Health Care
Commentary
The Obamacare Enrollee Solution
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
Commentary
Obamacare’s Latest Failure: Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare’s defenders have one less leg to stand on, thanks to a new report on the health law’s attempts to reform Medicaid. Obamacare increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid — the healthcare entitlement for low-income Americans — by allowing individuals with annual income at or below 138 percent ...
Commentary
Health Insurer Trickery Straps ER Patients With Huge Bills
Millions of emergency room patients could face financial ruin — even if they deliberately seek care at hospitals covered by their insurers. That’s the disturbing finding of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Conducted by two Yale professors, the study shows that 1 in 5 ...
Business & Economics
Impact Magazine — Winter 2016
Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
Commentary
GOP’s Healthcare Proposals No Cause For Alarm
President-elect Trump recently announced that, while he still plans to repeal Obamacare, he’ll continue to guarantee coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and allow children to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. The first revelation has some insurance companies worried. As they see it, once the individual mandate ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s Subsidies Are No Excuse For High Premiums
The election of Donald Trump — who promised voters that he would if elected “repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare” — has put the future of President Obama’s health law in jeopardy. But “repeal-and-replace” cannot happen until after the inauguration on January 20. And that means that the millions of Americans ...
Health Care
New PRI Study: Free Market Policies Needed To Stop Drug-Resistant Diseases, Encourage New Life-Saving Treatments
SACRAMENTO – Responding to the problem of drug-resistant infections and the decline in the development of new antibiotics, the Pacific Research Institute today released a new study on ways to incentivize the development of new treatments that will effectively address this growing public health crisis. A copy of the study ...
Commentary
Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?
Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
Commentary
VA’s Single-Payer Disease Has No Cure
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ beleaguered health-care system remains on life support, more than two years after President Obama promised to fix it. According to a new federal report on the Phoenix VA, 215 veterans recently died while awaiting consults with specialists at the facility. One patient’s death could have ...
Commentary
Under Trump, Americans Can Finally Put Obamacare Behind Us
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton bodes well for the future of America’s healthcare system. With Obamacare in a full-on “death spiral,” voters were clearly in no mood for Clinton’s plan to “build on” the president’s healthcare law. Instead, they chose a president who has said that his first order ...
The Obamacare Enrollee Solution
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
Obamacare’s Latest Failure: Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare’s defenders have one less leg to stand on, thanks to a new report on the health law’s attempts to reform Medicaid. Obamacare increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid — the healthcare entitlement for low-income Americans — by allowing individuals with annual income at or below 138 percent ...
Health Insurer Trickery Straps ER Patients With Huge Bills
Millions of emergency room patients could face financial ruin — even if they deliberately seek care at hospitals covered by their insurers. That’s the disturbing finding of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Conducted by two Yale professors, the study shows that 1 in 5 ...
Impact Magazine — Winter 2016
Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
GOP’s Healthcare Proposals No Cause For Alarm
President-elect Trump recently announced that, while he still plans to repeal Obamacare, he’ll continue to guarantee coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and allow children to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. The first revelation has some insurance companies worried. As they see it, once the individual mandate ...
Obamacare’s Subsidies Are No Excuse For High Premiums
The election of Donald Trump — who promised voters that he would if elected “repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare” — has put the future of President Obama’s health law in jeopardy. But “repeal-and-replace” cannot happen until after the inauguration on January 20. And that means that the millions of Americans ...
New PRI Study: Free Market Policies Needed To Stop Drug-Resistant Diseases, Encourage New Life-Saving Treatments
SACRAMENTO – Responding to the problem of drug-resistant infections and the decline in the development of new antibiotics, the Pacific Research Institute today released a new study on ways to incentivize the development of new treatments that will effectively address this growing public health crisis. A copy of the study ...
Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?
Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
VA’s Single-Payer Disease Has No Cure
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ beleaguered health-care system remains on life support, more than two years after President Obama promised to fix it. According to a new federal report on the Phoenix VA, 215 veterans recently died while awaiting consults with specialists at the facility. One patient’s death could have ...
Under Trump, Americans Can Finally Put Obamacare Behind Us
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton bodes well for the future of America’s healthcare system. With Obamacare in a full-on “death spiral,” voters were clearly in no mood for Clinton’s plan to “build on” the president’s healthcare law. Instead, they chose a president who has said that his first order ...
