Studies
Health Care
The Biosimilar Promise
Despite Achievements, Barriers That Discourage Biosimilar Use Remain
December 2, 2024
The Biosimilar Promise
Low-Cost Biosimilars Are Saving Billions, Potential Savings Are Even Greater
October 28, 2024
NEW BRIEF: Empowering Providers to Promote Healthcare Innovation
January 4, 2023
NEW BRIEF: Promoting Transparency and Competition in the Drug Market
October 10, 2022
Policy To-Do Lists
October 6, 2022
The Fundamental Flaws of the Third-Party Payer System
January 12, 2022
NEW BRIEF: Counterfeit Drugs Harm Patients, Economy, Innovation
October 13, 2020
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
January 16, 2020
PRI Single-Payer Poll Watch
December 17, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
Trump Is Right: The UK’s NHS Is Failing And More Money Won’t Save It
February 28, 2018
Who Has The Best Plan?
February 1, 2017
Who Has the Best Health Care Plan – Hillary or Donald?
October 11, 2016
Impact Magazine — Summer 2016
July 4, 2016
Improving the Incentive to Innovate
June 22, 2016
India’s War On Intellectual Property Rights May Bring With It A Body Count
September 16, 2013
The Cure for Obamacare
June 24, 2013
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
March 21, 2013
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
Obamacare’s tax on medical devices
May 1, 2012
The Medicare Auction Design and Incentives for Research and Development
November 18, 2011
Why Health Exchanges Don’t Work
August 1, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
January 5, 2011
The End of the “Individual Mandate” Is Not the End of Obamacare
January 5, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care
January 4, 2011
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
November 8, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
September 22, 2010
ObamaCare Will Dramatically Reduce Choice in Private Insurance
September 9, 2010
Which is More Obese, San Francisco’s Kids, or Its Government?
August 25, 2010
BOOK RELEASE: THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMACARE
August 5, 2010
Leviathan’s Drug Problem
July 27, 2010
Medical Tort: Ranking the 50 States
July 13, 2010
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
June 8, 2010
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
April 28, 2010
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
April 12, 2010
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
March 17, 2010
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
January 19, 2010
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
November 4, 2009
The Facts about Medical Malpractice Liability Costs
October 7, 2009
San Francisco’s Employer Health Tax: Change We Can Do Without
September 9, 2009
U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
July 21, 2009
Deciphering the Polls: How to Win Health Reform
May 12, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide
March 12, 2009
Health Reform in California: Three Simple Steps
February 25, 2009
If Eight Is Enough, Why Isn’t $60 Billion?
February 19, 2009
Cajun Care: Medicaid Reform in Louisiana
December 10, 2008
Election 2008: An Unhealthy Outcome
November 12, 2008
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide-1
October 22, 2008
2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership
August 14, 2008
California Can Learn Health Care Lessons From Down Under
April 30, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
California Health Care Deforminator Model ABX1 1: A Requiem
March 13, 2008
What Now for California Health Care?
February 13, 2008
Amicus Brief Against ObamaCare
May 12, 0201
Business & Economics
Spending Watch
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
November 12, 2024
The Gordon Chang Report–China: Mastermind of Middle East Turmoil
September 16, 2024
NEW STUDY FINDS
Americans Pay $1,300 ‘Tort Tax,’ Fixing Legal System Would Grow Economy by 2 Percent
July 12, 2023
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018
The “Golden Skirts,” Norway’s New Quota Queens
April 6, 2017
Beyond The New Normal – Part 2: Accounting For Government
February 3, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Pension System
August 30, 2016
Improving the Incentive to Innovate
June 22, 2016
Corporate Inversions Are the Symptoms; Poor Tax Policies Are the Disease
February 24, 2016
California Pension Crisis
January 8, 2016
Prospective Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Entrepreneurship
November 20, 2015
The 50-State Small Business Regulation Index
July 24, 2015
The Regressive Impact on Ohio’s Families from EPA’s Proposed Regulations
December 10, 2014
Devaluation in a Free Trade World
December 3, 2014
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
50 State Index Of Energy Regulation
August 7, 2014
Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
January 10, 2014
Obama’s Green Team
June 7, 2013
New Analysis of Orange County Toll Roads
April 9, 2013
Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials
April 5, 2013
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
Educated Legislators, Bad Economy
July 6, 2011
Brown Busts the Budget
June 22, 2011
A Case for Affirmative Disclosure of Public Pensions
June 15, 2011
Recession and Recovery in California
April 12, 2011
Bringing More Sunshine to California
March 16, 2011
Bye-Bye Secret Ballot?
March 16, 2011
Redevelopment is Redistribution
February 16, 2011
Why California Should Not Follow New York’s Internet Tax Plan
February 2, 2011
A War That Has Ended
February 1, 2011
Going Down Swinging in 2010
December 7, 2010
California Tax Facts 2011
October 19, 2010
PRI Study: Californians Deserve Better Value for Tax Dollars
October 13, 2010
Can We Fix the California Crackup?
October 13, 2010
The Whole 209 Yards: California’s Proposition for the Nation
October 5, 2010
Does California’s Budget Crisis Discriminate Against Women?
September 29, 2010
20 years later: Self esteem movement was utopian hucksterism
August 15, 2010
Taxifornia by Jason Clemens
June 15, 2010
Taxifornia
April 15, 2010
Court Routes Internet Around Government Regulations
April 14, 2010
Margaret, Cristina, and Hillary
April 6, 2010
Sacramento takes aim at free parking
February 26, 2010
The War Against Free Parking
February 17, 2010
2010 Tort Liability Index Ranks States’ Tort Climate
February 6, 2010
California’s Corporate Exodus
January 27, 2010
A Woman’s Nation?
January 5, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
Why Feminists Make No Allowance for Women’s Choices
November 3, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Is the Recession Harder on Women than Men?
October 6, 2009
Is San Francisco’s “Open Season” on Data a Model for State Government?
September 2, 2009
Tort Tally 2009
August 29, 2009
Why the Silver State Mines the Golden State for Business
August 26, 2009
Assessing the State of the Golden State
August 18, 2009
Will a California-Style Texting Ban Make the Nation Safer?
August 5, 2009
The Gender Gap in Happiness
August 4, 2009
California Enterprise Value Index
July 9, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger Takes a Stand for Tech
July 8, 2009
Digital Dialogues
July 3, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
Nanny Government Plays from the Rough
May 5, 2009
Tort Law Tally
April 28, 2009
That Voodoo That You Do So Well
April 4, 2009
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
January 7, 2009
Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
January 6, 2009
New Year’s Resolution for California: Let Economic Freedom Ring
December 31, 2008
Study ranks Idaho highly in economic freedom
December 1, 2008
Broadband Summit: Connecting America
November 6, 2008
Governor Arnold’s Regendering Plan
November 4, 2008
New Report Reveals Which States Have Most Economic Freedom
September 16, 2008
Will a lawsuit today keep Apple away?
September 3, 2008
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
Male-Female Facts and Fallacies
April 1, 2008
U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report
March 11, 2008
Big Brother Targets Foundations and Nonprofits
January 23, 2008
Education
Read new survey on public education
New PRI Poll: As New School Year Begins, Voters See Room for Improvement with Local Schools
August 28, 2023
CAPITAL IDEAS: Time for an Alternative to Common Core Testing
December 22, 2022
Policy To-Do Lists
October 6, 2022
#ChartersWork School Profile: Renaissance Arts Academy
June 24, 2016
Not As Good As You Think: New Jersey
February 1, 2016
Not As Good As You Think: Colorado
September 23, 2015
Impact Magazine — Summer 2015
August 10, 2015
Moonshots in Education
May 19, 2015
Not as Good as You Think: Michigan
March 18, 2015
Not as Good as You Think
May 14, 2014
Next-Gen Education
January 9, 2013
Obama’s Education Takeover
February 17, 2012
Lessons for California from National School Choice Week
January 18, 2011
Demography Is Still Not Destiny
November 29, 2010
Lessons from Florida for California’s New Legislators
November 10, 2010
Back Stories to Waiting for Superman
October 6, 2010
Back-to-School Lessons from LAUSD
September 8, 2010
Fair to Middling: A National Standards Progress Report
April 2, 2010
Why Race to the Middle?
February 23, 2010
Why Race to the Middle?
February 23, 2010
Not As Safe As You Think
October 20, 2009
Choice Could Help Children “Write Their Own Destiny”
September 16, 2009
Citizen’s Guide to California Public School Finance
March 31, 2009
Choice and Good Schools—Swedish Style
October 19, 2008
Do the Math – Or Let Parents Pick a School That Will
September 10, 2008
Court Re-Connects with Reality in Homeschool Reversal
August 27, 2008
The “Title Nining” of Academic Science
June 3, 2008
English Immersion or Law Evasion?
June 2, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
Court Out of Touch with Reality in Homeschool Decision
March 19, 2008
Need Deficit Solutions? Think School Choices
January 16, 2008
California
Gas Warfare in California
November 21, 2024
Spending Watch
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
November 12, 2024
The Fentanyl Resurgimiento— A Drug Like No Other
June 14, 2023
NEW PRI REPORT FINDS
State Will Fall 21.1 Percent Short of Power Needed to Meet 2045 EV Mandate
June 8, 2023
New PRI Book Release
State Planners Focus Too Much on Social Engineering Rather Than Transportation Engineering
May 24, 2023
CAPITAL IDEAS: The ‘Nuclear Option’ To Get Rid of Cars
October 17, 2022
CAPITAL IDEAS: When June Gloom Lasts All Year
June 20, 2022
California Should Embrace Nuclear in Race to Meet All Renewables Mandate
February 28, 2022
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Gets Kicked by Drought 66
November 16, 2021
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Slow-Built Rail
August 31, 2021
CAPITAL IDEAS: The War on Plastics: The Narrative Must Be Fed
October 12, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: Defund AB5 Enforcement
July 6, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: The Old City Dumps Aren’t What They Used To Be
December 12, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: The Ugly Side of the Pursuit for ‘Sustainability’
August 28, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Plastic Police Always on The Job
March 25, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS – CEQA: How To Mend It Since You Can’t End It
February 20, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Court Should Pave Way for State to Plan for Next Drought
December 17, 2017
Beyond The New Normal – Part 2: Accounting For Government
February 3, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: State Shouldn’t Export “Only in California” Bad Laws
October 25, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Climate Change Bill Will Cost California Hundreds of Millions
September 20, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Environmental Policies
August 17, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Cal Exodus
June 27, 2016
Readings from the PRI Water Conference
June 20, 2016
California Pension Crisis
January 8, 2016
CAPITAL IDEAS: Teacher Shortages, Union Contracts and the Supreme Court
November 12, 2015
Impact Magazine — Summer 2015
August 10, 2015
PRI’s California Prosperity Agenda
May 26, 2015
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
January 10, 2014
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
November 12, 2013
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
April 16, 2013
New Analysis of Orange County Toll Roads
April 9, 2013
Municipal Bankruptcy: An Overview for Local Officials
April 5, 2013
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
March 21, 2013
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
New Report on Controlling Rising Government Compensation Costs
November 5, 2012
New Book by Art Laffer on How to Fix California
March 21, 2012
It’s Time to Neuter California’s Legislature
July 19, 2011
Brown Busts the Budget
June 22, 2011
A Case for Affirmative Disclosure of Public Pensions
June 15, 2011
California’s Cover Story
May 11, 2011
Card-Check Tricks in the Capitol
April 20, 2011
Recession and Recovery in California
April 12, 2011
Bringing More Sunshine to California
March 16, 2011
Redevelopment is Redistribution
February 16, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
January 5, 2011
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care
January 4, 2011
California Tax Facts 2011
October 19, 2010
PRI Study: Californians Deserve Better Value for Tax Dollars
October 13, 2010
Can We Fix the California Crackup?
October 13, 2010
Does California’s Budget Crisis Discriminate Against Women?
September 29, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger: Don’t Build This Wall!
September 22, 2010
Taxifornia by Jason Clemens
June 15, 2010
Honest Talk About California’s Uninsured
April 28, 2010
California Disconnect
April 27, 2010
Taxifornia
April 15, 2010
Repeal and Replace, But With What?
April 12, 2010
Sacramento takes aim at free parking
February 26, 2010
The War Against Free Parking
February 17, 2010
California’s Corporate Exodus
January 27, 2010
California State News and Investigative Reporting Website
January 6, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
Why California’s “Two-Plan” Does Not Support the “Public Option”
November 4, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
California’s E-Waste Waste
October 7, 2009
Is San Francisco’s “Open Season” on Data a Model for State Government?
September 2, 2009
Why the Silver State Mines the Golden State for Business
August 26, 2009
Assessing the State of the Golden State
August 18, 2009
Is the CIRM Good Medicine for California?
May 6, 2009
Nanny Government Plays from the Rough
May 5, 2009
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report
April 16, 2009
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
January 7, 2009
Election 2008: An Unhealthy Outcome
November 12, 2008
Governor Arnold’s Regendering Plan
November 4, 2008
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
California Can Learn Health Care Lessons From Down Under
April 30, 2008
More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
March 31, 2008
California Health Care Deforminator Model ABX1 1: A Requiem
March 13, 2008
What Now for California Health Care?
February 13, 2008
Environment
Read new study from Washington Policy Center and PRI
Policy Brief: The impact of California’s Proposition 12 in increasing national production costs and food prices
December 13, 2023
NEW PRI REPORT FINDS
State Will Fall 21.1 Percent Short of Power Needed to Meet 2045 EV Mandate
June 8, 2023
CAPITAL IDEAS: The ‘Nuclear Option’ To Get Rid of Cars
October 17, 2022
Policy To-Do Lists
October 6, 2022
CAPITAL IDEAS: When June Gloom Lasts All Year
June 20, 2022
California Should Embrace Nuclear in Race to Meet All Renewables Mandate
February 28, 2022
CAPITAL IDEAS: California Gets Kicked by Drought 66
November 16, 2021
CAPITAL IDEAS: The War on Plastics: The Narrative Must Be Fed
October 12, 2020
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Electric Car Future to Nowhere
October 1, 2019
CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Recent History of Manipulative Taxation
January 16, 2019
Recent Writings on California’s Water Future
March 6, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Court Should Pave Way for State to Plan for Next Drought
December 17, 2017
CAPITAL IDEAS: Reforming California’s Environmental Policies
August 17, 2016
Readings from the PRI Water Conference
June 20, 2016
Impact Magazine — Summer 2015
August 10, 2015
PRI’s California Prosperity Agenda
May 26, 2015
The Regressive Impact on Ohio’s Families from EPA’s Proposed Regulations
December 10, 2014
Quarterly Impact 2014: PRI on the Environment
December 4, 2014
Plan Bay Area: The Mayor’s Transportation Task Force Report
October 21, 2014
50 State Index Of Energy Regulation
August 7, 2014
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
November 12, 2013
Obama’s Green Team
June 7, 2013
2013 Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Almanac
April 16, 2013
Next-Gen Education
January 9, 2013
Deep Reform, Not Window Dressing, for a Cooler, Cleaner California
December 9, 2012
The Crusade Against Plastic Bags
November 30, 2012
Demography Is Still Not Destiny
November 29, 2010
Lessons from Florida for California’s New Legislators
November 10, 2010
Is Your Food Making the Planet Sick?
November 2, 2010
The Federal Government Can Never “Fix” the “Doc Fix”
June 8, 2010
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
December 10, 2009
The Way in Which We Produce Our Food
November 17, 2009
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
October 29, 2009
Big Brother Wants Your Compost – Or Else
September 17, 2009
Climate Modeling is Far From a Precise Science
August 18, 2009
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report
April 16, 2009
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
August 19, 2008
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report
April 9, 2008
Free Cities
New Free Cities Book
Reforms to Increase Affordability, Homebuilding Would Go Far to Alleviate State’s Housing, Homeless Crises
January 31, 2024
NEW BOOK RELEASE
Latin America’s Experience Shows How Markets Can Help Urban America Overcome Government-Created Problems
November 13, 2023
NEW FREE CITIES REPORT
New ‘Free Cities Index’ Ranks America’s Best and Worst Pro-Growth Cities
September 5, 2023
New PRI Book Release
State Planners Focus Too Much on Social Engineering Rather Than Transportation Engineering
May 24, 2023
NEW BOOK RELEASE – Back from Dystopia: A New Vision for Western Cities
September 27, 2022
Recent Writings on California’s Water Future
March 6, 2018
CAPITAL IDEAS: Governor Brown Ignores State’s Poverty Crisis
February 7, 2018