Press Release
Business & Economics
Economist: Leahy’s CREATES Act, Excluded From Budget, Would Help Trial Lawyers, Hurt Patients
By Glenn Minnis Despite support from a few Republicans, a measure championed by Sen. Pat Leahy, D-VT, targeting health care costs did not make its way into the budget passed by Congress earlier this month. The exclusion of the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act disappointed ...
California
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Closely Watched Cal Fire Case
Click here to download a copy of the brief SAN FRANCISCO – California-based non-partisan think tank Pacific Research Institute has filed an amicus brief before the California Supreme Court on a closely-watched case that challenges the ability of state and local governments to adjust future pension benefits for current workers. ...
Charter Schools
Here’s Why The Education Department Eliminated Its ‘Extremely Wasteful Programs,’ According To Expert
The Department of Education requested over 10 percent less funding for its 2018 budget, and an education scholar explained Friday why he supported the decision. The Trump administration requested $59.9 billion for 2018 — an amount $7.1 billion smaller than its 2017 budget. Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies ...
Business & Economics
Report Slams 340B Drug Discount Program
By Tracey Walker The 340B Drug Discount program, designed to give discounted prescription drugs to poor Americans, has not been effective in serving its targeted population, according to a new report. The report, “Addressing the Problems of Abuse in the 340B Drug Pricing Program,” by the Pacific Research Institute, found that the ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Interviewed on Capital Public Radio on Individual Mandate
Click here to listen to the interview Starting in 2019, Americans will no longer be required to carry health insurance. But Californians might — if a state insurance mandate becomes a reality. Democratic state Sen. Ed Hernandez, chairperson of the Senate Health Committee, said he’s reaching out to consumer groups, ...
Business & Economics
New PRI Study: Breaking Down Barriers in Insurance Markets Would Benefit Consumers, Expand Job Opportunities
According to a new study released today, victims of the recent natural disasters in the United States could face long rebuilding delays unless reforms removing insurance marketplace regulatory barriers are adopted to fix a broken system. Click here to download a copy of “Breaking Down Barriers” “The victims of the ...
Commentary
Sally Pipes in Wall Street Journal: Single-Payer Health Care Isn’t Worth Waiting For
When Brian Day opened the Cambie Surgery Centre in 1996, he had a simple goal. Dr. Day, an orthopedic surgeon from Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted to provide timely, state-of-the-art medical care to Canadians who were unwilling to wait months—even years—for surgery they needed. Canada’s single-payer health-care system, known as Medicare, ...
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi Interview in Daily Caller: Two-Thirds Of Voters Support School Choice, Minorities More Likely Than White Americans
A Thursday poll showed that about two-thirds of likely 2018 voters are in favor of school choice. Sixty-three percent of Americans likely to vote in the 2018 elections supportschool choice, with minorities more likely to support it than white people, according to a press release obtained by The Daily Caller News ...
California
Kerry Jackson in Jonah Goldberg Column: Does the California Model Really Work?
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public-policy debate. For many progressives, California’s metastasizing liberalism proves you can have Scandinavian-style social policies and tax rates and still have robust economic growth. For conservatives, California is like a bumblebee. ...
California
Kerry Jackson Cited in Intellectual Takeout: California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
an you guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the U.S.? Many people would say Mississippi. That’s how I would have responded if you had asked me this morning, and I would have been right in a sense. There are two different ways to measure poverty, you see. ...
Economist: Leahy’s CREATES Act, Excluded From Budget, Would Help Trial Lawyers, Hurt Patients
By Glenn Minnis Despite support from a few Republicans, a measure championed by Sen. Pat Leahy, D-VT, targeting health care costs did not make its way into the budget passed by Congress earlier this month. The exclusion of the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act disappointed ...
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Closely Watched Cal Fire Case
Click here to download a copy of the brief SAN FRANCISCO – California-based non-partisan think tank Pacific Research Institute has filed an amicus brief before the California Supreme Court on a closely-watched case that challenges the ability of state and local governments to adjust future pension benefits for current workers. ...
Here’s Why The Education Department Eliminated Its ‘Extremely Wasteful Programs,’ According To Expert
The Department of Education requested over 10 percent less funding for its 2018 budget, and an education scholar explained Friday why he supported the decision. The Trump administration requested $59.9 billion for 2018 — an amount $7.1 billion smaller than its 2017 budget. Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies ...
Report Slams 340B Drug Discount Program
By Tracey Walker The 340B Drug Discount program, designed to give discounted prescription drugs to poor Americans, has not been effective in serving its targeted population, according to a new report. The report, “Addressing the Problems of Abuse in the 340B Drug Pricing Program,” by the Pacific Research Institute, found that the ...
Sally Pipes Interviewed on Capital Public Radio on Individual Mandate
Click here to listen to the interview Starting in 2019, Americans will no longer be required to carry health insurance. But Californians might — if a state insurance mandate becomes a reality. Democratic state Sen. Ed Hernandez, chairperson of the Senate Health Committee, said he’s reaching out to consumer groups, ...
New PRI Study: Breaking Down Barriers in Insurance Markets Would Benefit Consumers, Expand Job Opportunities
According to a new study released today, victims of the recent natural disasters in the United States could face long rebuilding delays unless reforms removing insurance marketplace regulatory barriers are adopted to fix a broken system. Click here to download a copy of “Breaking Down Barriers” “The victims of the ...
Sally Pipes in Wall Street Journal: Single-Payer Health Care Isn’t Worth Waiting For
When Brian Day opened the Cambie Surgery Centre in 1996, he had a simple goal. Dr. Day, an orthopedic surgeon from Vancouver, British Columbia, wanted to provide timely, state-of-the-art medical care to Canadians who were unwilling to wait months—even years—for surgery they needed. Canada’s single-payer health-care system, known as Medicare, ...
Lance Izumi Interview in Daily Caller: Two-Thirds Of Voters Support School Choice, Minorities More Likely Than White Americans
A Thursday poll showed that about two-thirds of likely 2018 voters are in favor of school choice. Sixty-three percent of Americans likely to vote in the 2018 elections supportschool choice, with minorities more likely to support it than white people, according to a press release obtained by The Daily Caller News ...
Kerry Jackson in Jonah Goldberg Column: Does the California Model Really Work?
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public-policy debate. For many progressives, California’s metastasizing liberalism proves you can have Scandinavian-style social policies and tax rates and still have robust economic growth. For conservatives, California is like a bumblebee. ...
Kerry Jackson Cited in Intellectual Takeout: California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
an you guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the U.S.? Many people would say Mississippi. That’s how I would have responded if you had asked me this morning, and I would have been right in a sense. There are two different ways to measure poverty, you see. ...
