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PRI’s Tim Anaya discusses Coronavirus on Commonwealth Club Week to Week Political Roundtable

March 19, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Watch Tim Anaya, PRI's senior director of communications and the Sacramento office, discuss how the political and economic impact of the coronavirus on a special livestream of the Commonwealth Club's "Week to Week" Political Roundtable, moderated by John Zipperer. Other panelists include Dr. Gina Baleria,...

Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus

March 15, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for 'Medicare-for-All' By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had...

PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan

March 02, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6,...

Lance Izumi Featured in Washington Examiner Op-Ed on Unions Targeting Betsy DeVos

March 02, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Unions target Betsy DeVos as she defends children By Rebecca Friedrichs Union bosses have tried to run Education Secretary Betsy DeVos out of office since the day she was nominated. Why? Because DeVos champions education freedom scholarships and reductions to the federal education budget that return control...

Medicare for None

February 10, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

"Medicare for All," were it subjected to truth in labeling criteria, would more accurately be named "Medicare for None." This is a point made early in Sally Pipes's succinct but detailed analysis of the socialized medicine programs offered by Bernie Sanders and other Democratic POTUS candidates. Her book, False...

Sally Pipes Argues Against Medicare For All in Capitol Public Radio Article

February 10, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Single Payer Health Care Is Back On The Table In California By Sammy Caiola Feb. 7, 2020 It’s been a year and one month since California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote to the White House about creating a single-payer health care system for the state. It was his first day in...

Kerry Jackson featured in Free Beacon story on SF Ending Cash Bail

January 24, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

San Francisco D.A. Announces End to Cash Bail By Charles Fain Lehman Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's notoriously progressive district attorney, announced Wednesday that his office will no longer support cash bail, becoming the latest law enforcement figure to come out against the practice. Instead of asking judges to...

Wayne Winegarden in Heartland News Story on CA Solar Roof Mandate

January 23, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

California Solar Home Law Likely to Price Many Out of the Market By Kenneth Artz A new building code in California requires all newly constructed homes statewide to be solar-powered. Tens of thousands of homes will be affected by the first-of-their-kind rules approved in 2018 by the California Energy Commission...

Wayne Winegarden Drug Pricing Study Featured in Healthcare Finance News

January 23, 2020 Pacific Research Institute

Drug supply chain, pricing system reforms will slash healthcare costs, says PRI By Jeff Lagasse As the Trump administration pushes for price caps and government controls to address prescription drug prices, a new issue brief released by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific...

New Book from Health Care Expert Sally Pipes Exposes the Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All

January 07, 2020 Sally C. Pipes

Pacific Research Institute President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes makes the case against single-payer health care and offers a vision for market-based health care reforms in her new book, False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of...

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