How The Republican House Can Prevent Medicare Price Controls From Becoming Death Sentences
 
Issues & Insights | Sally Pipes
March 14, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug pricing provisions will severely curtail life-science research.

The IRA vests the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the power to impose price controls on an ever-expanding list of drugs. The direct result will be that seniors today — as well as future generations of patients — will lose out on access to life-saving cures because those treatments will never be developed.


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Bernie Doesn't "Get" Healthcare Innovation
 
Forbes | Sally Pipes
March 16, 2023

His arguments are ignorant of basic economics. Incentives matter. The possibility of future profit is what draws investors and companies into pharmaceutical research in the first place. If lawmakers effectively criminalize profit, then biomedical research and development will grind to a halt—and society won’t have innovative medicines for Sen. Sanders to demagogue about.


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Time to drag hospital pricing out of the shadows
 
The Tennessean | Sally Pipes
March 15, 2023

It’s been more than two years since a rule promulgated during the Trump administration requiring hospitals to disclose their prices took effect. Yet according to a new study, most hospitals aren’t complying.

The analysis, published in January in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that just 19% of hospitals examined fully comply with the rule.


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Britain Desperately Needs More Private Healthcare Options
 
Townhall | Sally Pipes
March 14, 2023

Consultants at the British Medical Association are threatening to go on strike, citing pay cuts.

They’d be joining a months-long series of walkouts by British medical staffers. Nurses with the country’s government-run National Health Service took to the picket lines in mid-December, January, and February. And while the British government plans to discuss pay-raises, a strike by junior doctors began this week. Meanwhile, record wait times are preventing British patients from accessing the care they need.


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