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What Do School Tests Measure?

The New York Times, August 4, 2009 According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago. While statewide passing rates on the tests have risen in every ...
Health Care

ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform

Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
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Costs of Medicare/Medicaid Have Outpaced Other Health Costs by 1/3 Since 1970

Ezra Klein has posted a blog criticizing the claim (made by Bill Kristol on the Daily Show Monday night) that the costs of government-run health care have greatly outpaced other health costs. But Klein is mistaken. Advocates of ObamaCare like to rely on studies comparing the cost-increases of government-run care ...
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Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate

Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Business & Economics

Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency

There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
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A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan

That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...
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Did Obama Accomplish Anything With His Health-Care Presser?

As we predicted last night, the biggest news coming out of last night’s prime-time press conference was President Obama’s reaction to the professor Gates arrest. But, as little attention as it’s receiving, for the vast majority of the hour-long health-care presser, Obama was indeed talking about health care. Whether he ...
Health Care

Healthcare is on Hold

President Obama wants a healthcare reform bill passed before the August recess, but it may not happen. Insight with CNBC’s John Harwood, Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute, and Igor Volsky, Center for American Progress health care research/blogger.
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Pacific Research Institute Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership

North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year San Francisco, July 21, 2009 – Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report ...
Health Care

Healthcare Costs?

There are serious concerns not only about the cost of the president’s plan, but also about the quality of healthcare. PRI President and CEO, Sally Pipes, is a guest on the Lou Dobbs Show, as well as Igor Voksky of the Center for American Progress.
Commentary

What Do School Tests Measure?

The New York Times, August 4, 2009 According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago. While statewide passing rates on the tests have risen in every ...
Health Care

ABC 20/20 Takes on Health Care Reform

Government-run healthcare may mean waiting in line for care. John Stossel looks at government-run healthcare in Canada. He interviews PRI’s Sally C. Pipes regarding the proposed legislation currently in Congress and its consequences.
Commentary

Costs of Medicare/Medicaid Have Outpaced Other Health Costs by 1/3 Since 1970

Ezra Klein has posted a blog criticizing the claim (made by Bill Kristol on the Daily Show Monday night) that the costs of government-run health care have greatly outpaced other health costs. But Klein is mistaken. Advocates of ObamaCare like to rely on studies comparing the cost-increases of government-run care ...
Commentary

Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate

Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic. Click here to see PRI’s press coverage ...
Business & Economics

Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency

There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
Commentary

A long, hot August for Obama’s health plan

That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama’s PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks’ worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a ...
Commentary

Did Obama Accomplish Anything With His Health-Care Presser?

As we predicted last night, the biggest news coming out of last night’s prime-time press conference was President Obama’s reaction to the professor Gates arrest. But, as little attention as it’s receiving, for the vast majority of the hour-long health-care presser, Obama was indeed talking about health care. Whether he ...
Health Care

Healthcare is on Hold

President Obama wants a healthcare reform bill passed before the August recess, but it may not happen. Insight with CNBC’s John Harwood, Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute, and Igor Volsky, Center for American Progress health care research/blogger.
Commentary

Pacific Research Institute Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership

North Dakota Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last for the Third Straight Year San Francisco, July 21, 2009 – Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report ...
Health Care

Healthcare Costs?

There are serious concerns not only about the cost of the president’s plan, but also about the quality of healthcare. PRI President and CEO, Sally Pipes, is a guest on the Lou Dobbs Show, as well as Igor Voksky of the Center for American Progress.
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