Read Wayne Winegarden in the Wall Street Journal: Cut Out PBMs, the Middlemen of Healthcare
 
Wall Street Journal | Wayne Winegarden
July 17, 2022

In their op-ed “In Defense of Pharmacy Benefit Managers” (July 12), Joe Grogan and Casey Mulligan claim the job of PBMs “is to keep costs down and manage patient care.” Here, they inadvertently reveal the harm that these middlemen create.

The fundamental flaw in the U.S. healthcare system is that third parties are managing patient care. Patients should be empowered to manage their own care, not rely on third-party payers and PBM middlemen.


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Improving Access to Paxlovid Long Overdue
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
July 15, 2022

In an effort to boost access to the antiviral Paxlovid, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will now allow pharmacists to prescribe the medicine; the agency announced this last week, on July 6.


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'Build Back Better' would tear down patients' hope for better medicines
 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sally Pipes
July 15, 2022

Congressional Democrats are working to revive the multi-trillion-dollar spending package once dubbed “Build Back Better.” They intend to finance this wave of spending in part by siphoning money away from life-saving research on diseases like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s.


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An Answer to Our Broken Health Insurance
 
Right by the Bay | McKenzie Richards
July 8, 2022

Even though an increasing share of Americans have health insurance, positive health outcomes and access to health services are actually decreasing, as found in a 2021 study by PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden. Why?


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