Pacific Research Institute
Commentary
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
Business & Economics
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
Commentary
What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
Business & Economics
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Health Care
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
Commentary
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Commentary
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Commentary
Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Health Care
Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions
“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Commentary
Obama Lies About Health Care
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care ...
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
What Kind of Health-Care Paternalism Do We Want?
Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway Inc.,shows that companies can use incentives to reduce health costs on a voluntary basis (“How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs,” op-ed, June 12). He wants the federal government to reduce its burdensome regulations on self-insured health plans so that Safeway can charge higher premiums to ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions
“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Obama Lies About Health Care
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
