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Warren's 'Medicare-for-All' is Financial Fantasy - There's No Way to Do This Fuzzy Math
Fox News | Sally C. Pipes
November 4, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has released her plan for financing “Medicare-for-all.” She claims it’ll cost “just” $20.5 trillion in new federal spending over 10 years, with, in her words, “not one penny in middle-class tax increases.” Warren has little choice but to indulge in fuzzy math. After all, doubling everyone’s taxes or delivering a blow to the economy more severe than the Great Recession is no way to win an election.
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Watch Sally Pipes on Fox Business: How Much Would a Single-Payer Plan Cost?
October 31, 2019
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PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses 2020 Democratic contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to provide a public health care system with host Elizabeth MacDonald on “The Evening Edit” on Fox Business. Pipes makes the case that the Warren plan would possibly price private insurers out of the market and could cause job losses.
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We Need a Cure for the Arrogance of Drug Price Controls
Forbes.com | Wayne Winegarden
October 29, 2019
“Three hundred forty-five billion dollars in savings versus the cost of eight to 15 fewer drugs over 10 years, I frankly think it’s worth it.”
Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL), hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee
In the above quote, Representative Soto is defending H.R. 3 ([link removed]) , the drug price control bill Speaker Nancy Pelosi is advocating. While the Congressman believes that the costs of price controls are “worth it”, patients living with diseases that lack an effective treatment may disagree.
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Wayne Winegarden Discusses Drug Price Controls on Lars Larson Show
Lars Larson Show
October 29, 2019
Listen to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his recent Forbes op-ed on prescription drug price controls and how they would threaten access to innovative cures for America’s patients on “The Lars Larson Show.”
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Trump's Executive Order Strengthens Medicare in the Face of 'Medicare-for-All' Threat
South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Sally C. Pipes
October 29, 2019
Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order ([link removed]) designed to defend Medicare against the threat of “Medicare-for-all.” Speaking to a crowd in The Villages, Florida, ([link removed]) the president promised that his order would “strengthen, protect, and defend Medicare for all of our senior citizens.”
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Dr. Henry Miller Celebrates Anniversary of Genetically-Engineered Human Insulin on Lars Larson Show
Lars Larson Show
November 1, 2019
Listen to PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller talk about his recent article on the anniversary of the manufacturing of human insulin by genetically-engineered bacteria on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show.
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