Health Care Blog

California Entering Pharmaceutical Business Won’t Lower Drug Prices for Patients

September 09, 2020

The state of California, which can’t keep the lights on thanks to political interference in energy generation, nor build enough homes because government has poisoned the housing market, is going into the pharmaceutical manufacturing business. But there’s nothing to worry about. If it struggles, taxpayers...

June Single Payer Poll Watch: Support Continues to Tick Upward

June 03, 2020

Healthcare

Support for Medicare for All continues to rise in PRI’s Single-Payer Poll Watch. The June update shows the overall average support at 57 percent, while opposition slightly dropped to 34 percent. Last month’s update showed a ten-point jump in support during the height of shelter-in-place orders...

Single Payer Poll Watch: Coronavirus Leads to Spike in Support

April 29, 2020

Healthcare

The coronavirus pandemic has put public health top of mind for a majority of Americans, despite the overwhelming concern about how the U.S. economy will survive in the coming weeks. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, the political and public policy debate is set for...

COVID-19 Reminds Us That Both Innovation and Affordability Are Needed

April 21, 2020

Healthcare

In her March 25 Forbes editorial, Sally Pipes documented how the private sector is rising to the health challenges of the coronavirus. Whether it is Moderna launching clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine or Gilead Sciences investigating whether one of its medicines, Remdesivir, is effective...

Single Payer Poll Watch: Coronavirus Update

March 30, 2020

Healthcare

Coronavirus is impacting everything and anything it touches. In the March PRI Single Payer Poll Watch, average opposition to a single payer plan overtook support, continuing the trend of growing opposition to a single payer health care plan PRI noticed in our first poll watch...

Single-Payer Poll Watch Update: Sanders Rises, As Average Support Falls, Confusion Increases for Single-Payer Health Care

February 27, 2020

Healthcare

One would think that the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to the top of the Democrat presidential nomination list equals growing enthusiasm for the Medicare for All plan he champions. But Sanders’ rise to frontrunner status isn’t doing much to boost the lukewarm attitudes...

Single-Payer Poll Watch: Single-Payer Support and Opposition Even, Iowa Caucusgoers Rate Health Care Top Issue

February 05, 2020

Healthcare

One of the first national health care polls of 2020 shows the continued lukewarm support for a national single-payer health care plan. Adding the January 2020 Kaiser survey to the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) Single-Payer Poll Watch brings the average support and opposition for single-payer...

Newsom’s ‘Bold’ Plan on Prescription Drugs Won’t Really Help Patients, Lower Drug Costs

January 27, 2020

In a state where the private sector continues to be marginalized in favor of more government, Gov. Gavin Newsom has plans for California to set up a generic drug label of its own. It would be the first state in the country to go into...

Single Payer Health Care Support Stagnate in Single-Payer Poll Watch 2020 Update

January 16, 2020

Healthcare

Last month, Pacific Research Institute launched the “Single-Payer Poll Watch” to keep an eye on the latest public opinion around single-payer healthcare. Much like RealClearPolitics, the poll watch compiles questions from national polls on single-payer health care and calculates the average of the four most...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug Price Increases

January 08, 2020

Healthcare

As each new year begins, the increases in the list prices of drugs are announced. And, following these announcements, the political class complains that something must be done. This year, following the price announcements, Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted “Enough is enough” while Senator Grassley emphasized...