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Biden’s Mask Of Moderation Has Finally Slipped
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
June 22, 2020
Last month, Biden announced the creation of several policy task forces designed to bring the party together. Those task forces are a who’s who of the progressive elite—and signal that Biden is going to run for the White House on a platform that is further to the left than any Democrat in history.
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Medicare for All and the COVID-19 Crisis
PRI Next Round Podcast | Sally C. Pipes
June 22, 2020
As single-payer advocates such as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are seizing on the COVID-19 pandemic to push even more aggressively for a complete takeover of our health care system by the federal government, listen to a special presentation of our recent webinar featuring PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discussing why “Medicare for All” would be the wrong solution for the U.S. to embark on to combat the coronavirus and other future health crises.
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What coronavirus data show – it’s time for the country to do this
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
June 22, 2020
This is all absurd. After months of lockdown, the most reasonable interpretations of the data indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak is largely contained to a few geographic hotspots – and that the virus poses a far greater threat to specific at-risk groups than the population at large. |
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Sally C. Pipes featured in Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial
Las Vegas Review-Journal | Sally C. Pipes
June 11, 2020
“Nearly half of Americans say the outbreak has forced them or someone in their household to delay care, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll,” Sally C. Pipes, a health care policy fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, noted this week. More than “10 percent of those reporting delays said their or their family member’s condition worsened because of the delay.” |
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How To Fix The Coronavirus-Caused Glitches In The Food Supply Chain
Issues and Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D., and Kathleen Hefferon, Ph.D.
June 18, 2020
The recent, rampant outbreaks of COVID-19 among meat-processing workers – over the past month or so, the number of infections tied to three of the country’s biggest meat processors (Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, and JBS) has jumped from a bit over 3,000 to more than 11,000 – are just one sobering example of the vulnerabilities in what we thought was our secure, efficient food supply chain.
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The Professor and Pete reach the most difficult part of their journey: understanding how medicines are sold. It’s a complex system that hurts patients and at times exposes them to paying excessive costs. They also learn that patients who get their prescriptions from a pharmacy don’t really benefit from drug discounts negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – only PBMs and insurers do.
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