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PRI President Sally Pipes to Speak at the Commonwealth Club of California
Submitted on 2.22.2005
SAN FRANCISCO – On Wednesday, February 23, at 6:00 p.m., Pacific Research Institute president Sally C. Pipes will speak on her new book, Miracle Cure: How To Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer, at the Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA.
Pharmaceutical Importation, Price Controls, Federal Price Negotiations, and the Interests of Consumers
Submitted by Benjamin Zycher on 2.17.2005
The true economic cost of pharmaceuticals---that is, the real resource cost to the economy of developing and producing them---cannot be reduced without improvements in the economic and regulatory environment, a broad set of issues outside the scope of today’s hearing.
A limited solution for a limited problem. California’s program for affordable prescription drugs.
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 2.10.2005
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on one of the year’s highest profile public policy issues - the affordability of prescription drugs for people with limited means and who lack prescription coverage.
Drug importation is dangerous to public health
Submitted by Peter Pitts on 2.3.2005
Hurray for Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, who, under tremendous political pressure to continue a charade, instead told the truth about the cross-border drug trade and the dangers that it poses to both Americans and Canadians.
Prescription for trouble: Can Nevadans trust imported drugs?
Submitted by Newt Briggs on 2.2.2005
By her own admission, Ethel Nash is a "walking chemical plant." A resident of the Sunrise Senior Village in northern Las Vegas, the spunky 67-year-old takes seven different medications--all of which are paid for by a combination of Senior Dimensions, Medicare and personal savings.
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