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Health Care and the Uninsured
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.30.2004
Now that Washington has promised America's seniors subsidized pills, politicians have turned their focus to the uninsured. The presidential campaign season has produced a flurry of plans to solve, forever, the problem of the uninsured. This isn't going to happen. Short of moving to a totally government-run monopoly health system, the uninsured, like winter in Buffalo, N.Y., will be a much-cursed but intractable fact of life
Border Wars: The Prescription Drug Battle with Canada
Submitted on 1.27.2004
A PRI panel debate regarding the re-importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
Border Wars: The Prescription Drug Battle With Canada - Video
Submitted on 1.27.2004
Video of the Pacific Research Institute debate "Border Wars: The Prescription Drug Battle With Canada" in San Francisco on January 27, 2004
Pharmaceutical economics
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.23.2004
The Jan. 14 article "S.F. joins fight to get drugs from Canada" describes an effort by San Francisco's 11 supervisors to import cheap drugs from Canada. But what they really want is to piggyback on Canadian price controls. This would be a disaster for Canadians and Americans alike.
Bottom Line in U.S. Health Care: Cheap Drugs From Canada Are a Harmful Illusion
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.22.2004
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is the latest to enlist its city in the quest to import prescription drugs from Canada. The supervisors fancy themselves as bold challengers of drug companies and champions of the consumer. But their plan has everything to do with the government and precious little to do with the consumer.
Let Voters Kill Health Care Law
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.16.2004
Your article "Fight over SB 2 continues" (Sacramento Business Journal online news item, Dec. 16) describes an effort by anti-business groups to block a March 2004 referendum on repealing Senate Bill 2. Signed by Gov. Gray Davis several days before he was voted out of office, SB 2 mandates that employers provide healthcare coverage starting in 2006.
Some Choose To Forgo Health Insurance Plans
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.9.2004
Now that Washington has promised America's seniors subsidized pills, politicians have turned their focus to the uninsured. The presidential campaign season has produced a flurry of plans to solve, forever, the problem of the uninsured. This isn't going to happen.
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