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Sally Pipes Talks Trump’s Executive Action on Health Care on Air Talk with Larry Mantle

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins host Larry Mantle on “Air Talk” to discuss President Trump’s announcement that he will stop paying subsidies to health insurance companies which help pay medical costs for people who are low-income. Click here to listen to ...
Commentary

Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients

This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Talks President Trump’s Health Care Executive Actions on Lars Larson Show

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses President Trump’s executive action on cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments and to give Americans more affordable health care choices on the nationally-syndicated “Lars Larson Show”. The interview with Sally Pipes begins at the 46:00 mark.
Health Care

Here’s how Trump’s health care order affects California

The executive order on health insurance President Donald Trump signed Thursday seeks to do away with many coverage requirements under Obamacare. Trump’s order directs the departments of Labor, Treasury, Health and Human Services and others to change some of the rules governing health insurance. Those rules are expected to be ...
Business & Economics

Price Controls Will Reduce Innovation and Health Outcomes

Abraham Kaplan famously noted that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” Put differently, solving problems requires the right tool, not the convenient tool. Congress should remember this wisdom in its upcoming deliberations regarding the cost of prescription drugs. The ...
Blog

Gov. Brown’s Rolling Stone Interview is a Must-Read

As much as we have criticized Gov. Jerry Brown, we have to acknowledge that on occasion he will act as the senior statesman of his party, beating back its most mindless impulses. The most recent example: his judicious counsel on single-payer health care. Of course Brown has been a supporter ...
Commentary

With Repeal And Replace On Hold, A New Path Forward For Health Reform

The drive to repeal and replace Obamacare appears dead. The latest attempt to roll it back — a bill authored by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La. — never even got a vote.  And the September 30 deadline for passing a healthcare overhaul with a simple Senate majority under the ...
Business & Economics

Reforming the 340B Program Will Lower the Price of Prescription Drugs

The U.S. health care system needs systemic reforms that comprehensively address the problems of declining quality and rising costs. Alas, beneficial systemic reforms will not be implemented any time soon. There are still opportunities for Congress to implement tailored reforms that can help address these problems in the near term. ...
Blog

A Scientific Basis for the EPA on the Clean Power Plan

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will make official on Tuesday what we knew all along – the Administration is officially withdrawing the controversial Clean Power Plan rule on power plant emissions. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has railed against the repeal of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) claiming that the EPA’s ...
Commentary

Single-Payer Health Care Means You Might Be Denied Surgery for Being Too Fat — No, Really

Do people who are overweight or obese deserve health care? In the United Kingdom’s socialized health care system, the answer appears to be “no.” And if Democrats get their way, the same could be true in the United States. To save money, the U.K. National Health Service recently announced it ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Talks Trump’s Executive Action on Health Care on Air Talk with Larry Mantle

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes joins host Larry Mantle on “Air Talk” to discuss President Trump’s announcement that he will stop paying subsidies to health insurance companies which help pay medical costs for people who are low-income. Click here to listen to ...
Commentary

Trump’s Executive Order Offers Relief to Employers and Patients

This past Thursday President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back a handful of Obamacare’s regulations. Patients and employers should celebrate the move. The administration is taking action where Congress could not to increase the number of health insurance choices available to Americans — and to reduce their cost. ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Talks President Trump’s Health Care Executive Actions on Lars Larson Show

PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discusses President Trump’s executive action on cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments and to give Americans more affordable health care choices on the nationally-syndicated “Lars Larson Show”. The interview with Sally Pipes begins at the 46:00 mark.
Health Care

Here’s how Trump’s health care order affects California

The executive order on health insurance President Donald Trump signed Thursday seeks to do away with many coverage requirements under Obamacare. Trump’s order directs the departments of Labor, Treasury, Health and Human Services and others to change some of the rules governing health insurance. Those rules are expected to be ...
Business & Economics

Price Controls Will Reduce Innovation and Health Outcomes

Abraham Kaplan famously noted that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” Put differently, solving problems requires the right tool, not the convenient tool. Congress should remember this wisdom in its upcoming deliberations regarding the cost of prescription drugs. The ...
Blog

Gov. Brown’s Rolling Stone Interview is a Must-Read

As much as we have criticized Gov. Jerry Brown, we have to acknowledge that on occasion he will act as the senior statesman of his party, beating back its most mindless impulses. The most recent example: his judicious counsel on single-payer health care. Of course Brown has been a supporter ...
Commentary

With Repeal And Replace On Hold, A New Path Forward For Health Reform

The drive to repeal and replace Obamacare appears dead. The latest attempt to roll it back — a bill authored by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La. — never even got a vote.  And the September 30 deadline for passing a healthcare overhaul with a simple Senate majority under the ...
Business & Economics

Reforming the 340B Program Will Lower the Price of Prescription Drugs

The U.S. health care system needs systemic reforms that comprehensively address the problems of declining quality and rising costs. Alas, beneficial systemic reforms will not be implemented any time soon. There are still opportunities for Congress to implement tailored reforms that can help address these problems in the near term. ...
Blog

A Scientific Basis for the EPA on the Clean Power Plan

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will make official on Tuesday what we knew all along – the Administration is officially withdrawing the controversial Clean Power Plan rule on power plant emissions. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has railed against the repeal of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) claiming that the EPA’s ...
Commentary

Single-Payer Health Care Means You Might Be Denied Surgery for Being Too Fat — No, Really

Do people who are overweight or obese deserve health care? In the United Kingdom’s socialized health care system, the answer appears to be “no.” And if Democrats get their way, the same could be true in the United States. To save money, the U.K. National Health Service recently announced it ...
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