Technology Can Maker Rural America Healthier
Lewiston Sun Journal | Sally C. Pipes
August 26, 2019
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a plan to improve health care in rural America. In a statement posted on his campaign website, he wrote, “Rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people in cities.” He is right, but his plan misses the mark. Buttigieg wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars expanding public health insurance programs and have the government pay doctors to move to rural communities. Such a program would be expensive and take years to make an impact.
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Corporate Profits Are Socially Responsible
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
August 24, 2019
The Business Roundtable recently released a statement announcing it had redefined “the purpose of a corporation.” Signed by almost 200 of the most powerful CEOs in America, the statement “affirms the essential role corporations can play in improving our society,” according to one of its signatories. Specifically, it suggests that companies should focus on serving the needs of “stakeholders” like customers, employees, and communities as much as those of their shareholders. That’s ludicrous.
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Sally Pipes Discusses How Union Members Will Be Impacted by Medicare-for-All on The David Webb Show
August 21, 2019
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses how union members would be affected by the push by Democratic presidential candidates for Medicare-for-All on "The David Webb Show" on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125.
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Vaping Hysteria Will Mean More Tobacco Deaths
Issues and Insights | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Jeff Stier
August 20, 2019
When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks. Conversely, it’s harmful and immoral to spread misinformation that negatively affects public perception of life-saving products and discourages their use.
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Plants Could Give Us New Treatments for Cancer, HIV, and Other Diseases If We Had Better "Pharming" Regulations
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Kathleen Hefferon
August 21, 2019
Politicians talk a lot about farming but seldom about “pharming,” even though the latter can also have a big impact on Americans’ pocketbooks—and their health. The punny name refers to genetically modifying plants such as corn, rice, tobacco and alfalfa to produce high concentrations of pharmaceutical ingredients. Many common medicines already come from plants, including morphine, the fiber supplement Metamucil and the cancer drug Taxol. Yet heavy-handed federal regulations have frozen out pharming efforts, making it far too difficult for researchers to use this approach to create new medications.
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