The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a

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which promotes "the principles of

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and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and

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. PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher. Sally Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991. She writes a regular column for

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, 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. She is originally from

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and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. She opposes single-payer health care systems.

Policy areas

The organization 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 The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) is a non-profit medical issues research group. It was founded by the "free-market think tank" Pacific Research Institute. CMPI's research agenda deals with clinical outcomes and econometric stu ...

, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy. In 2022, Pipes opposed federal efforts to cap copayments at $35 for

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, and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug.

Finances

PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according to ''

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, connected to

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, is a significant donor, contributing $175,000 a year in grants to PRI since 2015, according to ''

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''.

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