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Competitive Energy Markets, Not Monopoly, Delivers Affordable, Reliable, And Low-Emission Energy
Forbes.com | Wayne Winegarden
June 7, 2021
Texas’ energy debacle during this past winter has led to a great deal of introspection regarding which energy market structure is the most appropriate. Most analysts would agree that energy market regulations should facilitate access to affordable and reliable electricity, while generating the lowest feasible emissions. The controversy arises with respect to how these goals can be achieved.
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Join PRI for live webinar with Carol Roth
Join PRI for a special conversation between Carol Roth, New York Times bestselling author and PRI fellow and economist Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. Roth will share details about her new book, The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America.
Tuesday, June 29, 9 AM Pacific time
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Anne Marie Schubert – The Rising Crime in California
PRI's Next Round Podcast
June 7, 2021
In this podcast our guest is Anne Marie Schubert, District Attorney for Sacramento County. Ms. Schubert along with 44 DAs are suing Gov. Newsom for his policy to allow 76,000 inmates – including many who committed violent crimes – to attain early release with good behavior credits. We also discuss the state’s growing soft-on-crime approach and the rise in crime in major cities across California
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The White House Continues Its Campaign To Deny People Insurance Choices
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
June 7, 2021
But the reality is different. Even high-risk individuals can find more affordable coverage in the short-term market than in the exchange market. A 2019 Manhattan Institute analysis found that a 60-year-old smoker in Atlanta could find a short-term plan with benefits similar to an exchange plan for hundreds of dollars less in premiums and deductibles.
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To See the Fallacy of H.R. 3 (Lower Drug Costs Now Act) Just Look at the Inflation Data
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden
June 9, 2021
If implemented, H.R. 3 would endanger patient access to current efficacious medicines and threaten the innovation that is leading to better treatments for cancer and cures for awful diseases like spinal muscular atrophy. It would also make it more difficult to resolve the actual problems afflicting drug markets.
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Read Sally Pipes’ Remarks from Adam Smith Society National Meeting
Adam Smith Society Meeting | Sally C. Pipes
June 9, 2021
A freer labor market would also enable physicians trained abroad to practice unencumbered in the United States. Those here on H1-B visas are only allowed to practice at the facility sponsoring them. As a result, our country has 10,000 qualified, working doctors who can’t volunteer at a clinic or a COVID vaccination site.
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Dr. Henry Miller Explains the New-FDA Approved Alzheimer Drug
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
June 8, 2021
Dr. Henry Miller, physician, molecular biologist, and senior fellow with PRI, talks to the Lars Larson Show about the new Alzheimer drug approved by the FDA. Dr. Miller gives the history of Alzheimer drug approvals and the controversy around it. Larson and Dr. Miller talk about the approval process used by the FDA, costs, and how additional testing for the drug would work.
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What’s Really at Stake in the Supreme Court Obamacare Challenge
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
June 9, 2021
It’s a controversial argument, one that even many conservative and libertarian legal scholars don’t buy. At oral arguments in November, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not seem sympathetic to the position of the Republican state attorneys general.
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