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San Francisco Chronicle columnist Emily Hoeven
on the issues facing California and San Francisco
October 17, 2023
Our guest this week is Emily Hoeven, opinion columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle. Before coming to the Chronicle, she wrote CalMatters’ daily WhatMatters newsletter on California politics and policy and makes frequent appearances on TV, radio, podcasts, panels, and helped launch a weekly political segment on ABC 10.
We chat with Emily on a variety of issues affecting San Francisco and California from homelessness, to housing affordability, to the new leadership in the Assembly and Gov. Newsom’s political prospects.
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Decoupling PBM Fees Enhances Patient Outcomes
Forbes | Sally Pipes and Wayne Winegarden | October 18, 2023
The pharmaceutical supply chain is rife with misaligned incentives. Due to these disincentives, policies that make sense under most market conditions create problems that harm patients. Coupling the fees of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to the discounts they negotiate exemplifies this problem.
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Autonomous Vehicles Continue to Drive in California Fast Lane Despite Union Opposition
Capital Ideas | Kerry Jackson | October 18, 2023
Bartlett Cleland, a Pacific Research Institute senior fellow, says Newsom “is taking the side of letting innovation flourish rather than restricting or eliminating it based on fear of change,” likely because the governor sees California “slipping in its dominance of the place for innovation.
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