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Fans of Medicare for All Have an Ally in Biden
Featured in the Boston Herald and Inside Sources | Sally C. Pipes
September 19, 2020

Consequently, people would drop their private coverage and move to the public option. That would cause providers to raise rates for private insurers even more. Consumers would see those rate hikes in the form of higher premiums. And yet more people would flee to the public option. Eventually, private insurers wouldn’t have any more customers. And the public option would be the only option. We’d have Medicare for All by default.

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Dr. Henry Miller Explains November COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges
The John Batchelor Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 19, 2020

PRI Senor Fellow Dr. Henry Miller joins the John Batchelor Show for a two-part discussion on what can go wrong with a November vaccine for the coronavirus. Miller talks about how safe a vaccine would be this fall and discrepancies between comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other federal experts, noting that more data is needed from the testing and clinical trials.
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Price Controls Are Disastrous For Rents And Will Be For Drugs
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
September 15, 2020

Instead of adding additional regulations that worsen the problems, the best way to address the high costs of rent in places like Manhattan and San Francisco is to remove the government policies – such as rent control and overly burdensome zoning regulations – that are limiting supply and driving prices higher.
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Why a coronavirus vaccine ‘October Surprise’ could be an October disaster
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 17, 2020

It was no secret that there would be intense pressure on the FDA from a White House desperate for good news to provide an “October Surprise” in the form of a vaccine approval before the November 3rd election, even if that approval was premature. When I wrote about this subject only last month, I described the wall that the head of the FDA, Dr. Stephen Hahn, and his colleagues had constructed in order to resist that pressure. Well, watch out for falling debris, because the wall is crumbling.

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Making the Entire Health Care System More Affordable – 3 Keys to Reform Drug Pricing System, Part 3

As the Professor and Pete search for the final key to escape the drug pricing maze, they visit the City of Free Enterprise and learn that reforms to make the entire health care system more affordable are critical to making prescription drugs more accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit www.medecon.org

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