New Issue Brief: Biopharma Drug Makers Are Not the Most Profitable Players in Health Care
Pacific Research Institute
January 21, 2026
A new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute finds that innovative drug manufacturers earn some of the lowest risk-adjusted returns in the U.S. health care system, despite making the ...
Watch PRI’s interview with Rick Caruso – one year after the wildfires
Pacific Research Institute
January 7, 2026
In this special Free Cities Center interview, Rick Caruso – founder and executive chairman of Caruso, longtime civic and philanthropic leader in Los Angeles and former mayor candidate – discusses LA’s rebuilding efforts one year after the wildfires. He shares ...
ISSUE BRIEF: Government Policy Is Consolidating the Practice of Medicine
Wayne Winegarden
February 10, 2026
A new issue brief released today by the Pacific Research Institute—the California-based, nonpartisan, free market think tank—finds that certain states’ efforts to tighten corporate practice of medicine laws hurt independent physicians, empower hospitals to consolidate local provider markets, and raise ...
The Gordon Chang Report–Arctic: The Next Cold War
Gordon Chang
February 10, 2026
READ THE PDF Arctic: The Next Cold War “You have Russian destroyers and submarines and China destroyers and submarines all over the place,” President Donald Trump said in January, referring to the Arctic. Hostile powers are just about everywhere at ...
Facing Medicaid Fraud Allegations, California Changes The Subject
Sally C. Pipes
February 9, 2026
Dr. Mehmet Oz has been raising a stir over what he claims is rampant Medicaid fraud. The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alleges that California has spent an estimated $1.3 billion in federal funds providing coverage ...
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Alexis Wilkins Interview Of Sally Pipes
PRI’s Sally Pipes discusses health care policy and the threat of single payer with podcast host Alexis Wilkins. Listen to the entire podcast here.
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