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How Basic Income Could Promote Economic Advancement Rather Than Government Dependency
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya and Wayne Winegarden
April 28, 2021
This is simply not true when you consider that the federal government spent nearly $904 billion on Medicaid, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, food and nutrition assistance, and other income security programs. Relative to the nearly 22 million households who earn less than $25,000 annually, this equates to annual expenditures of over $41,000 per low-income household.
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Dr. Henry Miller – A COVID-19 Update and Progress on Vaccinations
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog
April 26, 2021
This week’s guest is Dr. Henry Miller, PRI senior fellow in health care studies. In addition to being a physician, Dr. Miller was a former official at the FDA and founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology. Dr. Miller provides an update on the pandemic, the progress of vaccine distribution, and his perspective on the CDC’s pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Co-hosts Rowena and Tim discuss Biden’s first 100 days, the recall effort, and new gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner.
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With HR 3, House Democrats Lose Their Grip on Reality
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
April 28, 2021
In other words, H.R. 3 outsources America’s drug-pricing policy to foreign bureaucrats — and imports their price controls. In so doing, it would destroy the market-based system that has allowed America to lead the world in medical innovation for decades.
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Biden’s ‘Green New Deal’: Glitter, nonsense, and deception
The Washington Examiner | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat
April 29, 2021
Data from many sources show clearly that solar and wind, the green energy sources in vogue, have costs and disadvantages that are conveniently hidden, while the only readily available new source of clean energy, nuclear power, is demonized. We will summarize below our two lengthy analyses of these issues that appeared here and here.
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No, Biologics Are Not Natural Monopolies
BioProcess Online | Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., Robert Popovian, Pharm.D., MS
April 28, 2021
Spending on biologics has been one of the primary drivers of rising drug spending. While biosimilar competition has taken time, their market share is substantial and growing. This growth demonstrates that biologics are not a natural monopoly. The best way to ensure continued innovation and general affordability is to implement policy reforms that prohibit rebate contracting and promote the use of bundled payments that obtain a competitive marketplace promoting the use of lower-priced medicines.
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