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Special Edition: Medical Progress Today's Summer Reading List
PRI in the News
7.28.2006
Medical Progress Today invites you to indulge in some summer reading that we think best explains the promises and pitfalls of modern health care. We have invited leading health care policy experts to suggest their favorite books and articles that address the modern health care system.
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Tea Leaves
PRI in the News
By: Grace-Marie Turner
7.27.2006
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Arnold Bankrolls Opposition Research on Himself
PRI in the News
By: Jason L. Riley
7.24.2006
California is facing a $4 billion budget deficit, so you might reasonably assume that the state can't afford the luxury of funding think tanks for wealthy special interest groups. Yet the budget signed late last month by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger includes $6 million for something called the Labor Institute, a pro-union public policy research outfit housed at the University of California. In doing so, Arnold reversed his previous position, suggesting a heavy whiff of election-year politics.
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Free Market Approaches to Medicaid Urged at ALEC Conference
PRI in the News
7.24.2006
States faced with a funding shortfall under Medicaid – and almost half the states are expected to declare some kind of shortfall this year – will only stem the tide of red ink by taking more control of the design of their own programs, a panel of health care experts told attendees at the American Legislative Exchange Council in San Francisco.
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The Hippies Behind the Youth Movement
Technology Op-Ed
7.21.2006
As the country gears up for the November elections and online communities start to buzz, it's instructive to look back at the way image myths were created, even with the openness of the Internet. The Howard Dean campaign is one example.
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New Book Addresses What States Can Do To Reform Health Care
Press Release
7.20.2006
SAN FRANCISCO –As 46 states begin their fiscal year this month, health care will prove to be one of the most costly expenditures. Medicaid spending alone is predicted to reach $320 billion this year. These dramatically rising health care costs should force state policymakers to lay the groundwork for meaningful and lasting reform according to health care expert John R. Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute and editor of the new book, What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer (available at www.pacificresearch.org or Amazon.com).
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Medicare drug pricing
Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.20.2006
The July 6 editorial "Higher drug prices: Medicare Part D fails seniors" argues that seniors would be better off with Medicare negotiating drug prices, just as the Department of Veterans Affairs does.
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Drug companies' risk-taking saves lives
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.18.2006
In a July 11 article, Marcia Angell claims that drug companies are "exploiting the desperation of people with a life-threatening illness" ("Prices soar for cancer drugs," News). That's utter nonsense. Avastin would not be in existence today if Genentech Inc. had not invented it.
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Letters Respond to USA Today Article on High Price of New Cancer Medications
Kaiser Network News Clipping
7.17.2006
Two letters to the editor of USA Today on Tuesday responded to an article published on July 11 that examined how the high prices of new cancer medications -- as much as $10,000 monthly for one treatment -- have raised concerns among patients and health insurers. Summaries of the letters appear below.
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Undercurrents: What Did Ward Accomplish in the Oakland Schools?
PRI in the News
By: J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
7.14.2006
As far back as the spring of 2005, when State Superintendent Jack O’Connell was forced to come to Oakland Technical High School and release his legally required but long-delayed Fiscal Recovery Plan for the Oakland Unified School District, a group of Oakland educators and activists—led by Board of Trustees President Gary Yee—had been saying that the legal requirements had either been met or were close to being met for a return to local control of the Oakland schools
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Kangaroo Court in Brussels
Technology Op-Ed
7.14.2006
This week, European Commission (EC) regulators fined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) 280.5 million euros (US$356 million), adding to the 497 million euros ($630.7 million) the company has already been forced to pay.
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Dreaming by the Bay: Why local politicians should stay out of the health insurance business
Medical Progress Today Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.14.2006
The push for mandate driven universal health insurance has taken center stage in the policy arena. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has achieved near celebrity status with his plan to require individuals to purchase insurance or face fines. The American Medical Association voted at its June meeting to endorse a nationwide mandate on individuals to purchase health insurance. And my city may soon make national news if its mayor is successful in implementing a plan promising to provide universal coverage for San Francisco residents.
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Muzzle the Bar?
PRI in the News
7.13.2006
NEW YORK - With all the problems plaguing New York's tort system, one would think lawyers and judges would have their hands full tackling weightier issues than lawyer advertising. One would think wrong.
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The Cost of a Caring Leviathan: The FDA at 100
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
7.3.2006
The power of the state has increased tremendously over the last century, and its expansion has faced the least resistance in food and drug regulation. How remarkable that a novel, rather than science, launched this overwhelming bureaucracy. In 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which described appalling conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry, caused President Theodore Roosevelt to establish the Food and Drug Administration that same year. The 1906 law effectively created a specialized police force.
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Prescription Piracy: The Black Market in Foreign Drugs Will Not Reduce U.S. Health Care Costs
PRI in the News
7.1.2006
As 46 states begin their fiscal year this month, health care will prove to be one of the most costly expenditures. Medicaid spending alone is predicted to reach $320 billion this year. These dramatically rising health care costs should force state policymakers to lay the groundwork for meaningful and lasting reform according to health care expert John R. Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute and editor of the new book, What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer.
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