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Pacific Research Institute
Pacific Research Institute 680 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 180 Pasadena, CA 91101
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is a California-based, nonprofit public policy think tank founded in 1979 that promotes free-market policy solutions centered on individual liberty, personal responsibility and limited government. Headquartered in Pasadena with an additional office in Sacramento, the institute conducts research and publishes analysis on health care, education, economics, energy, the environment and California public policy. PRI’s scholars regularly testify before legislative bodies, publish policy studies and contribute commentary to national and regional media outlets.
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- Pacific Research Institute's Wayne Winegarden on 340B Drug Pricing Program's 'Lack of Transparency'
with Wayne Winegarden
In the Health Policy Podcast episode featuring Wayne Winegarden from the Pacific Research Institute, the discussion centers on the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Winegarden critiques the program's lack of transparency and its unintended consequences, which have led to large hospital systems profiting at the expense of smaller institutions and patients. He advocates for reforms, including improved transparency and a shift in funding models to better serve the intended vulnerable populations.
Notable quotes
“340B is the most important drug program that you've never heard of.”
“The program has gone from, you know, less than a billion dollars back then, maybe $7 billion in 2012. Now it's more than $80 billion kind of purchases kind of at the discounted price.”
“We need transparency. I guess that would be a great place to begin.”
“If it's following the patient, that's a great way of kind of changing those incentives so we don't have those kind of activity being encouraged that we really don't want.”
“It was always meant to fund the institutions, and then the institutions would then serve the patients.”
“The more complicated you make the structures, like that game of telephone, the more likely the message gets misread.”