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Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
The Orange County Register | Sally C. Pipes
February 5, 2020
Consider California’s last flirtation with a single, government-run healthcare system – Senate Bill 562, which passed the state Senate in 2017. The Democratic-controlled State Assembly never even scheduled a vote on the measure, which lacked any revenue-raising mechanisms despite calling for roughly $400 billion in annual spending — more than double the state budget that year.
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Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
February 4, 2020
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated, how the Chinese and U.S. governments are working to combat it, the prospects for the rapid development of a vaccine, how social media disinformation is fueling the crisis, and how concerned Americans should be about becoming the victims of a deadly pandemic on U.S. soil.
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Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
February 5, 2020
One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer health care to almost dead even, with the average support at 47 percent and average opposition at 47.25.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
2020 California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
Join us for PRI’s second annual California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference and hear policy experts, opinion leaders, and real life changemakers at informative panel discussions on California power outages, barriers to entrepreneurship, school choice, and homelessness.
Also, an evening reception celebrating the publication of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All by Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy will be held.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
Capitol View Room (15th Floor)
1209 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
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Young Leaders Circle: How Entrepreneurship Can Bring Low-Income Entrepreneurs Out of Poverty with Dr. Wayne Winegarden
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.”
Thursday, February 20, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour Begins
6:45 p.m. Moderated Interview Begins
University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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