Pacific Research Institute
Health Care
Medicare for None
“Medicare for All,” were it subjected to truth in labeling criteria, would more accurately be named “Medicare for None.” This is a point made early in Sally Pipes‘s succinct but detailed analysis of the socialized medicine programs offered by Bernie Sanders and other Democratic POTUS candidates. Her book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous ...
Pacific Research Institute
February 10, 2020
Commentary
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
Pacific Research Institute
February 10, 2020
Podcast
Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated, how the Chinese and U.S. ...
Pacific Research Institute
February 4, 2020
Blog
What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week
Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students. Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 31, 2020
Business & Economics
Regulation stands in the way of entrepreneurship for low-income families
https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Wayne-Winegarden-News.mp3 In October 2019, the Pacific Research Institute released findings of a new report, titled Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity #2 Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream. The report, authored by Wayne Winegarden, contends that “overly complex government regulations are a common cause behind the barriers to low-income entrepreneurship.” ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 30, 2020
California
Adam Andrzejewski – Open the Books
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of Open the Books, an organization dedicated to transparency in government. Open the Books has been at the forefront of holding state government accountable for how it spends taxpayer money. In California, Governor Newsom’s most recent state budget plan proposed $222 billion in General Fund ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 27, 2020
California
Kerry Jackson Questions Ending Cash Bail in Free Beacon
Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s notoriously progressive district attorney, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer support cash bail, becoming the latest law enforcement figure to come out against the practice. . . Kerry Jackson, a fellow at the Pacific Research Institute who has written on public safety issues, told ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 24, 2020
California
Kerry Jackson featured in Free Beacon story on SF Ending Cash Bail
San Francisco D.A. Announces End to Cash Bail By Charles Fain Lehman Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s notoriously progressive district attorney, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer support cash bail, becoming the latest law enforcement figure to come out against the practice. Instead of asking judges to set cash ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 24, 2020
Blog
What We’re Watching – January 24
Tim Anaya – What’s Going on with the Wuhan Flu A growing public health crisis the Wuhan Flu outbreak in China. The first case in the U.S. was just reported in Seattle. Should we be concerned about the growing threat from this coronavirus? PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller recently joined host ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 24, 2020
Energy
Wayne Winegarden in Heartland News Story on CA Solar Roof Mandate
California Solar Home Law Likely to Price Many Out of the Market By Kenneth Artz A new building code in California requires all newly constructed homes statewide to be solar-powered. Tens of thousands of homes will be affected by the first-of-their-kind rules approved in 2018 by the California Energy Commission under Gov. ...
Pacific Research Institute
January 23, 2020
Medicare for None
“Medicare for All,” were it subjected to truth in labeling criteria, would more accurately be named “Medicare for None.” This is a point made early in Sally Pipes‘s succinct but detailed analysis of the socialized medicine programs offered by Bernie Sanders and other Democratic POTUS candidates. Her book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous ...
Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article
Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in office, after ...
Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated, how the Chinese and U.S. ...
What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week
Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students. Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
Regulation stands in the way of entrepreneurship for low-income families
https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Wayne-Winegarden-News.mp3 In October 2019, the Pacific Research Institute released findings of a new report, titled Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity #2 Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream. The report, authored by Wayne Winegarden, contends that “overly complex government regulations are a common cause behind the barriers to low-income entrepreneurship.” ...
Adam Andrzejewski – Open the Books
Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of Open the Books, an organization dedicated to transparency in government. Open the Books has been at the forefront of holding state government accountable for how it spends taxpayer money. In California, Governor Newsom’s most recent state budget plan proposed $222 billion in General Fund ...
Kerry Jackson Questions Ending Cash Bail in Free Beacon
Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s notoriously progressive district attorney, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer support cash bail, becoming the latest law enforcement figure to come out against the practice. . . Kerry Jackson, a fellow at the Pacific Research Institute who has written on public safety issues, told ...
Kerry Jackson featured in Free Beacon story on SF Ending Cash Bail
San Francisco D.A. Announces End to Cash Bail By Charles Fain Lehman Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s notoriously progressive district attorney, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer support cash bail, becoming the latest law enforcement figure to come out against the practice. Instead of asking judges to set cash ...
What We’re Watching – January 24
Tim Anaya – What’s Going on with the Wuhan Flu A growing public health crisis the Wuhan Flu outbreak in China. The first case in the U.S. was just reported in Seattle. Should we be concerned about the growing threat from this coronavirus? PRI’s Dr. Henry Miller recently joined host ...
Wayne Winegarden in Heartland News Story on CA Solar Roof Mandate
California Solar Home Law Likely to Price Many Out of the Market By Kenneth Artz A new building code in California requires all newly constructed homes statewide to be solar-powered. Tens of thousands of homes will be affected by the first-of-their-kind rules approved in 2018 by the California Energy Commission under Gov. ...