How the Biden Administration is Putting Prescription Drug Innovation at Risk (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews, who has spent significant time researching and understanding prescription drug and health care innovation, describes how the Biden administration is abusing the “march in rights” permitted under the Bayh-Dole legislation in order to supposedly reduce prescription drug prices. He then explains how the Biden administration is also in danger of allowing the international TRIPs waiver provisions to further weaken patent protection. IPI Senior Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland relates these issues to the same kinds of tech transfer issues encountered in the tech industry, and IPI President Tom Giovanetti interjects thoughts of questionable value.
Is Texas Falling for the Importation of Drugs from Canada? (Audio: Podcast)
This week HB25, which would create and fund a new agency in Texas that would coordinate the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, sailed through the Texas House of Representatives. IPI President Tom Giovanetti is surprised that this tired and failed idea has caught the eyes of Texas legislators, but IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews has the receipts. Based on his years of research and study of importation, Dr. Matthews explains why this idea is likely a waste of time and effort for the Texas Legislature.
If the Government Cut Medicare Fraud, It Wouldn't Have to Cut Medicare (Audio: Podcast)
IPI’s Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews shares some of his observations and research about how federal entitlement programs like Medicare tolerate rates of fraud that are much higher than fraud rates in the public sector, and if Medicare had been able to prevent $100 billion in fraud PER YEAR, it might not be in the fix it’s in today. And IPI President Tom Giovanetti rants about how you can’t expect private sector level performance from government, since the incentives in government are 180 degrees opposed to the incentives in the private sector. Oh, and “pay and chase” makes an appearance, too.
The Public Health-ization of Policy (Audio: Podcast)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti wonders how the Biden administration knows it can schedule the cancellation of the federal Covid-19 emergency order in May, since that’s now how emergencies work. If you already know when it’s going to be over, it’s not an emergency. This prompts a discussion about the use of emergency orders by executive branch officers at both the state and federal levels to advance policy goals that can’t be achieved through legislation, and the likely need for legislatures to rein in the emergency powers of their executives. With IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Mark Cuban Is Disrupting Health Care, and That's a Good Prescription (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains to IPI President Tom Giovanetti how Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs could provide much needed disruption in the market for generic prescription drugs.
IPI Policy Basics: Who Are the Uninsured? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews talks us through an analysis of the composition of the uninsured population in the United States. IPI President Tom Giovanetti reminds us of the problem of large numbers, and both conclude that the problem of the uninsured is exaggerated or at least overestimated.
If You Like Inflation, You'll Love Obamacare Premiums (Audio: Podcast)
Millions of people in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges face significantly higher premiums for 2023. And they will be hit with that increase right before the mid-term elections in November, which makes Democrats very nervous. IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews and Mark Litow, a former principal of the actuarial firm Milliman, Inc., discuss where Obamacare went wrong and why the program largely failed to meets its main goals.
President Biden is His Own Worst Communications Enemy (Audio: Interview)
Where does President Biden truly stand on the issues of the day? Some accuse him of being far left, while others say he drags his feet. The press has also been blamed for sewing confusion. IPI Resident Scholar Merrill Matthews joins Inside Sources host Boyd Matheson to discuss the real problem with the way the president does and does not communicate his agenda.
IPI's Reactions to the State of the Union Address (Audio: Podcast)
On a special episode recorded the day after President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address, IPI President Tom Giovanetti, Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews, and Director of Development & Events Addie Crimmins discuss the speech, its tone, its connection to political reality, and other various hot takes.
Where Are We with the Covid-19 Pandemic? Is It Even Still a Pandemic? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI’s Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews discusses the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Omicron (and subsequent) variant(s), and why it’s time to start living our lives pretty much like normal again. With IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
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