Supply Chain

Commentary

At the ‘Pharmer’s’ Market, Patients Suffer While Middlemen Profit

Imagine a visit to the local farmer’s market. When you’re about to pay the farmer for some fruit, a man in a suit and sunglasses interrupts the exchange and offers to negotiate a discount with the farmer. Cool, right? Not so fast. The man in the suit didn’t tell you ...
Commentary

Drug discount program padding hospital profits

Improving vulnerable populations’ access to medicines is clearly important. But something is amiss when a program that is supposed to improve access to healthcare has turned into a cash cow for hospitals. Yet, that is what has happened to the obscure 340B drug discount program. Too many hospitals across Massachusetts ...
Commentary

What cereal can teach us about the generic drug market

Imagine you’re walking the aisles of your local supermarket, on the hunt for your favorite cereal. You usually purchase the generic version, since it tastes nearly the same and is much cheaper than the name-brand version. But today, you notice that the price of the name-brand cereal is just a ...
Agriculture

Farmers and Ranchers – The Unsung Heroes of 2021

What do evergreen trees, ham, turkey, eggnog, and champagne all have in common? The holidays, yes, but also America’s agriculture — most notably the great agricultural states of the West. Let’s start with Thanksgiving dinner.  Our colleague Pam Lewison of the Washington Policy Center, and a farmer herself, recalls growing ...
California

Reform Misguided Laws, Don’t Raise Minimum Wage, to Address California’s High Cost of Living

California isn’t yet finished hiking the minimum wage from the last bill that increased it to $15 an hour starting in 2023 for all businesses, and now comes another proposal to move it to $18. Imagine the response from companies struggling to keep up with current payrolls when they hear ...
Commentary

Comprehensive Regulatory Reform From The Bottom Up: The Case Of 340B

Using the ruse of “price negotiation”, the proponents of the Build Back Better legislation are pushing an ill-fated drug price control plan. Patients will bear exceptionally large costs should their idea of government-directed prices become law. These costs will include lower health outcomes due to reduced access to innovative drugs. ...
Blog

PRI’s 2021 Holiday Book List

Right by the Bay is proud to present our annual tradition – PRI’s 2021 holiday book list.  Each year, we offer suggestions for the booklover on your holiday shopping list.  This year’s selections include fiction, classics, books on history and sports, and books that will make you think.   With ...
Agriculture

What the California Legislature Told Us About Supply Chain Backlog

The California State Legislature’s Assembly Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement hearing recently gave us a 240-minute summary of where things stand with the supply chain backlog in California. It provided insight from executives at the port authority, agriculture, retail, and economy and highlighted the tremendous backlog to California ...
Blog

Inflation, Drug Price Controls, and President Biden’s Build Back Better Program

Inflation is worrying Americans, and for good reason. The latest inflation report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released on November 10th, showed that prices were 6.2 percent higher in October 2021 compared to October 2020. More troubling, this was the fifth month in a row where the annual growth in ...
Blog

How California Laws are Stealing Christmas

We’ve all heard about it by now – the supply chain crisis and the bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  Last month, the “dwell time” – the time a container stays on a terminal between unloading from a ship and removal by a truck was six ...
Commentary

At the ‘Pharmer’s’ Market, Patients Suffer While Middlemen Profit

Imagine a visit to the local farmer’s market. When you’re about to pay the farmer for some fruit, a man in a suit and sunglasses interrupts the exchange and offers to negotiate a discount with the farmer. Cool, right? Not so fast. The man in the suit didn’t tell you ...
Commentary

Drug discount program padding hospital profits

Improving vulnerable populations’ access to medicines is clearly important. But something is amiss when a program that is supposed to improve access to healthcare has turned into a cash cow for hospitals. Yet, that is what has happened to the obscure 340B drug discount program. Too many hospitals across Massachusetts ...
Commentary

What cereal can teach us about the generic drug market

Imagine you’re walking the aisles of your local supermarket, on the hunt for your favorite cereal. You usually purchase the generic version, since it tastes nearly the same and is much cheaper than the name-brand version. But today, you notice that the price of the name-brand cereal is just a ...
Agriculture

Farmers and Ranchers – The Unsung Heroes of 2021

What do evergreen trees, ham, turkey, eggnog, and champagne all have in common? The holidays, yes, but also America’s agriculture — most notably the great agricultural states of the West. Let’s start with Thanksgiving dinner.  Our colleague Pam Lewison of the Washington Policy Center, and a farmer herself, recalls growing ...
California

Reform Misguided Laws, Don’t Raise Minimum Wage, to Address California’s High Cost of Living

California isn’t yet finished hiking the minimum wage from the last bill that increased it to $15 an hour starting in 2023 for all businesses, and now comes another proposal to move it to $18. Imagine the response from companies struggling to keep up with current payrolls when they hear ...
Commentary

Comprehensive Regulatory Reform From The Bottom Up: The Case Of 340B

Using the ruse of “price negotiation”, the proponents of the Build Back Better legislation are pushing an ill-fated drug price control plan. Patients will bear exceptionally large costs should their idea of government-directed prices become law. These costs will include lower health outcomes due to reduced access to innovative drugs. ...
Blog

PRI’s 2021 Holiday Book List

Right by the Bay is proud to present our annual tradition – PRI’s 2021 holiday book list.  Each year, we offer suggestions for the booklover on your holiday shopping list.  This year’s selections include fiction, classics, books on history and sports, and books that will make you think.   With ...
Agriculture

What the California Legislature Told Us About Supply Chain Backlog

The California State Legislature’s Assembly Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement hearing recently gave us a 240-minute summary of where things stand with the supply chain backlog in California. It provided insight from executives at the port authority, agriculture, retail, and economy and highlighted the tremendous backlog to California ...
Blog

Inflation, Drug Price Controls, and President Biden’s Build Back Better Program

Inflation is worrying Americans, and for good reason. The latest inflation report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released on November 10th, showed that prices were 6.2 percent higher in October 2021 compared to October 2020. More troubling, this was the fifth month in a row where the annual growth in ...
Blog

How California Laws are Stealing Christmas

We’ve all heard about it by now – the supply chain crisis and the bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  Last month, the “dwell time” – the time a container stays on a terminal between unloading from a ship and removal by a truck was six ...
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