ISSUE BRIEF: Biopharma Drug Makers Are Not the Most Profitable Players in Health Care
Pacific Research Institute
January 21, 2026
A new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that innovative drug manufacturers earn some of the lowest risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. health care system, despite making the ...
Watch PRI’s interview with Rick Caruso – one year after the wildfires
Pacific Research Institute
January 7, 2026
In this special Free Cities Center interview, Rick Caruso – founder and executive chairman of Caruso, longtime civic and philanthropic leader in Los Angeles and former mayor candidate – discusses LA’s rebuilding efforts one year after the wildfires. He shares ...
Despite Newsom’s Claims, California is One of America’s Least Fiscally Stable States
Nikhil Agarwal
February 11, 2026
Earlier this month, an optimistic Newsom claimed while presenting his latest proposed budget that it ‘reflect(ed) both confidence and caution,’ but if the state’s past performances are anything to go by, then Californians should be wary. The National Association of ...
Proposed Patent Tax Threatens the Research That Powers Growth
Sally C. Pipes
February 10, 2026
Is federally funded science really a raw deal for taxpayers? Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seems to think so. “If we fund it and they invent a patent,” he recently said, “the United States of America taxpayer should get half the ...
ISSUE BRIEF: Government Policy Is Consolidating the Practice of Medicine
Wayne Winegarden
February 10, 2026
A new issue brief released today by the Pacific Research Institute—the California-based, nonpartisan, free market think tank—finds that certain states’ efforts to tighten corporate practice of medicine laws hurt independent physicians, empower hospitals to consolidate local provider markets, and raise ...
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Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
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