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Price Controls Impose High Costs On Patients
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
January 23, 2020
This decline in innovation across Europe coincided with the imposition of price controls in these countries. As a result of these regulations, Europe has watched as the well-paying innovative pharmaceutical industry migrated across the Atlantic. Now, the pharmaceutical industry creates hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs in the U.S., not in the EU.
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Listen to PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
Joseph Tartakovsky – Martin v. Boise and the Homeless Crisis
January 20, 2020
Joseph Tartakovsky, a PRI adjunct fellow and with the law firm Gibson Dunn, discusses the homeless case Martin v. the City of Boise. It involves five homeless people who sued Boise, Idaho for fining them for violating a city ordinance prohibiting people from living in the streets. The homeless group believed that Boise violated the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual clause. The LA City Council sided with Boise filing an amicus brief in support of Boise’s position. The ruling has tremendous implications for the homeless crisis in California and other western cities.
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Henry Miller Explains Spread of Wuhan Chinese Flu on the John Batchelor Show
The John Batchelor Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
January 23, 2020
Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. provides an update to the Chinese coronavirus, or what is being called the Wuhan flu for the Chinese city that the new strand of flu originated in. The first case of the flu was confirmed in the United States this week and the area around Wuhan, China has been put under lockdown.
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Sally Pipes Breaks Down Single-Payer Health Care Failings on Newell Normand
Fox News and Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
January 21, 2020
Sally C. Pipes joins Newell Normand to breakdown the failings of other single-payer nations like Canada and the United States on WWL AM 870 in New Orleans. As Democrat presidential candidates continue to support single-payer health care proposals, other countries offer stark lessons for embracing the government run health model.
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Wayne Winegarden Drug Pricing Study Profiled in Healthcare Finance News
Healthcare Finance News | Jeff Lagasse
January 23, 2020
Many proposals have been made when it comes to lowering costs, both from the government and the private sector. Utilization of telehealth technology has been shown to reduce certain costs, for example, while population health initiatives have the potential to trim costs by encouraging, and enabling, healthier lifestyles among the U.S. population. But the pharmaceutical and drug supply chain is a different beast. According to Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation and author of the brief, an interventionist approach from the government is likely the wrong tack.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
National School Choice Week Event: The State of School Choice in California in 2020
As California celebrates National School Choice Week, the future of charter schools is uncertain following legislation enacted in 2019. Join Pacific Research Institute Senior Director of Education Studies Lance Izumi as he leads a panel of education reform experts at the State Capitol in discussing the impact of last year’s legislative changes, 2020 legislative efforts that could impact school choice, and reform ideas to
preserve and expand school choice options for students and parents. This event is free and a lunch will be provided, but please RSVP as space is limited.
Featured Speakers:
Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education
Larry Sand, President, California Teachers Empowerment Network
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, Vice-Chair, Assembly Education Committee
Friday, January 31, 2020
State Capitol, Room 125
Sacramento
12 - 1 p.m.
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2020 California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
Join us for PRI’s second annual California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference and hear policy experts, opinion leaders, and real life changemakers at informative panel discussions on California power outages, barriers to entrepreneurship, school choice, and homelessness.
Also, an evening reception celebrating the publication of False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All by Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy will be held.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
Capitol View Room (15th Floor)
1209 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
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Young Leaders Circle: How Entrepreneurship Can Bring Low-Income Entrepreneurs Out of Poverty with Dr. Wayne Winegarden
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.”
Thursday, February 20, 2020
6 p.m. Happy Hour Begins
6:45 p.m. Moderated Interview Begins
University Club
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
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