Issues
Public policy is too important to be left just to the experts.
PRI’s work encompasses countless studies, commentary, books, podcasts, blog posts, and events surrounding our mission to promote the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. Our areas of research include health care, education, environment, innovation, California reform, and business economics. Explore our topics below.
Health Care
Most Recent Post:
How government policy is killing independent medicine
Independent physicians are disappearing from American healthcare. Increasingly, the doctors patients see are employees of hospital systems or insurance conglomerates. Government policy is the reason for this wave of consolidation. Medicare’s reimbursement rules, payment advantages for hospitals, and distortions embedded in the federal 340B drug ...
Most Recent Post:
Young Americans Have Real Problems. Socialism Is the Wrong Answer.
That’s an extraordinary reversal and simply telling young Americans that socialism doesn’t work won’t reverse it. To make the case for free markets, we first have to understand why socialism is appealing to so many young Americans. Consider the Democratic Socialists of America have become ...
California Reform
Most Recent Post:
Apparently, California regulators think tires don’t cost enough
California drivers already pay some of the nation’s highest prices for gasoline, electricity and car ownership. Now, Sacramento is giving us something else to worry about: How much we’ll pay for our next set of tires. Regulators at the state Energy Commission just approved the ...
Education
Most Recent Post:
Flouting the Law: USDOJ Finds UC Med Schools Racially Discriminated
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, which prohibited government, such as public universities, from discriminating or granting preferences based on race, sex, or ethnicity. After its approval, the language of the proposition became part of the state constitution. In 2020, an effort to overturn ...
Environment
Most Recent Post:
Meat processing deregulation plan could have dire consequences
On the heels of an announcement to allow 300,000 tons of beef into the U.S. without tariffs, the President announced late last week that the Administration was looking to “allow farmers and ranchers to be given the right to process their own food.” According to ...