A smarter way to curb drug prices through imports By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and John J. Cohrssen The Trump administration last week announced steps that could lead to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, where p...
05 August, 2019
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss all things health care with Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox News C...
06 May, 2019
Gene therapies have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of millions of Americans living with life-threatening diseases. Watch the video to learn how policy obstacles are standing in the way of making gene therapies a r...
28 March, 2019Biosimilars have the potential to realize billions in savings for the health care system if reforms are enacted to incent their market share to grow, according to a new issue brief issued today by the Center for Medical Economics ...
11 July, 2019Much-Publicized Report on Financial Returns on Cancer Treatments Contains Significant Flaws and Biases, Finds New Center for Medical Economics and Innovation Brief New PRI Brief Finds WHO Report Overstates Returns by 350 Percent...
12 June, 2019
The controversial medical device tax hurts doctors, patients and manufacturers and should be repealed by Congress – according a new study released today by the California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institu...
08 October, 2018Recently, I had a health scare that sent me to the emergency room for a few hours. The care that I received at UC Davis Medical Center was excellent. I drove myself to the emergency room at 6:30 in the morning. Upon registering,...
20 August, 2019SAN FRANCISCO – A new poll from the California-based nonpartisan think tank, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), shows that Americans overwhelmingly support innovative gene therapies, which change the focus of medicine from trea...
26 June, 2019The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee has just released a bi-partisan bill authored by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) that would make health care more affordable and more tran...
29 May, 2019Sally C. Pipes debates against the replacement of private insurance for Medicare for all at Intelligence Squared Debates in New York. Intelligence Squared Debates is non-partisan debate series that brings together experts to discu...
18 September, 2019Freedom & Prosperity Radio’s Joe Thomas talks with Sally C. Pipes about how technology can make rural Americans healthier by embracing telemedicine and telehealth. ...
16 September, 2019Sally C. Pipes joins the Lars Larson Show on KXL to discuss how new regulations will change drug prices in Canada and discourage drug innovation....
12 September, 2019
Commentary
Obamacare Drives Hospital Consolidation, Raising Prices For Patients
Hospital behemoth Sutter Health—a non-profit organization in Northern California that has gradually acquired 24 hospitals and 5,000 physicians—will soon go to court to defend itself against allegations that it has violated the sta...
16 September, 2019Sorry, Bernie Sanders, American health care is not ‘barbaric’ (and Canada’s system isn’t perfect)
The New York Times has detailed how Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to be fixated on Canada’s health care system. That fixation manifested itself again during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. It started with a...
16 September, 2019Medicare’s finances are full of waste
A new report just uncovered millions of dollars in Medicare waste. The report, from the Office of the Inspector General at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, found that the agency paid for some of the same drugs twice...
16 September, 2019