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Healthcare Reform Should Take Aim at Hidden Prices
Effective healthcare reform should address the persistent problem of a system that hides prices, shields middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from accountability, and leaves patients with little real leverage. Reforms can lower healthcare costs by increasing transparency, expanding competition, and reducing the influence of middlemen whose practices operate ...
Commentary
Sorry, but single-payer won’t fix American health care
Affordability is becoming the watchword for Republicans and Democrats alike this election year. Progressives in Senate races from Maine to Illinois to Minnesota are putting Medicare for All at the center of their agenda for making health care affordable. Polling shows that some two-thirds of Americans support the policy. The ...
Commentary
The ‘Medicare-For-All’ Delusion
As Congress looks for ways to bring down the cost of insurance, a growing number of Democrats are pushing to get rid of insurance altogether and make the federal government the sole funder of health care in this country. Several progressive Senate candidates have put Medicare for All at the ...
Commentary
Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
Commentary
Medicare for All remains a disaster proposition
Medicare for All is poised for a comeback. Earlier this month, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, released polling data showing strong support for the idea among Democrats. Jayapal’s renewed push for socialized medicine comes as many Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate are putting ...
Commentary
‘Soak the Rich’ Won’t Rescue Calif. Healthcare
A group of unions in California has proposed a new plan for paying for healthcare — soak the rich. That’s the idea behind the Billionaire Tax Act, a 2026 ballot initiative that would impose a 5% tax on the state’s billionaires in order to raise money for healthcare programs and ...
Drug Prices
NEW BRIEF: New California Medi-Cal Restrictions Will Hurt Patients; Competition Key to Affordable, High-Quality Health Care
SACRAMENTO – As California prepares to restrict access to proven private health insurers for dual eligible Medicare and Medi-Cal patients, the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute – the nonpartisan, California-based, free market think tank – today released a new brief showing that expanding competition—not ...
Commentary
What socialized medicine really looks like
Most younger voters are rooting for a socialist president in the 2028 election, according to a new poll. In addition, more than three-quarters of voters younger than 40 believe that major industries such as health care, energy and Big Tech should be nationalized “to give more control and equity to ...
Drug Innovation
New PRI Brief Warns Trump Drug Price Control Policies Would Lead U.S. Down the Path to European-Style Socialism
SACRAMENTO – The Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute – a nonpartisan, California-based, free market think tank – today released a new issue brief warning that efforts by the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress to embrace and expand the government price controls on ...
Commentary
Let the Message Be Clear: Canadian Healthcare Failed
Meet Mary, a 60-year-old woman from British Columbia. She needed a colonoscopy to confirm her cancer diagnosis. Mary spent four months on a waiting list. Then her bowel ruptured, and she suffered life-threatening sepsis. Due to the delay in treating her cancer, she had to get chemotherapy, which came with ...
Healthcare Reform Should Take Aim at Hidden Prices
Effective healthcare reform should address the persistent problem of a system that hides prices, shields middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from accountability, and leaves patients with little real leverage. Reforms can lower healthcare costs by increasing transparency, expanding competition, and reducing the influence of middlemen whose practices operate ...
Sorry, but single-payer won’t fix American health care
Affordability is becoming the watchword for Republicans and Democrats alike this election year. Progressives in Senate races from Maine to Illinois to Minnesota are putting Medicare for All at the center of their agenda for making health care affordable. Polling shows that some two-thirds of Americans support the policy. The ...
The ‘Medicare-For-All’ Delusion
As Congress looks for ways to bring down the cost of insurance, a growing number of Democrats are pushing to get rid of insurance altogether and make the federal government the sole funder of health care in this country. Several progressive Senate candidates have put Medicare for All at the ...
Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
Medicare for All remains a disaster proposition
Medicare for All is poised for a comeback. Earlier this month, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, released polling data showing strong support for the idea among Democrats. Jayapal’s renewed push for socialized medicine comes as many Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate are putting ...
‘Soak the Rich’ Won’t Rescue Calif. Healthcare
A group of unions in California has proposed a new plan for paying for healthcare — soak the rich. That’s the idea behind the Billionaire Tax Act, a 2026 ballot initiative that would impose a 5% tax on the state’s billionaires in order to raise money for healthcare programs and ...
NEW BRIEF: New California Medi-Cal Restrictions Will Hurt Patients; Competition Key to Affordable, High-Quality Health Care
SACRAMENTO – As California prepares to restrict access to proven private health insurers for dual eligible Medicare and Medi-Cal patients, the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute – the nonpartisan, California-based, free market think tank – today released a new brief showing that expanding competition—not ...
What socialized medicine really looks like
Most younger voters are rooting for a socialist president in the 2028 election, according to a new poll. In addition, more than three-quarters of voters younger than 40 believe that major industries such as health care, energy and Big Tech should be nationalized “to give more control and equity to ...
New PRI Brief Warns Trump Drug Price Control Policies Would Lead U.S. Down the Path to European-Style Socialism
SACRAMENTO – The Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute – a nonpartisan, California-based, free market think tank – today released a new issue brief warning that efforts by the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress to embrace and expand the government price controls on ...
Let the Message Be Clear: Canadian Healthcare Failed
Meet Mary, a 60-year-old woman from British Columbia. She needed a colonoscopy to confirm her cancer diagnosis. Mary spent four months on a waiting list. Then her bowel ruptured, and she suffered life-threatening sepsis. Due to the delay in treating her cancer, she had to get chemotherapy, which came with ...
