single-payer health care or “Medicare for All,” including a discussion of Sally Pipes’ recent Forbes article on the problems with the UK’s National Health Service. Click the link below to watch. The discussion begins at the 11:41 mark.
Commentary

Three Democratic deceptions on health care during the debates

Health care dominated the two Democratic presidential debates last week. Among the most dramatic moments was when moderator Lester Holt asked the candidates to raise their hands if they supported outlawing private insurance and forcing everyone onto a new government-run, “Medicare-for-all” plan. During each debate, only two candidates — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill ...
Health Care

Read Heartland News Story on Sally Pipes Creation of Benjamin Rush Institute

Organization Spreads Pro-Freedom Ideas in Medical Schools By Leo Pusateri In a time when 51 percent of millennials say they have a positive view of socialism, there is an organization spreading the word of free markets and capitalism in one of the sectors most vulnerable to government command and control: ...
Blog

Despite High Costs, Americans Support Potential of Innovative Gene Therapies to Cure Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

SAN FRANCISCO – A new poll from the California-based nonpartisan think tank, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), shows that Americans overwhelmingly support innovative gene therapies, which change the focus of medicine from treating illnesses to curing illnesses. Click here to read the top-line results of PRI’s poll on gene therapies ...
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Celebrating 100 Episodes of “Next Round with PRI”

This week marks a milestone for PRI’s weekly “Next Round” podcast as we celebrate our 100th episode. When we first started the podcast in July 2017, our podcast had a different name, “Another Round with PRI” (I won’t go into the story of why we changed our name).  Sally Pipes’ ...
Commentary

‘Medicare for All’ Is A Trap for Businesses and Employees

Some business leaders are hopping aboard the Medicare for All bandwagon. The Business Alliance for a Healthy California, for example, now has 300 businesses calling for universal healthcare. But any businessman considering getting behind Medicare for All should know the sales pitch is flawed. The architects of Medicare for All ...
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Democrats don’t understand ‘Medicare-for-all’

Next week, 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls will gather in Miami for their first debate. One issue is sure to dominate the discussion – “Medicare-for-all.” The promise of free, government-run health care has become quite popular among Democrats since Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made it a major plank of his 2016 ...
Commentary

Trump’s Healthcare Contradictions Threaten Beneficial Reforms

The Trump Administration is proposing a litany of contradictory healthcare reforms. Some reforms will empower patients, improve incentives, and strengthen the healthcare system. Others empower bureaucrats, worsen incentives, and will restrict patients’ access to needed healthcare treatments. A better outcome will only emerge if the Administration jettisons the ill-advised proposals ...
Commentary

Don’t Buy The Democrats’ ‘Moderate’ Alternatives To Medicare For All

Democrats appear to be getting skittish about Medicare for All. During the first two Democratic presidential debates at the end of last month, moderator Lester Holt of NBC News asked all 20 candidates to raise their hands if they supported abolishing private health insurance and enrolling everyone in a government-run ...
Commentary

Medicare For All Would Wipe Out Jobs, Pensions, and 401(k)s

Donald Trump famously made “You’re fired!” a household catchphrase. It may re-enter the American vernacular if the likes of Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Kamala Harris take the White House. That’s because Sanders, Warren, and Harris — along with Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker, who are also competing for ...
Health Care

C-Span Discusses Sally Pipes’ Forbes Article on Britain’s Version of “Medicare for All”

C-Span’s “Washington Journal” recently discussed the pros and cons of single-payer health care or “Medicare for All,” including a discussion of Sally Pipes’ recent Forbes article on the problems with the UK’s National Health Service. Click the link below to watch. The discussion begins at the 11:41 mark.
Commentary

Three Democratic deceptions on health care during the debates

Health care dominated the two Democratic presidential debates last week. Among the most dramatic moments was when moderator Lester Holt asked the candidates to raise their hands if they supported outlawing private insurance and forcing everyone onto a new government-run, “Medicare-for-all” plan. During each debate, only two candidates — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill ...
Health Care

Read Heartland News Story on Sally Pipes Creation of Benjamin Rush Institute

Organization Spreads Pro-Freedom Ideas in Medical Schools By Leo Pusateri In a time when 51 percent of millennials say they have a positive view of socialism, there is an organization spreading the word of free markets and capitalism in one of the sectors most vulnerable to government command and control: ...
Blog

Despite High Costs, Americans Support Potential of Innovative Gene Therapies to Cure Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

SAN FRANCISCO – A new poll from the California-based nonpartisan think tank, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), shows that Americans overwhelmingly support innovative gene therapies, which change the focus of medicine from treating illnesses to curing illnesses. Click here to read the top-line results of PRI’s poll on gene therapies ...
Blog

Celebrating 100 Episodes of “Next Round with PRI”

This week marks a milestone for PRI’s weekly “Next Round” podcast as we celebrate our 100th episode. When we first started the podcast in July 2017, our podcast had a different name, “Another Round with PRI” (I won’t go into the story of why we changed our name).  Sally Pipes’ ...
Commentary

‘Medicare for All’ Is A Trap for Businesses and Employees

Some business leaders are hopping aboard the Medicare for All bandwagon. The Business Alliance for a Healthy California, for example, now has 300 businesses calling for universal healthcare. But any businessman considering getting behind Medicare for All should know the sales pitch is flawed. The architects of Medicare for All ...
Commentary

Democrats don’t understand ‘Medicare-for-all’

Next week, 20 Democratic presidential hopefuls will gather in Miami for their first debate. One issue is sure to dominate the discussion – “Medicare-for-all.” The promise of free, government-run health care has become quite popular among Democrats since Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made it a major plank of his 2016 ...
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