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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich Shares Sally Pipes Forbes Column
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Sally C. Pipes
June 26, 2020
Last week, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, shared a Forbes by column by PRI president and CEO Sally C. Pipes on the dangers of extending Obamacare amid the coronaivrus, or COVID-19, pandemic. To date, Gingrich's tweet has generated hundreds of likes and retweets.
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Learning The Right Lessons From The Race For An Effective Covid-19 Treatment
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
June 30, 2020
With respect to the question of value, the lesson is clear. The high cost of innovation includes the large sums of money invested, the lost options of investing in other potential opportunities, and, separate from these costs, the many financial risks that have been incurred.
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Democrats’ Obamacare Bailout Could Extend The Pandemic
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
June 25, 2020
The House Democrats’ plan would allow people who make more than 400% of the federal poverty level—$104,800 for a family of four—eligible for subsidized coverage through the exchanges. It would also increase the size of the subsidy for all people who qualify for subsidized coverage.
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The coronavirus’s silent dental epidemic
The Washington Examiner | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D., and Shiv Sharma, DDS
June 28, 2020
On March 16, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised dentists to suspend all routine examinations and limit treatment only to emergencies. While the measure was necessary to limit exposure and conserve personal protective equipment, myriad oral health conditions have now gone undiagnosed or untreated for more than two months. The resulting dental procedures will be more extensive, the outcomes worse and more expensive, and the backlog will not disappear immediately.
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Do coronavirus numbers show bias in health care? This study’s results will surprise you
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
June 29, 2020
Some claim that a lack of access to health care is to blame. The NBER paper’s author, University of Virginia economist John McLaren, quotes a Washington, D.C., pastor: “I have seen diagnostic tests not performed … and hospitalizations cut extremely short – or not happen at all – because of insurance.” Yet, when McLaren runs the numbers, he concludes that “access to health care insurance is not a driver of the racial mortality disparity.”
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Sally Pipes Mentioned in WSJ Op-ed on Biden
The Wall Street Journal | James Freeman
June 25, 2020
Sally Pipes writes in Forbes about the Biden campaign’s recent announcement of “policy task forces”:
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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Trump not giving up on Obamacare repeal
The Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
June 29, 2020
The Trump administration recently filed a legal brief in support of the 18 states petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare. The action has drawn sharp criticism, most notably from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who called it a “heartless crusade” during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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How Medicines are Sold in the U.S. ([link removed])
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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