New Study: Medicare’s Price Controls Are Fueling America’s Growing Doctor Shortage
The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation today released a new issue brief warning that continued federal underpayment of doctors is fueling a looming healthcare crisis by accelerating the nation’s physician shortage and undermining access to care. Written by PRI senior fellow in business and economics and CMEI director Dr. Wayne Winegarden, the brief (titled “It’s Time for Medicare to Stop Shortchanging Physicians”) finds that Medicare reimbursement rates are well below market ...
Read the new book from Sally Pipes “The World’s Medicine Chest”
Just released from PRI – read The World’s Medicine Chest, the latest book from PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy. <The World’s Medicine Chest explores how America became the world’s leader in biopharmaceutical innovation through market capitalism. Click here to register to watch a special live webinar with Pipes on Wednesday, February 26 at 11 AM Pacific time, discussing her new book in conversation with PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden. In ...
GOP must hold its ground on enhanced subsidies — now more than ever
There are many things to like about the deal that ended the government shutdown last week. Most importantly, it reopens the government without committing taxpayers to tens of billions of dollars in new spending on COVID-era enhanced premium subsidies for coverage sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. But the battle over these subsidies is far from over. Republican leaders have promised Democrats a vote in early December on whether to extend those tax credits. The GOP must ...
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