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Debra Saunders – Covering the Trump White House
PRI's Next Round Podcast
June 14, 2021
This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Debra discusses what it was like to be a member of the White House press corps during the Trump years, reporting during the coronavirus pandemic, and offers her insights on the state of California.
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Two weeks away: PRI 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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Biden’s Self-Congratulation Can’t Cover up Obamacare’s Failings
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
June 16, 2021
It’s unclear whether that’s any better than going without coverage. A landmark study of a pre-Obamacare expansion of Medicaid in Oregon compared patients that were randomly selected for the program with an uninsured control group. After two years, those enrolled in Medicaid posted “no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes.”
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The US Drug Pricing System Needs to Be Fixed
Outsourced Pharma | Wayne Winegarden and Robert Popovian
June 16, 2021
The GAO analysis also fails to account for the broader healthcare systems of the other countries. According to the data maintained by the OECD, total pharmaceutical expenditures per capita in the U.S. were 1.89, 1.42, and 1.83 times as large as the expenditures in Australia, Canada, and France, respectively. This appears to confirm the GAO’s analysis that prices (which are different than expenditures) for the 41 brand-name drugs examined were two to four times as high.
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Dr. Henry Miller Provides a COVID-19 Vaccine Rate Update on the Lars Larson Show
The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
June 15, 2021
PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller talks about the misleading claims about national vaccine rates versus progress by each state, and how the vaccine rates breakdown by region with the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show. Dr. Miller also discusses statements about vaccines by President Joe Biden during his run for the presidency and it’s impact on current vaccination rates.
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What Americans can Learn from Argentina’s Infrastructure Spending
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | McKenzie Richards
June 16, 2021
During the years 2014 to 2016, I lived in the poorest regions of Argentina to serve the people there. In 2015, at the end of Cristina Kirchner’s presidency, the Central Bank of Argentina’s reserves were depleted, and the country had the highest tax rates in its history. To curb inflation and economic collapse, some banks initiated small “corralitos” which restricted how much cash individuals could withdraw each week.
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Don’t be fooled by Biden’s victory lap on Obamacare
The Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
June 11, 2021
Biden has made exchange coverage much more attractive by increasing subsidies for it. The Democrats’ American Rescue Plan Act, passed into law in March, ratcheted down the share of income that everyone making less than 400% of the federal poverty level, or about $51,000 for an individual, has to put toward their premiums. For the first time, Biden began subsidizing coverage for people who make more than four times the poverty level.
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