PRI's Focus on Health Care
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The FDA Needs Reform - Biden's Nominee is Not the Person to Do It
Issues and Insights | Henry I. Miller and Jeff Stier
February 14, 2022
Government regulation offers some reassurance to the public, to be sure, but when it is wrong-headed or merely fails to be cost-effective, it actually costs lives – directly by withholding life-saving and life-enhancing products, and also indirectly by diverting societal resources to gratuitous regulatory compliance.
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California Single-Payer Has Gone Up In Flames - For Now. Will Progressives Escape the Firestorm?
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
February 14, 2022
Progressive Democrats in the Assembly were unable to line up enough support for AB 1400, which would’ve launched a state takeover of private health insurance, Medicare, and Medi-Cal. So Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, the bill’s main sponsor, let it expire without a vote.
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Government is Fighting Covid-19 in Tape Delay
Real Clear Policy | Sally Pipes
February 10, 2022
To great fanfare, the Biden administration just launched a website where Americans can request at-home COVID-19 tests, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service free of charge. It’s a sad commentary on the competence of the federal government that the successful launch of a website counts as a big win these days. It’s also a case of too little, too late.
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At the 'Pharmer's' Market, Patients Suffer While Middlemen Profit
Issues and Insights | Sally Pipes
February 9, 2022
Imagine a visit to the local farmer’s market. When you’re about to pay the farmer for some fruit, a man in a suit and sunglasses interrupts the exchange and offers to negotiate a discount with the farmer.
Cool, right? Not so fast. The man in the suit didn’t tell you who the discount was for.
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