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What We’re Watching – September 18

Tim Anaya – Making the Entire Health Care System More Affordable In the final episode in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, the Professor and Pete visit the City of Free Enterprise and learn that reforms to make the entire health care system more affordable are critical to making ...
Environment

PRI Says Government Can’t Play Venture Capitalist in Union Tribune Story on Hydrogen Fuel

Title: More stations for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles lined up for San Diego By: Rob Nikolewski For nearly four years, there has been just one fueling station in the San Diego area for the few owners of hydrogen cell vehicles to fill up their cars. But the California Energy Commission ...
Climate Change

Kenneth Green – Energy and the Environment

Kenneth Green, Ph.D., PRI Senior Fellow in Environment, discusses the recent California wildfires, the state’s climate change policies, what he thinks about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s environmental agenda, as well as Pres. Trump’s performance on energy and environmental issues.
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What We’re Watching – Remembering 9/11

Rowena Itchon – A Virtual Tour of the 9/11 Memorial Tim Anaya – Annual 9/11 Reading of the Names of the World Trade Center Victims Ben Smithwick – A 9/11 Survivor’s Story Brian Clark shares the story of his escape from the South Tower of the World Trade Center and ...
Health Care

Wayne Winegarden – Surprise Medical Billing

If you’ve ever had a medical procedure and received a large bill from your hospital because, unknown to you, one of your doctors was not in your insurance network – that’s the subject of this podcast. PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden discusses his recently released study on “Surprise Medical Billing.” ...
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What We’re Watching – Labor Day Weekend Edition

Kerry Jackson – Beware of the “Fact Checkers” So who is fact checking the fact checkers? Someone needs to because “all too often they fail to get even basic facts correct,” says Jim Agresti, president of Just Facts. Ben Smithwick – Charter School City Douglas Harris, a professor at Tulane ...
Health Care

PRI Medical Billing Study Featured in Northern California Record

Title: AB 72 brief analyzes impact of medical billing reform law that’s had bad consequences for patients and practitioners By Sarah Downey, Northern California Record A new policy brief about the impact of California AB 72 finds that the law – designed to alleviate surprise medical billing – while well-intentioned ...
Podcast

Former Speechwriters Take on the Republican National Convention

PRI’s former speechwriters (Rowena Itchon, Lance Izumi and Tim Anaya) review the 2020 Republican National Convention.  They discuss how the convention dealt with outside events taking over the headlines, analyze the party’s use of real people versus big names, and weigh in on whether the Democrats or Republicans had a ...
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What We’re Watching – August 28

Ben Smithwick – Helping Citizens Understand a World without Fossil Fuels Ronald Stein, co-author of the new book Just GREEN Electricity – Helping Citizens Understand a World without Fossil Fuels, discusses the dangers of overreliance on renewable energy. Click here to watch the video Tim Anaya – Making Biosimilars and ...
Health Care

Watch Sally Pipes in Soho Forum Debate – Should the Government Provide Health Insurance to All Americans?

Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debate the question, “Should the Government Provide Health Insurance to All Americans?” in a recent debate hosted by the Soho Forum. She debates Professor Gerald Friedman of the University of Massachusetts, whose study on ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – September 18

Tim Anaya – Making the Entire Health Care System More Affordable In the final episode in PRI’s “Escape the Drug Pricing Maze” series, the Professor and Pete visit the City of Free Enterprise and learn that reforms to make the entire health care system more affordable are critical to making ...
Environment

PRI Says Government Can’t Play Venture Capitalist in Union Tribune Story on Hydrogen Fuel

Title: More stations for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles lined up for San Diego By: Rob Nikolewski For nearly four years, there has been just one fueling station in the San Diego area for the few owners of hydrogen cell vehicles to fill up their cars. But the California Energy Commission ...
Climate Change

Kenneth Green – Energy and the Environment

Kenneth Green, Ph.D., PRI Senior Fellow in Environment, discusses the recent California wildfires, the state’s climate change policies, what he thinks about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s environmental agenda, as well as Pres. Trump’s performance on energy and environmental issues.
Blog

What We’re Watching – Remembering 9/11

Rowena Itchon – A Virtual Tour of the 9/11 Memorial Tim Anaya – Annual 9/11 Reading of the Names of the World Trade Center Victims Ben Smithwick – A 9/11 Survivor’s Story Brian Clark shares the story of his escape from the South Tower of the World Trade Center and ...
Health Care

Wayne Winegarden – Surprise Medical Billing

If you’ve ever had a medical procedure and received a large bill from your hospital because, unknown to you, one of your doctors was not in your insurance network – that’s the subject of this podcast. PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden discusses his recently released study on “Surprise Medical Billing.” ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Labor Day Weekend Edition

Kerry Jackson – Beware of the “Fact Checkers” So who is fact checking the fact checkers? Someone needs to because “all too often they fail to get even basic facts correct,” says Jim Agresti, president of Just Facts. Ben Smithwick – Charter School City Douglas Harris, a professor at Tulane ...
Health Care

PRI Medical Billing Study Featured in Northern California Record

Title: AB 72 brief analyzes impact of medical billing reform law that’s had bad consequences for patients and practitioners By Sarah Downey, Northern California Record A new policy brief about the impact of California AB 72 finds that the law – designed to alleviate surprise medical billing – while well-intentioned ...
Podcast

Former Speechwriters Take on the Republican National Convention

PRI’s former speechwriters (Rowena Itchon, Lance Izumi and Tim Anaya) review the 2020 Republican National Convention.  They discuss how the convention dealt with outside events taking over the headlines, analyze the party’s use of real people versus big names, and weigh in on whether the Democrats or Republicans had a ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – August 28

Ben Smithwick – Helping Citizens Understand a World without Fossil Fuels Ronald Stein, co-author of the new book Just GREEN Electricity – Helping Citizens Understand a World without Fossil Fuels, discusses the dangers of overreliance on renewable energy. Click here to watch the video Tim Anaya – Making Biosimilars and ...
Health Care

Watch Sally Pipes in Soho Forum Debate – Should the Government Provide Health Insurance to All Americans?

Watch PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes debate the question, “Should the Government Provide Health Insurance to All Americans?” in a recent debate hosted by the Soho Forum. She debates Professor Gerald Friedman of the University of Massachusetts, whose study on ...
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