PRI's Focus on Health Care

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Healthcare provider shortages are a symptom of government red tape
Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes | October 23, 2023

Labor shortages, or suboptimal distributions of healthcare personnel, are common across the country. Government red tape is largely to blame. Cutting that red tape could make it easier for millions of patients to access care.

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Incompetence, Abuse Comprise 340B Program
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes | October 25, 2023

There’s a paradox at the center of American healthcare policy. The government will spend just shy of $2 trillion subsidizing healthcare this year — including over $500 billion on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. But low-income Americans still struggle to afford care.

According to one recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly seven in ten Americans earning less than $40,000 a year find it at least somewhat difficult to pay for healthcare.

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PRI Brief on Tradeoffs from COVID-19 Featured in National Review
October 25, 2023

More than three years after the Covid pandemic emerged, the data are in: State governments that implemented stringent restrictions ended up contributing to long-lasting economic and social problems and other health impacts.

Economist Wayne Winegarden and policy associate McKenzie Richards of the nonpartisan, pro-free-market Pacific Research Institute recently authored a research brief detailing how more-severe Covid-19 mitigation policies — namely lockdowns, masking mandates, school and business closures, and social distancing — led to reduced infection and mortality rates, but at the expense of record unemployment, negative economic growth, and worsening educational outcomes . . .

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