PRI's Focus on Health Care

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COVID-19 Makes Employer-Based Coverage Indefensible
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
May 26, 2020

The crisis has driven home the imprudence of tying health insurance to employment. Our system not only makes coverage precarious but also inflates costs and reduces consumer choice. It would be better to devolve power to individual consumers and allow them to own insurance policies they can take with them from job to job.

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Coronavirus recovery — Want to help the economy? Don’t do this
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
May 25, 2020

After qualifying for a small business loan, the owner of Hoffman Car Wash in Albany, N.Y., told The Wall Street Journal that he could afford to bring back furloughed workers at their pre-crisis wage of $13 an hour. Those workers are currently making around $23 an hour on unemployment, which could discourage them from returning.
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Surviving the Pandemic Will Require Scientific, Evidence-Based Decisions
Human Events | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat
May 24, 2020

In times of crisis, we tend to look to our government for guidance. But—and it pains us to say this—the federal response has been far from flawless. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first sent out tests for the virus that were defective. Then, weeks later, they shipped out a second batch that required a component they did not include, one that was in short supply commercially.
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PRI Drug Pricing Video #5 - Sage the Detective Dog Sniffs Out Why Drug Prices Vary ([link removed])
Prof. Salvare and Pete Paystoomuch join Sage the Detective Dog in searching the Drug Pricing Maze for clues about why drug prices are so different. Along the way, they learn that drug prices vary because there are so many different types of drugs, and how we make orphan drugs that treat patients with rare diseases affordable and accessible.

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