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Drug Importation Programs Come At Too High a Cost
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
April 15, 2021
More than a dozen states are making similar moves to permit drug importation. The professed goal of these efforts is to reduce drug costs for patients. In the long run, they'll do far more to undermine access to high-tech medicines than to expand it.
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PRI Next Round Podcast:
Charles Kesler – Crisis of the Two Constitutions
PRI Next Round Podcast
April 12, 2021
Prominent conservative scholar Charles Kesler discusses his new book Crisis of the Two Constitutions – The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness with PRI senior fellow Steve Hayward. Prof. Kesler is the editor of the Claremont Review of Books, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute.
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Sanders Proposal Brings Medicare Closer To The Brink Of Collapse
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
April 12, 2021
President Joe Biden wants to lower Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 60. Now Sen. Bernie Sanders is intent on doing him one better. The Vermont socialist, the country’s leading promoter of single-payer health care, is pushing Democrats to open up Medicare to Americans as young as 55.
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Corrupting Infrastructure in Order to Expand the Federal Government’s Size and Scope
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden
April 15, 2021
The same logic holds for the myriad of proposals that would implement the Green New Deal by stealth. How else do you justify the inclusion of $400 billion in clean energy tax credits, $174 billion in additional electric vehicle subsidies, and $126 billion to build energy efficient housing.
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Time for the Roaring Twenties?
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
April 13, 2021
The stock market is at record highs. More than 900,000 Americans found jobs in March. Flapper models sashay down the runways of Paris and Milan. In a moment of weakness, even I turned my head at a “For Sale” classic Mercedes convertible (the last and only car I’ve ever owned was a Honda Civic which I clung to for more than 20 years). Are we headed for another Roaring Twenties?
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Why the Senate Parliamentarian Budget Reconciliation Approval is a Big Deal
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
April 12, 2021
Interestingly, all the debate about banning the Senate filibuster has largely been muted thanks to the use of the reconciliation process. The only wrinkle for Democrats may be any rulings by MacDonough that exclude proposals in the American Jobs Plan under budget reconciliation, similar to the removal of the minimum wage increase that was axed from the American Rescue Plan.
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The FDA’s ‘Pause’ on Distribution of the J&J Vaccine Is Overly Risk-Averse
Issues & Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 14, 2021
The decision was precipitated by six cases in the U.S. of a “rare and severe type of blood clot” in women between the ages of 18 and 48 who had received the vaccine. Almost seven million shots of the one-dose vaccine have been administered in the U.S., according to the FDA. Many state and local public health agencies have put administration of the J&J vaccine on hold.
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