New Brief: Counterfeit Drugs Harm Patients, Economy, Innovation
PRI Center for Medical Economics and Innovation | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Wayne Winegarden
October 13, 2020

A new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute shows that counterfeit drugs put patients in harm’s way, hinder drug innovation, and lead to job losses. Proposals like drug importation or price controls, if implemented, would exacerbate the problem and result in more health and economic consequences.

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Putting A Mirror Up To Obamacare
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
October 12, 2020

The confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begin today and Democrats are up in arms. In a recent speech, Joe Biden warned that Barrett’s confirmation would jeopardize the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that seeks to invalidate the law one week after Election Day. A final ruling will not come until late spring or early summer 2021.

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Obama Admits… Biden & Bernie’s Socialist-Democrat Goals Are the Same
Texas Insider | Sally C. Pipes
October 8, 2020

The “Green New Deal”, written and endorsed by Sanders and his fellow progressives, aims to eliminate oil and gas-based emissions across the country by 2050. This wildly ambitious goal would require a wholesale reshaping of our entire U.S. economy, if not our way of life, by bureaucrats in Washington.

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What the campaigns aren’t saying about healthcare
The Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
October 12, 2020

Consider the lack of consumer choice on the Obamacare exchanges. Between 2015 and 2018, the average number of insurers per state was nearly cut in half. That figure has since crept up slightly. But exchange customers in more than 70% of counties still only have one or two insurers to choose from. Nearly three-quarters of the policies for sale on the exchanges limit patients to narrow provider networks.

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The bleak reality of Biden’s healthcare proposal
The Naples Daily News | Sally C. Pipes
October 8, 2020

Biden wants to lower Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 60. He’s also calling for the creation of a public health insurance option that anyone could purchase through Obamacare’s exchanges. An initial version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the House included a public option, but the Senate stripped it from the bill before it became law in 2010.

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