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Azar Pick Signals Regulatory Action on Obamacare

By Erin Durkin The next potential Health and Human Services secretary appears likely to emphasize administrative actions to dismantle Obamacare after congressional Republicans failed to repeal the law this year. Former Eli Lilly and Company executive Alex Azar—who was HHS deputy secretary in the George W. Bush administration— shares former ...
California

California’s Drug Pricing Challenge

Watch a Sacramento panel discussion on California’s drug pricing challenge, co-hosted by PRI and the Manhattan Institute. Moderated by former longtime Capitol journalist Marcey Brightwell, panelists include Dr. Tom Coburn of the Manhattan Institute (and former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma), PRI’s Sally Pipes, and Brett Johnson of the California Life ...
California

Steve Hayward – Free Speech Under Attack on Campus

PRI’s Steve Hayward, who is currently teaching at UC Berkeley, joins us to talk about his front-row seat to the current clash over free speech, incidents of conservative speakers being violently silenced, and how we can protect the debate of ideas on campus from current attacks on provocative ideas and ...
Health Care

California Shows its Obamacare Support by Outspending U.S. 4-to-1 on Ads

By Ana B. Ibarra and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez The marketing blitz is on. Californians are getting barraged with online pop-up ads, radio spots and television commercials, all aimed at persuading them to sign up for Affordable Care Act health plans during this year’s open-enrollment season. Covered California, the state’s Obamacare ...
Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes – How the Free Market Can Improve our Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes of the Benjamin Rush Institute joins us to discuss how free-market solutions can improve people’s healthcare, the ongoing fights over Obamacare and single-payer health care, and the latest trends in health care today.
Blog

Some Help for Your Black Friday Shopping List

Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for a holiday tradition that most of us have a love-hate relationship with – holiday shopping. If you’re like us, you never know what to get the people on your shopping list.  We can always use some ...
Business & Economics

Lower mortgage interest tax break: “All-out assault” or glancing blow?

By Jeff Ostrowski If there’s one thing that’s certain to mobilize the nation’s largest trade group, it’s any talk of reining in tax breaks for homeowners with mortgages. House Republicans on Thursday passed a tax plan that caps at $500,000 the amount of debt eligible for the mortgage interest deduction. ...
Business & Economics

How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Business & Economics

Clark Judge – President Trump and his Communications Style

Clark Judge is the chairman of the Pacific Research Institute, founder of The White House Writers Group and a former Reagan speechwriter.  He joins us to discuss President Trump’s communications style, his effectiveness in advocating for his agenda, and lessons to be learned from the Gipper.
Business & Economics

Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040

A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
Health Care

Azar Pick Signals Regulatory Action on Obamacare

By Erin Durkin The next potential Health and Human Services secretary appears likely to emphasize administrative actions to dismantle Obamacare after congressional Republicans failed to repeal the law this year. Former Eli Lilly and Company executive Alex Azar—who was HHS deputy secretary in the George W. Bush administration— shares former ...
California

California’s Drug Pricing Challenge

Watch a Sacramento panel discussion on California’s drug pricing challenge, co-hosted by PRI and the Manhattan Institute. Moderated by former longtime Capitol journalist Marcey Brightwell, panelists include Dr. Tom Coburn of the Manhattan Institute (and former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma), PRI’s Sally Pipes, and Brett Johnson of the California Life ...
California

Steve Hayward – Free Speech Under Attack on Campus

PRI’s Steve Hayward, who is currently teaching at UC Berkeley, joins us to talk about his front-row seat to the current clash over free speech, incidents of conservative speakers being violently silenced, and how we can protect the debate of ideas on campus from current attacks on provocative ideas and ...
Health Care

California Shows its Obamacare Support by Outspending U.S. 4-to-1 on Ads

By Ana B. Ibarra and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez The marketing blitz is on. Californians are getting barraged with online pop-up ads, radio spots and television commercials, all aimed at persuading them to sign up for Affordable Care Act health plans during this year’s open-enrollment season. Covered California, the state’s Obamacare ...
Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes – How the Free Market Can Improve our Health Care

Dr. Beth Haynes of the Benjamin Rush Institute joins us to discuss how free-market solutions can improve people’s healthcare, the ongoing fights over Obamacare and single-payer health care, and the latest trends in health care today.
Blog

Some Help for Your Black Friday Shopping List

Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for a holiday tradition that most of us have a love-hate relationship with – holiday shopping. If you’re like us, you never know what to get the people on your shopping list.  We can always use some ...
Business & Economics

Lower mortgage interest tax break: “All-out assault” or glancing blow?

By Jeff Ostrowski If there’s one thing that’s certain to mobilize the nation’s largest trade group, it’s any talk of reining in tax breaks for homeowners with mortgages. House Republicans on Thursday passed a tax plan that caps at $500,000 the amount of debt eligible for the mortgage interest deduction. ...
Business & Economics

How the GOP Tax Plan Will Affect Small Business

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aims to spur economic growth across the United States by adjusting tax structures for small businesses and corporations. Though the bill is still being debated, amended and adjusted, if it passes, it may have serious implications for you and your business. It can be ...
Business & Economics

Clark Judge – President Trump and his Communications Style

Clark Judge is the chairman of the Pacific Research Institute, founder of The White House Writers Group and a former Reagan speechwriter.  He joins us to discuss President Trump’s communications style, his effectiveness in advocating for his agenda, and lessons to be learned from the Gipper.
Business & Economics

Killing the gasoline-powered car in California? That’s what one legislator wants by 2040

A clean energy advocate in the California Legislature wants internal combustion vehicles to sputter out of existence on the state’s roads and highways. “The cars that we drive today are based on technology that’s 100 years old,” said Assembly member Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. “It’s almost like we’re doing addition ...
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