PRI's Focus on Health Care

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How The Private Sector Can Help Address The Doctor Shortage

Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
June 21, 2021

In 2019, foundations donated over $75 billion to charitable causes, and corporations contributed another $21 billion. Diverting even half a percent of that money into medical residencies would go a long way towards fixing the doctor shortage—and the resulting health disparities that so many foundations and businesses want to solve.
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Government-run health care is bad for business

The Washington Times | Sally C. Pipes
June 22, 2021

Government could tighten its grip on our health care in many ways. The Biden administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are advocating for price controls on pharmaceuticals and a “public option,” a government-run insurance plan that’d “compete” against private plans. That competition would be on an unlevel playing field, of course, since the government plan could weather indefinite losses.

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Waiving Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Is a Bad Idea and Sets a Dangerous Precedent

Townhall.com | Wayne Winegarden, Robert Popovian, Peter Pitts
June 21, 2021

The WTO waiver blows up this careful process by allowing pretty much anyone to go into the business of producing Covid-19 vaccines. Suddenly, it’s the wild west out there, with legitimate producers trying to compete with aggressive cost and corner-cutters, to say nothing of the outright fraud that has long driven the lucrative counterfeit drug trade. All the research demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines goes out the window under such conditions.
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