Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” ...
06 April, 2021
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) promotes itself as “the nation’s drug pricing watchdog.” However, as documented in the first of a series of PRI reports, ICER’s cost-effectiveness analyses contain inappropria...
05 April, 2021
PRI’s health care experts discuss free market health care policy changes that should be made permanent following the pandemic and the latest developments on the Covid-19 vaccine. ShareTweetPinShare...
12 February, 2021A commonly-used analysis to determine a medicine’s value is based on flawed methodologies that would diminish innovation and access, finds a new report released today by the nonpartisan Center for Medical Economics and Innovation ...
17 March, 2021Tearing down drug “rebate walls” that increase patient costs and block access to cheaper and often more effective medications would increase competition, lower out-of-pocket costs, and improve health outcomes, finds a new brief re...
09 December, 2020A new brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute shows that counterfeit drugs put patients in harm’s way, hinder drug innovation, and lead to job losses. P...
13 October, 2020Listen to Sally C. Pipes, PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy, discuss the plan proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to lower the Medicare eligibility age on “The John Carlson Show” on KVI R...
16 April, 2021
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” ...
06 April, 2021Sally C. Pipes joins Just the News with Sophie Mann to discuss the changes in healthcare policy being pursued by the Biden administration. Pipes argues that the goal of these proposals is to implement a public option and bring the...
23 March, 2021
Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss President Biden’s push for a so-called “public option” with host Emma Rechenberg on “National Report” ...
06 April, 2021Americans for Prosperity Releasing ‘Personal Option’ Health-Care Model at Odds with Dr. Big Brother By Jack Fowler With Senate Democrats ready to spring a health-care public-option bill in the coming weeks, while House Democrats a...
24 March, 2021Not that any of us needed additional reminders, but Californians in the past year have seen the stark limits of government power as state bureaucracies mishandle their most fundamental responsibilities. We’re all still reeling fro...
28 February, 2021
Commentary
Private practices just became an endangered species
Last year was the first year in which physicians working in private practice accounted for fewer than half of all practicing doctors, according to a new new report from the American Medical Association. Many of these formerly inde...
14 May, 2021Biden’s Intellectual Property Waiver Puts Political Symbolism Before Saving Lives
President Biden recently backed a World Trade Organization proposal to waive intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines and therapies — a move the Trump administration rejected just a few months ago. The White Ho...
12 May, 2021Government-Sponsored Health Care Roundup: Where The States Stand.
Colorado lawmakers just nixed a bill that would’ve led to the creation of a state-level public health insurance option. Hospitals and doctors argued that their revenues would plummet if a state-run health plan hit the market...
10 May, 2021