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America’s drug rebate system is broken
The Hill | Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., and David Balto
June 23, 2021
"Rebate walls can also harm patients’ health. One of the most common and pernicious rebate wall tactics is to require that patients “fail first” on a blockbuster drug before insurers will cover an alternative medicine. What this means is if your doctor prescribes a certain medicine to treat your condition, you may have to take another medicine for 90 days and prove that it didn’t work before your insurance plan will cover the medicine your doctor prescribed."
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Last Chance to Register: PRI 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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PRI's Next Round Podcast
Gail Heriot – A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education
PRI Next Round Podcast
June 21, 2021
Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, was co-chair of both the campaign for California’s Prop. 209 in 1996 and the successful campaign to prevent its repeal in 2020. Editor of the new book A Dubious Expediency, she offers compelling reasons to reconsider educational policies that discriminate in favor of some students and inevitably against others.
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The American Left’s Obsession with Government-Run Health Care Defies Reality
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
June 23, 2021
They’d be wise to take stock of the latest data chronicling the performance of the government-dominated healthcare systems in the United Kingdom and Canada. For years, Britons and Canadians have struggled to gain timely access to high-quality care. In the wake of the pandemic, things have only gotten worse.
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SCOTUS move on Harvard Asian bias case a hopeful sign
The Boston Herald | Lance Izumi
June 21, 2021
According to Arcidiacono, Harvard penalized Asian Americans by giving them relatively low personal ratings on traits such as likability, integrity, helpfulness, courage and kindness, which is absurd and insulting. Thus, Asians with high academic ratings received low personal ratings, while other minorities with low academic ratings received high personal ratings, which is a sign of race preferences at work.
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The Deep State Strikes Again
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
June 23, 2021
In California, this has played out in the case Americans for Prosperity v. Becerra, now before the U.S. Supreme Court and which PRI filed an amicus brief. California law requires that charities like PRI and AFP submit to the state a list of the names and addresses of major donors on their tax forms.
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The SEC Risks Misinformation If Standardized And Detailed Climate Risks Disclosures Are Adopted
Forbes.com | Wayne Winegarden
June 21, 2021
Requiring companies to provide more detailed disclosures will more likely promote misinformation for investors rather than information. Due to the large number of policy and market uncertainties, the potential costs from global climate change simply defies a precise and replicable methodology.
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