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Health Care

Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals

San Francisco—The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
Charter Schools

Is there a Need for Charter Schools in Nebraska?

The Platte Institute held a press conference at the State Capitol Wednesday to release a study that outlines a need for Charter Schools in Nebraska. Nebraska’s lack of legislation for allowing charter schools in the state is holding back the quality of education in Nebraska. Platte Institute Executive Director John ...
Commentary

Money before unions

Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
California

California State News and Investigative Reporting Website

—CalWatchdog.com to Report on Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse— Sacramento—The Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center has launched a new California state news and investigative reporting website www.CalWatchdog.com. CalWatchdog provides investigative coverage of state government and enterprising news reports that often are overlooked by other media—especially in a time of cutbacks ...
Commentary

Health reform: Pluses, minuses

Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
Business & Economics

Pension tapeworm gnaws at budgets

A Register investigation reported Sunday that lucrative public employee pension benefits approved during the past decade have been “a toxin spreading through the budget books of cities and counties across California.” These escalating costs ultimately threaten many local governments’ solvency. Though many states experience similar fiscal threats, “California is the ...
Commentary

Freeze global warming regulations

Coming from Hollywood may explain Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s disconnect with reality. In the real world, saying so doesn’t make it so. In Copenhagen this week, he made the astonishing claim that the Golden State is evidence we need not choose between a clean environment and economic growth because: “We’ve proved ...
Education

New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans

San Francisco – The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors’ Choices and Taxpayers’ Wallets in the Federal Government’s Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
Commentary

How Much Will Health Reform Cost?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In “Can We Afford It?” (editorial, Dec. 13), you remark that Republican critics oppose the currently proposed health care reform on the grounds that the nation cannot afford to add this new trillion-dollar entitlement in tough economic times. Here we should recall that in 2003, barely ...
Business & Economics

CSPAN TV: Steven Greenhut talks about his book “Plunder!”

Steven Greenhut talked about his book Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Orange County, CA on December 10, 2009. Scroll frame to right to view video.
Health Care

Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals

San Francisco—The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
Charter Schools

Is there a Need for Charter Schools in Nebraska?

The Platte Institute held a press conference at the State Capitol Wednesday to release a study that outlines a need for Charter Schools in Nebraska. Nebraska’s lack of legislation for allowing charter schools in the state is holding back the quality of education in Nebraska. Platte Institute Executive Director John ...
Commentary

Money before unions

Orange County Register, January 7, 2010 blog.abwre.com, January 10, 2010 Sacramento legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger may have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments in California politics: bucking the teachers unions. The Assembly passed a package of education bills Tuesday that give parents more authority to move their children out ...
California

California State News and Investigative Reporting Website

—CalWatchdog.com to Report on Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse— Sacramento—The Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center has launched a new California state news and investigative reporting website www.CalWatchdog.com. CalWatchdog provides investigative coverage of state government and enterprising news reports that often are overlooked by other media—especially in a time of cutbacks ...
Commentary

Health reform: Pluses, minuses

Opinionline: What people are saying about health debate The New York Times, in an editorial: “The health care reform bill that Senate Democratic leaders have cobbled together to win support from all 60 members, … has drawn scornful attacks from a united Republican opposition. … The bill … has some ...
Business & Economics

Pension tapeworm gnaws at budgets

A Register investigation reported Sunday that lucrative public employee pension benefits approved during the past decade have been “a toxin spreading through the budget books of cities and counties across California.” These escalating costs ultimately threaten many local governments’ solvency. Though many states experience similar fiscal threats, “California is the ...
Commentary

Freeze global warming regulations

Coming from Hollywood may explain Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s disconnect with reality. In the real world, saying so doesn’t make it so. In Copenhagen this week, he made the astonishing claim that the Golden State is evidence we need not choose between a clean environment and economic growth because: “We’ve proved ...
Education

New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans

San Francisco – The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors’ Choices and Taxpayers’ Wallets in the Federal Government’s Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
Commentary

How Much Will Health Reform Cost?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In “Can We Afford It?” (editorial, Dec. 13), you remark that Republican critics oppose the currently proposed health care reform on the grounds that the nation cannot afford to add this new trillion-dollar entitlement in tough economic times. Here we should recall that in 2003, barely ...
Business & Economics

CSPAN TV: Steven Greenhut talks about his book “Plunder!”

Steven Greenhut talked about his book Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Orange County, CA on December 10, 2009. Scroll frame to right to view video.
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