Commentary
Business & Economics
Can The Government Afford Economic Growth?
Despite the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate increase last week, interest rates remain low by historical standards. While rising interest rates are an indication that the economic outlook is improving, the slow climb back to normal rates is a significant risk to the government’s budget. 50 years ago, about 10 ...
Business & Economics
To Grow California’s Economy, Legislature Must Act to Stop Junk Lawsuits
California’s business climate is more predictable than its weather. It’s always one storm after the other. Companies relocate to states where they are welcomed rather than vilified and preyed upon. Capital is moved to more jobs-friendly states. Productive workers just get out, or are left behind with few good opportunities ...
California
California, Here We Go
Click here to read PRI’s issue brief on California’s housing crisis, Unaffordable. Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Stories about the desperate living arrangements of highly compensated California tech workers sound like tales of Third World misery. One newspaper ...
Commentary
Putting The CBO’s Score Of The American Health Care Act In Perspective
The Congressional Budget Office’s new analysis of the American Health Care Act seems to provide plenty of ammunition for Obamacare’s defenders. But if the last few years have proven anything, it’s that we shouldn’t put too much faith in the CBO’s predictions — especially about the future. The report simultaneously ...
Commentary
Sally Pipes Speaks At Steamboat Institute Conference on Health Care After Obamacare
Watch Sally Pipes discuss efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as part of a recent Steamboat Institute conference held in Monterey, CA. She is joined on the panel by Hal Scherz, M.D, the founder of Docs 4 Patient Care, and Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Fellow for the Steamboat Institute ...
Commentary
Our Veterans Deserve Real Health Care Choices
Late last month, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered a plan to let veterans escape the VA’s beleaguered health system. His proposal would expand the agency’s existing Veterans Choice Program — an initiative that was supposed to allow veterans to seek care from private health care providers if they face ...
Business & Economics
State Must Stop Unforced Errors To Attract New Manufacturing Jobs
California leads the nation in manufacturing jobs with nearly 1.3 million. But this doesn’t mean all’s well with manufacturing in the state. Job growth in the sector is miserable. We rank 24th in growth out of the 32 states that have more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Michigan leads the country ...
Commentary
Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare
The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
Commentary
House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Business & Economics
Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Pbms) To Improve Pharmaceutical Affordability
Imagine if you never had to directly pay for your morning cup of coffee again. Instead, a coffee insurer guaranteed that, for a small co-pay, you could enjoy a cup of coffee every morning. Sounds good? The catch, and there is always a catch, is the caveat “directly pay.” In ...
Can The Government Afford Economic Growth?
Despite the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate increase last week, interest rates remain low by historical standards. While rising interest rates are an indication that the economic outlook is improving, the slow climb back to normal rates is a significant risk to the government’s budget. 50 years ago, about 10 ...
To Grow California’s Economy, Legislature Must Act to Stop Junk Lawsuits
California’s business climate is more predictable than its weather. It’s always one storm after the other. Companies relocate to states where they are welcomed rather than vilified and preyed upon. Capital is moved to more jobs-friendly states. Productive workers just get out, or are left behind with few good opportunities ...
California, Here We Go
Click here to read PRI’s issue brief on California’s housing crisis, Unaffordable. Click here to watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Stories about the desperate living arrangements of highly compensated California tech workers sound like tales of Third World misery. One newspaper ...
Putting The CBO’s Score Of The American Health Care Act In Perspective
The Congressional Budget Office’s new analysis of the American Health Care Act seems to provide plenty of ammunition for Obamacare’s defenders. But if the last few years have proven anything, it’s that we shouldn’t put too much faith in the CBO’s predictions — especially about the future. The report simultaneously ...
Sally Pipes Speaks At Steamboat Institute Conference on Health Care After Obamacare
Watch Sally Pipes discuss efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare as part of a recent Steamboat Institute conference held in Monterey, CA. She is joined on the panel by Hal Scherz, M.D, the founder of Docs 4 Patient Care, and Hadley Heath Manning, Tony Blankley Fellow for the Steamboat Institute ...
Our Veterans Deserve Real Health Care Choices
Late last month, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered a plan to let veterans escape the VA’s beleaguered health system. His proposal would expand the agency’s existing Veterans Choice Program — an initiative that was supposed to allow veterans to seek care from private health care providers if they face ...
State Must Stop Unforced Errors To Attract New Manufacturing Jobs
California leads the nation in manufacturing jobs with nearly 1.3 million. But this doesn’t mean all’s well with manufacturing in the state. Job growth in the sector is miserable. We rank 24th in growth out of the 32 states that have more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Michigan leads the country ...
Republicans’ Health Care Bill Is America’s Best Chance To End Obamacare
The most noteworthy thing about the House Republican leadership’s new American Health Care Act is that a lot of Republicans appear to be unhappy with it. It leaves in place some of Obamacare’s most destructive provisions. For instance, the reform allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until 26, ...
House Republican Plan Only The First Step Toward Repealing And Replacing Obamacare
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership formally unveiled their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the American Health Care Act. The legislation is far from a free-marketer’s dream. But it may also represent the only politically viable way to repeal Obamacare — and set the stage for a replacement that ...
Reform Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Pbms) To Improve Pharmaceutical Affordability
Imagine if you never had to directly pay for your morning cup of coffee again. Instead, a coffee insurer guaranteed that, for a small co-pay, you could enjoy a cup of coffee every morning. Sounds good? The catch, and there is always a catch, is the caveat “directly pay.” In ...
