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Dear Friends and Supporters,
With the new administration in the White House, a new political era has started. Supporters of the principles of freedom, opportunity, and limited government harbor deep concerns about what the next few years will bring.
Early indicators are not promising. From President Biden’s promise to expand Medicaid and limit access to short-term health care plans . . . to his nomination of heavy-handed regulators like California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to his cabinet, it seems that the Biden administration will usher in a return to Obama-era policies of higher taxes and increased regulation.
And the thing is, the Pacific Research Institute knows how politicians like Vice President Kamala Harris and HHS Secretary-Designate Becerra work—they’re from California and we’ve been playing defense against their regressive, anti-free market approaches for years.
We are especially concerned about the push for these backwards policies amidst a pandemic when our nation so urgently needs entrepreneurship and innovative solutions to beat COVID and get the economy moving again.
Make no mistake: you and I have our work cut out for us to protect the freedom and ensure the economic prosperity of the country we love. We must make sure that liberty is defended, cultivated, and advanced through policy.
With Inauguration Day behind us, we must redouble our efforts to counter these regressive ideas so we can preserve a free and flourishing society.
Here’s some of what PRI will accomplish, with your help, in the year to come:
- As President Biden attempts to slow-walk America into single-payer health care, PRI’s Center for Health Care will publicize the dangers of “Medicare for All” and promote market-driven, innovative solutions in health care—including the continued expansion of tele-medicine that has thrived during the pandemic. See Sally Pipes' recent Detroit News op-ed, "Biden Officials Threaten To Jumpstart Single-Payer Health Care Systems."
- As the well-funded backlash against charter schools and homeschooling grows (driven, perversely, by the success of alternatives to traditional public school), PRI’s Center for Education will continue to offer policy recommendations and provide support for advocates of educational freedom. See Lance Izumi's latest report, "New and Emerging Obstacles Facing Charter Schools".
- With the Biden Administration beginning to advance its initial policy agenda, PRI will bring together scholars, elected officials, and policy insiders to explore how we can advance free-market policy ideas over the next four years at its third annual “California Ideas in Action” Conference on February 4 and 5. Click here to register for the free, virtual conference.
- As public discourse is warped by increasingly radical censorship and ideological conformity, PRI scholars will continue to produce groundbreaking research and reports in key issue areas that develop market-driven solutions to advance opportunity and prosperity for all.
It's only reasonable that you and I feel grave concern for the future. We understand that freedom is the foundation for human flourishing, and we’ve seen enough to know that much of the Biden agenda threatens people’s freedom.
That’s why your support of PRI is so important this New Year. Your investment in our mission will help PRI advocate for freedom during these next few critical years.
As 2021 dawns, our nation is reeling. Politically, economically, socially. But if we work together, we can make sure that a “can-do” spirit prevails in the United States today—and that our country emerges from the present pandemic and turmoil to realize a brighter, flourishing future.
That’s the promise of PRI. Thank you for being part of that work.
Sincerely,
Sally Pipes
President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy
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