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New Brief Shows Impact of California’s Surprise Medical Billing Law: Lower Quality Care, Reduced Access, Higher System Costs
Pacific Research Institute | Wayne Winegarden
August 19, 2020
California’s surprise medical billing law (Assembly Bill 72) – which imposes price controls on the rates out-of-network physicians can charge at in-network facilities – is hurting patients with lower quality care, reduced access, and higher health care system costs, finds a new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute.
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This Week on PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
Craft Beer, Distilleries, and COVID-19
August 17, 2020
This week’s podcast is a special presentation of PRI’s recent Young Leaders’ Circle webinar, which brought together distillery owners, craft brewers, and licensing experts to examine the impact that COVID-19 has had on the production of our favorite cocktails and beers. The craft beer and distillery industry has seen incredible disruption, with states and counties opening and closing breweries almost overnight. California, like many other states, has adjusted its alcohol distribution and regulations to allow breweries and distilleries easier access to customers. Are these regulations working? Are there any changes needed? What does the rest of 2020 look like? Should temporary regulatory relief be made permanent?
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Canadian Father Dies Due To Covid-19 Delays For Single-Payer Elective Surgeries
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
August 11, 2020
Walcroft’s surgery was one of the 100,000 procedures delayed or cancelled by Canadian health authorities in response to Covid-19. Some patients have died because of these delays. Christine Elliot, the Health Minister of Ontario, has admitted that three dozen people in her province have died because of cancelled heart surgeries.
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Wayne Winegarden Talks Healthcare Price Controls with the Pegasus Institute
The Pegasus Institute | Wayne Winegarden
August 17, 2020
PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden joins the Pegasus Institute to discuss the danger of price controls in health care including hurting rural health care providers and threatening the already thin margins many hospitals operate on. Winegarden also talks about the impact of the coronavirus and COVID-19.
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Wayne Winegarden Quoted in Newsweek on Congressional Stimulus Debate
Newsweek | Jenni Fink
August 18, 2020
Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, agreed that a “tightly focused” response should center on targeting families and businesses bearing the brunt of the pandemic to “help them weather the storm,” and policies that incentivize private sector growth once shutdowns are over.
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CAPITAL IDEAS – Defending Equity: Newsom Defunds Students So Students Sue
PRI's Capital Ideas | Lance Izumi
August 20, 2020
While some growing regular public schools are also hurt by SB 98, successful charter schools are especially hard hit because of their popularity with parents and their children. This hit comes on top of teacher-union-backed anti-charter laws enacted last year, including one law that limits charter school expansion, which hurts minority children in poor areas.
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