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Wayne Winegarden – Electricity, Environment, and the Economy
PRI's Next Round
August 30, 2021
Next Round’s guest is economist Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in Business and Economics. Dr. Winegarden discusses some of the key issues being debated in Washington and Sacramento, from the infrastructure bill to the $3.5 trillion budget resolution package to California and the nation’s climate change policies. As director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, he also highlights his breakthrough research on valuing medicines.
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Saving California, PRI's new book, is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California's lost luster - regardless of what politician runs our massive state government apparatus. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas. Although their chapters include a fair share of criticism of current policy directions - how could they not? - they each propose real-world policy changes that could push the state onto a better track.
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Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Healthcare Provisions Are Disastrous
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
August 30, 2021
It shouldn’t take a Ph.D in mathematics to understand these new liabilities will hasten the program’s slide into insolvency and create an even bigger burden on taxpayers. But perhaps it’s too much to expect the progressive ideologues who insist “2 + 2 = 5” to understand basic accounting.
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Newsday Amarillo Interviews Lance Izumi on Homeschooling
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Newsday Amarillo | Lance Izumi
August 31, 2021
Watch Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his recent study showing how a two-part drug pricing system would ensure prices more accurately reflect how patients value drugs with Scripps National News. The report aired on 60 television stations in 42 markets across the country reaching 31% of U.S. TV households.
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What causes the COVID-19 surges?
The Washington Examiner | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 1, 2021
The worst situation is in intensive care units , which care for the sickest patients with highly specialized medical staff who are in short supply and are becoming progressively burned out as the pandemic drags on. The result is that in many parts of the country, patients needing to be hospitalized are being shuttled long distances to available beds and are receiving substandard care due to staffing shortages.
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