Commentary
Commentary
We Need Reciprocity Of Drug Approvals To Address Critical Drug Shortages
By Henry I. Miller and John J. Cohrssen Published in Issues and Insights We hear a lot about rising drug prices, but largely ignored is a far more acute and worrisome problem: widespread shortages of critical medications, many of which are essential in medical practice. University of Chicago researchers last ...
Commentary
FDA must do more to protect consumers from ‘outright fraud’ of dietary supplements
By Henry I. Miller and Josh Bloom Published in Genetic Literacy Project Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also takes supplements. The estimated ...
Commentary
California’s ‘free’ health care for illegal immigrants — courtesy of the taxpayers
On Thursday, June 13, California lawmakers approved a $215 billion state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign. Included in the budget are several health care reforms whose mammoth cost the state may soon regret. Paramount among them is the expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program to cover low-income undocumented ...
California
Emergency financial lifelines at risk of disappearing in California
Imagine, somewhere in the Inland Empire, a young couple with two children just getting by financially. One morning the husband’s car won’t start. If he doesn’t get to work, he’ll lose his job. But the next payday is nearly a week off and the family doesn’t have money for repairs. ...
California
All Signs Point to Crime Making a Comeback in California
California was once known for being tough on criminals. We’re not talking about frontier days, but much more recently. It was only five years ago when the Washington Post’s Max Ehrenfreund wrote that “California’s criminal justice system has long been among the most punitive.” At one time, Newsweek said, the state’s three-strikes ...
Commentary
How socialist price controls will harm American patients
The Trump administration is planning to propose one of the biggest changes to Medicare in decades. The draft rule aims to reduce government spending by linking Medicare drug reimbursement rates to the rates in more than a dozen other Western countries that use price controls to hold down pharmaceutical spending. If implemented, ...
Commentary
Single-payer healthcare is a bust for baby boomers
Like the United States, Canada is aging rapidly. By 2021, my native land will have more seniors than children under 14 for the first time in its history. It’s no wonder nearly 9 in 10 Canadians are worried about the growing number of seniors who will need more healthcare, according ...
Commentary
Breaking Down the Alexander-Murray Senate Health Reform Plan
Late last month, Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., released bipartisan health reform legislation. The package isn’t perfect. But it does include some positive elements—including measures to improve price transparency, ban anti-competitive practices, and boost vaccination rates. Consider how the draft legislation would tackle the excesses of pharmacy benefit ...
California
Kamala’s Promise to End Right-to-Work Would Make Every State Like California
Democratic presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris has said that if she’s elected, she would issue an executive order to rescind hard-won worker freedom. Maybe it’s a “California value” to support conscripted unionism. But before Harris’ position becomes too hardened to walk back, she should consider how reforms would ...
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi Writes About Importance of Charter Schools in TeachThought
While most traditional public schools continue to adhere to a one-size-fits-all model of curriculum, instruction, and learning, sometimes dubbed the ‘McDonaldization’ of education, public charter schools have the flexibility to implement more individualized learning models that promote curiosity, inquiry, and critical thinking. In a recent article, Terry Heick observed, “in education as ...
We Need Reciprocity Of Drug Approvals To Address Critical Drug Shortages
By Henry I. Miller and John J. Cohrssen Published in Issues and Insights We hear a lot about rising drug prices, but largely ignored is a far more acute and worrisome problem: widespread shortages of critical medications, many of which are essential in medical practice. University of Chicago researchers last ...
FDA must do more to protect consumers from ‘outright fraud’ of dietary supplements
By Henry I. Miller and Josh Bloom Published in Genetic Literacy Project Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also takes supplements. The estimated ...
California’s ‘free’ health care for illegal immigrants — courtesy of the taxpayers
On Thursday, June 13, California lawmakers approved a $215 billion state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign. Included in the budget are several health care reforms whose mammoth cost the state may soon regret. Paramount among them is the expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program to cover low-income undocumented ...
Emergency financial lifelines at risk of disappearing in California
Imagine, somewhere in the Inland Empire, a young couple with two children just getting by financially. One morning the husband’s car won’t start. If he doesn’t get to work, he’ll lose his job. But the next payday is nearly a week off and the family doesn’t have money for repairs. ...
All Signs Point to Crime Making a Comeback in California
California was once known for being tough on criminals. We’re not talking about frontier days, but much more recently. It was only five years ago when the Washington Post’s Max Ehrenfreund wrote that “California’s criminal justice system has long been among the most punitive.” At one time, Newsweek said, the state’s three-strikes ...
How socialist price controls will harm American patients
The Trump administration is planning to propose one of the biggest changes to Medicare in decades. The draft rule aims to reduce government spending by linking Medicare drug reimbursement rates to the rates in more than a dozen other Western countries that use price controls to hold down pharmaceutical spending. If implemented, ...
Single-payer healthcare is a bust for baby boomers
Like the United States, Canada is aging rapidly. By 2021, my native land will have more seniors than children under 14 for the first time in its history. It’s no wonder nearly 9 in 10 Canadians are worried about the growing number of seniors who will need more healthcare, according ...
Breaking Down the Alexander-Murray Senate Health Reform Plan
Late last month, Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., released bipartisan health reform legislation. The package isn’t perfect. But it does include some positive elements—including measures to improve price transparency, ban anti-competitive practices, and boost vaccination rates. Consider how the draft legislation would tackle the excesses of pharmacy benefit ...
Kamala’s Promise to End Right-to-Work Would Make Every State Like California
Democratic presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris has said that if she’s elected, she would issue an executive order to rescind hard-won worker freedom. Maybe it’s a “California value” to support conscripted unionism. But before Harris’ position becomes too hardened to walk back, she should consider how reforms would ...
Lance Izumi Writes About Importance of Charter Schools in TeachThought
While most traditional public schools continue to adhere to a one-size-fits-all model of curriculum, instruction, and learning, sometimes dubbed the ‘McDonaldization’ of education, public charter schools have the flexibility to implement more individualized learning models that promote curiosity, inquiry, and critical thinking. In a recent article, Terry Heick observed, “in education as ...
