Press Release
Drug Pricing
Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Drug Pricing Reform with Scripps National News
Watch Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his recent study showing how a two-part drug pricing system would ensure prices more accurately reflect how patients value drugs with Scripps National News. The report aired on 60 television stations in 42 markets across the ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 24, 2021
Blog
In Bipartisan Vote, U.S. Senate Follows PRI’s Advice in Rejecting ‘Costly Subsidies for the Rich’
You may have missed it amidst the “vote-a-rama” on dozens of amendments to the Senate Democrats’ $3.5 billion budget reconciliation bill being voted on early Wednesday morning, but a key bipartisan vote could put an end to what PRI has termed “costly subsidies for the rich,” or taxpayers subsidizing electric ...
Tim Anaya
August 12, 2021
Education
Watch Lance Izumi Discuss Push to Nix High School Graduation Standards on Newsy
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses the push by states like Oregon to suspend high school graduation standards in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic with host Chance Seales on Newsy TV.
Pacific Research Institute
August 11, 2021
Book
In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California
Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Pacific Research Institute
August 9, 2021
Education
Lance Izumi Discusses Politics in Education on “The Chat”
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the problems with politics in the classroom on “The Chat” on Newschannel 10, KFDA-TV, in Amarillo, TX. Click here to watch the interview
Pacific Research Institute
July 23, 2021
California
Steven Greenhut Joins KFBK Morning News to Talk Drought, Water
Steven Greenhut, author of PRI’s “Winning the Water Wars,” talks about California’s drought, water storage, the policy of “water abundance,” and what’s next for Californians.
Steven Greenhut
July 1, 2021
California
PRI Hails Supreme Court Decision Protecting Free Speech Rights of Americans who Make Donations to Charities
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) today applauded the U.S Supreme Court’s decision upholding the First Amendment rights of all Americans to make donations to the charities they support. The Court struck down as facially unconstitutional the California Attorney General’s compelled disclosure of major donor’s identities—thereby exposing them to harassment. “Cancel ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 1, 2021
Education
KFDA Amarillo Talks to Lance Izumi About Biden Education Policies
Watch PRI’s senior director of the Center for Education Lance Izumi talk to News Channel 10 Amarillo’s “The Chat” about Biden’s educational policies in 2021. Izumi grades the federal response to education with the loosening of the pandemic, the role public schools and unions have played in school reopening, and ...
Lance Izumi
June 30, 2021
Environment
CBS San Francisco Interviews Steven Greenhut on Marin Desalination, Drought
Drought: Transbay Pipeline, Desalination Plant Could Boost Marin’s Dwindling Water Supply By John Ramos CORTE MADERA (KPIX) — Communities across the state are desperately searching for ways to make their dwindling water supplies last. In Marin County, one water district is considering sources that they’ve looked to in the past. ...
Pacific Research Institute
June 22, 2021
Featured
Read Sally Pipes’ Remarks from Adam Smith Society National Meeting
Below are remarks delivered by PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes at the annual national meeting of the Adam Smith Society on June 9, 2021. She spoke about free market health care solutions. Thank you so very much for inviting me ...
Sally C. Pipes
June 10, 2021
Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Drug Pricing Reform with Scripps National News
Watch Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his recent study showing how a two-part drug pricing system would ensure prices more accurately reflect how patients value drugs with Scripps National News. The report aired on 60 television stations in 42 markets across the ...
In Bipartisan Vote, U.S. Senate Follows PRI’s Advice in Rejecting ‘Costly Subsidies for the Rich’
You may have missed it amidst the “vote-a-rama” on dozens of amendments to the Senate Democrats’ $3.5 billion budget reconciliation bill being voted on early Wednesday morning, but a key bipartisan vote could put an end to what PRI has termed “costly subsidies for the rich,” or taxpayers subsidizing electric ...
Watch Lance Izumi Discuss Push to Nix High School Graduation Standards on Newsy
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses the push by states like Oregon to suspend high school graduation standards in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic with host Chance Seales on Newsy TV.
In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California
Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Lance Izumi Discusses Politics in Education on “The Chat”
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the problems with politics in the classroom on “The Chat” on Newschannel 10, KFDA-TV, in Amarillo, TX. Click here to watch the interview
Steven Greenhut Joins KFBK Morning News to Talk Drought, Water
Steven Greenhut, author of PRI’s “Winning the Water Wars,” talks about California’s drought, water storage, the policy of “water abundance,” and what’s next for Californians.
PRI Hails Supreme Court Decision Protecting Free Speech Rights of Americans who Make Donations to Charities
The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) today applauded the U.S Supreme Court’s decision upholding the First Amendment rights of all Americans to make donations to the charities they support. The Court struck down as facially unconstitutional the California Attorney General’s compelled disclosure of major donor’s identities—thereby exposing them to harassment. “Cancel ...
KFDA Amarillo Talks to Lance Izumi About Biden Education Policies
Watch PRI’s senior director of the Center for Education Lance Izumi talk to News Channel 10 Amarillo’s “The Chat” about Biden’s educational policies in 2021. Izumi grades the federal response to education with the loosening of the pandemic, the role public schools and unions have played in school reopening, and ...
CBS San Francisco Interviews Steven Greenhut on Marin Desalination, Drought
Drought: Transbay Pipeline, Desalination Plant Could Boost Marin’s Dwindling Water Supply By John Ramos CORTE MADERA (KPIX) — Communities across the state are desperately searching for ways to make their dwindling water supplies last. In Marin County, one water district is considering sources that they’ve looked to in the past. ...
Read Sally Pipes’ Remarks from Adam Smith Society National Meeting
Below are remarks delivered by PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes at the annual national meeting of the Adam Smith Society on June 9, 2021. She spoke about free market health care solutions. Thank you so very much for inviting me ...