Pacific Research Institute

PRI is active in the policy areas of education, economics, health care, the environment, and water supply. It operates the Center for California's Future, which has a goal of "reinvigorating California's entrepreneurial, self-reliant traditions" and the Laffer Center, which is "focused on educating people on free-markets and supply-side economics." From 1996 through 2009, the organization published an annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, which tracked environmental trends worldwide. PRI started the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy. In 2022, PRI president Sally C. Pipes opposed federal efforts to cap copayments at $35 for insulin, and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug. a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election. ==Staff==

Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991. Inspired by Margaret Thatcher, she writes a regular column for Forbes, focusing on health care in the United States. In 2008, she founded the Benjamin Rush Institute as a conservative association for medical students with 20 chapters at medical schools across America. Pipes is originally from Canada and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. She opposes single-payer health care systems. The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a co-founder of the White House Writers Group. == Finances ==

PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according to ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer database. The Lilly Endowment, connected to Eli Lilly and Company, is a donor, contributing $175,000 a year in grants to PRI since 2015, according to The Intercept. ==See also==