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New PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch Tracks Growing Opposition to Medicare for All

Pacific Research Institute | Evan Harris
December 17, 2019

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To track public opinion on single-payer, Pacific Research Institute (PRI) today is launching the PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch, which will feature a regularly updated polling aggregate on single-payer much like the Real Clear Politics aggregate polling on the presidential polls. Our Single-Payer Poll Watch will be updated every few weeks as new national polling is continually released on Medicare for All and single-payer.

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Canadian drug imports are a dose of bad medicine

Featured in Real Clear Health and the Lewiston Sun Journal | Sally C. Pipes
December 16, 2019

Further, Canada doesn’t have enough drugs to meet the needs of its own citizens. Many of the most cutting-edge drugs are in short supply in Canada, if they’re available at all. One analysis of more than 240 new medicines brought to market between 2011 and 2018 found that less than half were available north of the border. Nearly 88 percent were available in the United States.
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To Help Patients, Reform The Drug Pricing System Don’t Impose Price Controls

Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
December 13, 2019

If drug spending were driving the health care affordability problem, then the share of prescription drug spending should be rising as total health care expenditures continue to grow relative to the size of the economy. This clearly is not happening indicating that the focus on drugs as the key to controlling the systemic affordability problem is destined to fail.
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