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The Talk of Connecticut Interviews Wayne Winegarden on Homelessness
The Talk of Connecticut with Gary Byron | Wayne Winegarden
April 5, 2021
Wayne Winegarden joins Gary Byron on the Talk of Connecticut WDRC to talk about PRI’s new book, No Way Home, about California’s homeless epidemic. Winegarden and Byron talk about housing affordability and unaffordability on the east and west coast, increases and decreases in homelessness in major cities, and how to identify why someone is homeless.
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Watch Sally C. Pipes Interview on Newsmax TV
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” on Newsmax TV.
The interview begins at the 2:02:00 mark.
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PRI Next Round Podcast:
Wayne Winegarden – A Flawed Analysis on Valuing Medicines
PRI Next Round Podcast
April 5, 2021
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) promotes itself as “the nation’s drug pricing watchdog.” However, as documented in the first of a series of PRI reports, ICER’s cost-effectiveness analyses contain inappropriate methodologies and subjective judgments in determining the value of medicines. In this podcast, PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden discusses why ICER’s reports contain biased, inaccurate assumptions.
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President Biden’s Weak Vaccination Incentives Hurt Americans
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
April 7, 2021
Consider first that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to authorize the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for use in the United States — even though governments in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, and the European Union green-lit it months ago.
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Dr. Henry Miller and Lars Larson Discuss Vaccine Passports
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 6, 2021
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Lars Larson talk about vaccine “passports” and the concern that documentation for vaccines could be expanded for other uses. Larson compares the vaccine passports to the widespread use of social security cards and the pending policy questions from requiring medical documentation.
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Green Jobs Demonstrate The Perils Of Government-Directed Economic Growth
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
April 7, 2021
An October 21, 2020 NPR editorial arguing in favor of green jobs even had to admit that petroleum jobs pay “40% over the median [salary] according to the U.S. Energy and Employment Report – and extraction jobs on drilling sites pay nearly double the national median, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
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What’s an ESG Fund to Do? Bitcoin’s “Dirty” Secret
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
April 6, 2021
Danny Bradbury of The Balance, a personal finance website explains: “Although the time taken to produce a bitcoin doesn’t vary, the computing power used to produce it does. As more people join the bitcoin network and try to mine bitcoins, the puzzles become harder, and more computing power and electricity are used for each bitcoin produced.”
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