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New Biosimilars Issue Brief Shows Massive State and Taxpayer Savings Possible by Expanding Biosimilars Market
PRI Center for Medical Economics and Innovation | Wayne Winegarden
October 03, 2019
Biosimilars have the opportunity to bring significant savings to state Medicaid programs and consumers with commercial insurance according to a new study released today by PRI's Wayne Winegarden.
“Every state would experience significant savings in the state Medicaid programs from expanding the use of biosimilars compared to the more expensive originator biologics,” said Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation and author of the new issue brief on biosimilars. “The same benefits will also accrue to patients covered in the commercial market.”
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Listen to PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
Damon Dunn – My Life in Poverty and Why Socialism Doesn’t Work
September 30, 2019
PRI Fellow in Business and Economics Damon Dunn joins the podcast to discuss his new brief on the rise of socialism. He shares stories from his childhood growing up in poverty in Texas as his inspiration for striving to work his way up the economic ladder rather than become addicted to government anti-poverty programs.
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It’s the Illegal Products, Stupid
American Greatness | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 30, 2019
For a start, the problem isn’t currently prescribed opioids, such as fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. A study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that from 2012 to 2017, a time when the overdose death rate was markedly accelerating, the rate of opioid prescriptions in patients who had not previously used opioids fell 54 percent, a decline driven by a decreasing number of prescribers.
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Is California's Data Privacy Law a Ticking Time Bomb for Business?
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
September 03, 2019
The final wrinkle for data privacy in California is another measure that could be placed before California voters on the November 2020 ballot. Guess who’s pushing that proposal? The original author for the California Consumer Privacy Act; Alastair Mactaggart. Mactaggart’s threat of a ballot measure in 2018 was the original impetus for the California Consumer Privacy Act.
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ObamaCare, not Trump, is adding to the number of uninsured Americans
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
September 30, 2019
Contrary to the talking points trotted out by ObamaCare’s defenders, average premiums declined in part because of waivers the Trump administration granted to several states, which let them use ObamaCare subsidy money more effectively. A study by the Heritage Foundation found that the median premium in six of these waiver states fell almost 11 percent this year. The median premium increased in the non-waiver states by more than 3 percent.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Thatcher Gala Dinner with Keynote Speaker Peter Thiel and Special Award Recipient Chris Cox
On Saturday, November 9, 2019, PRI will host its 8th Annual Baroness Thatcher Gala Dinner at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach, California. We are thrilled to be celebrating our 40th Anniversary with entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel as our keynote speaker. PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Steven Hayward will lead an in-depth Q&A session with Peter Thiel that will address issues such as political bias at technology companies and campus free speech.
At the Gala, PRI board member Paul D. Tosetti, a partner at Latham & Watkins, will present the 2019 Baroness Thatcher Liberty Award to the Honorable Christopher Cox, a former PRI board member, for his commitment to liberty and for his embodiment of the principles of Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa
900 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, California
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