Pacific Research Institute President and CEO Sally C. Pipes delivered this year’s commencement address to the graduates of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. At the event, she received an honorary doctor of humane ...
22 April, 2018
Patients could save time and money if federal law is reformed to allow pharmacists to administer all CDC recommended vaccines, a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute found. Click here to download a copy of th...
17 April, 2018
PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes joins us to discuss her new book, The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care, and explore the impact single-payer would have on California’s healt...
05 March, 2018The controversial medical device tax hurts doctors, patients and manufacturers and should be repealed by Congress – according a new study released today by the California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institu...
08 October, 2018We Need Smarter Regulation of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology By John J. Cohrseen and Henry I. Miller EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the early 1970s a group of scientists — none involved in agriculture or food — raised concerns about th...
28 September, 2018
Proposed reforms to the Medicare competitive bidding process for wheelchairs, home breathing equipment, and other durable medical equipment underscore the findings of a recently-released Pacific Research Institute study showing th...
26 July, 2018Play everyone’s favorite game show “What Will You Bid?” to learn about the broken competitive bidding process for providing durable medical equipment to Medicare patients. Read the new study by PRI’s Wayne ...
24 August, 2018The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of les...
22 August, 2018With the mid-term elections now less than 100 days away, the siren-call for single-payer or “Medicare for All” continues. Fifty-one percent of those polled earlier this year by Kaiser support single payer, the highest number ever...
15 August, 2018PRI Senior Fellow in Health Care, Dr. Henry Miller, discusses the marketing of $6-a-gallon “raw water” and how the “authentic industry” is pushing pure hooey on the nationally-sydnicated Lars Larson Show. T...
21 September, 2018PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Healthcare Studies Sally C. Pipes discusses how single-payer health care would lead to a massive doctor shortage on the “Pat Miller Program” on WOWO Radio in Ft. Wayne,...
21 September, 2018Listen to PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Healthcare Policy Sally C. Pipes discuss the push for single-payer health care and her recent column in the Washington Examiner on the problem of younger doctors embracin...
05 September, 2018
Commentary
Government Policies Are Driving Doctors To Quit Health Care
Doctors nationwide are burnt out and unsatisfied. Many want to quit the profession entirely, according to a new survey from the Physicians Foundation. The government deserves much of the blame for doctors’ low morale. For ye...
15 October, 2018Bureaucrats Turn ‘Dark Regulatory Matter’ Into Law, But Is It Constitutional?
The Dark State is real and ubiquitous, but it is neither new nor necessarily sinister. In some respects, it is inherent in our system of government. Although our government was conceived as three interdependent, coequal branches, ...
11 October, 2018Trump is right: There’s no possible way we can afford ‘Medicare for all’
On Wednesday, President Trump authored an op-ed slamming “Medicare for all.” According to him, if Democrats succeed in implementing their single-payer proposal, “costs will spiral out of control. Taxes will skyro...
10 October, 2018