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The Push for Government-Run Health Care During the Coronavirus Crisis
Next Round Podcast | Sally C. Pipes
April 27, 2020
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Studies Sally C. Pipes is back to discuss some of the health care challenges that have popped up during the coronavirus crisis, including a renewed push for single-payer and calls for prescription drug price controls and a “Buy America” mandate for drug manufacturing. We also discuss a few positives changes that have occurred despite these tough times – the rise of telehealth and the rolling back of regulations to better serve patients
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Buy American Mandates Will Weaken Our Response To The Coronavirus
Forbes.com | Wayne Winegarden
April 30, 2020
The Trump Administration may implement an Executive Order that would turn this idea into actual policy. Congress, not to be outdone, is also considering several proposals that would force federal agencies to purchase drugs and medical supplies exclusively from U.S. suppliers. If implemented, these “Buy American” policies will jeopardize Americans’ health and wealth.
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How will big government California recover from the COVID-19 shutdowns?
The Bakersfield Californian | Kerry Jackson
April 27, 2020
Running a business in California, particularly a small one, is hard enough in ordinary times. Now the task has become impossible for many. If lawmakers don’t start making wholesale policy changes soon, the future will be more grim than the present.
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Can Taxpayers Afford a Big Spending Sacramento “Economic Recovery Plan”?
Right By The Bay | Tim Anaya
April 28, 2020
State Sen. Scott Wiener recently tweeted that the “Legislature and Governor should put a huge economic recovery bond on November ballot – in the tens of billions – to inject investment into the economy, put people to work, & build critical climate resiliency, housing, transportation, energy, education, water & health infrastructure.”
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The left-wing agenda of Newsom’s reopening task force
The Orange County Register | Kerry Jackson
April 25, 2020
Also on board are former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, a Keynesian who trusts government regulation over free markets; former Gov. Gray Davis, who was recalled in part because he knew the market would solve the state’s early 2000s energy crisis but wouldn’t allow it; a collection of virtue-signaling CEOs; and several union presidents, whose interest will be in securing political favors and advantages for organized labor rather than helping small businesses, and the middle and working classes reach their economic potential.
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Opening America
Right By the Bay | Rowena Itchon
April 29, 2020
While the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect peoples’ right to assemble, government also has a legitimate interest in protecting the public from a highly contagious disease. Who’s right?
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