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NEW BRIEF: Tearing Down Drug ‘Rebate Walls’ Would Save Patients, Improve Health Care Outcomes
November 25, 2020
Tearing down drug “rebate walls” that increase patient costs and block access to cheaper and often more effective medications would increase competition, lower out-of-pocket costs, and improve health outcomes, finds a new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute.
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Steve Moore – What Lies Ahead: Policy Implications from the 2020 Election
PRI Next Round Podcast
December 7, 2020
Steve Moore, a member of President Trump’s economic task force, discusses the domestic policy implications from the 2020 election with moderator PRI senior fellow Steve Hayward. Steve Moore offer his insights into what lies ahead for our nation amid the ongoing pandemic, civil unrest, and increasing political divide.
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Heroes Act Gave Millions to California’s Poshest Cities
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
December 9, 2020
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who called McConnell’s bill “emaciated”, hailed the Heroes Act passed by the House as the model for stimulus relief. It “doesn’t pick and choose who we’re going to help during the greatest health and economic crisis in decades,” he said.
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A Tribute to the Great Economics Professor Walter Williams, RIP
Right By the Bay Blog | Sally C. Pipes
December 8, 2020
It is with much sadness that I learned of the recent passing of one of my favorite and most respected economists, Professor Walter Williams. Walter was a prolific writer, author, educator, and defender of freedom. He died on December 3rd at 84, having taught his final economics class at George Mason University the previous day.
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High-tech medical and dental innovation garner the headlines but the most impactful practices are mostly lower tech and prevention-focused
Genetic Literacy Project | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Shiv Sharma
December 10, 2020
Much of the progress in medicine during the past half-century has involved expensive, high-tech diagnostic tests and therapies. The trend in this direction worries health economists and politicians because it has the potential to send already-high healthcare costs into the stratosphere.
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Memo to Newsom and Garcetti: Try Leveling with Californians for a Change
Right By the Bay | Tim Anaya
December 10, 2020
But the sharp words in the announcement and dramatic language in the city’s official order, blasted out to city residents via e-mail and text alerts, were immediately met with mass confusion on social media that triggered a mini panic in the city that evening. Almost immediately, city officials were forced to backtrack and “clarify.”
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Will Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ‘Do Something’ About Lockdown Rules Made Absent Evidence?
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
December 7, 2020
In an emotional video, Marsden said that when she arrived Friday to pick up some items from her restaurant for a shutdown protest she was organizing, she found that a movie company had set up a canopied mess hall to feed the film crew right across a narrow strip of asphalt from the now-closed outdoor seating she opened so she wouldn’t lose her business.
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