Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Health Reform Would Bury Small Business
Investor’s Business Daily, November 6, 2009 President Obama recently delivered a special address aimed at quelling small-business owners’ concerns about Democratic plans for health care reform. The legislation, he assured, would “benefit millions of small businesses” and was “being written with the interests of Americans like you and your employees ...
Business & Economics
Government interference in health care not needed
While the U.S. health care system needs reform, it can be done without government involvement, a 5th district U.S. Congressional candidate and doctor told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Dr. Johnny Roy, chief of urology at the Edmond Medical Center, spoke during a public health care forum ...
Business & Economics
Why Feminists Make No Allowance for Women’s Choices
A recent story in the British Daily Telegraph confirms that feminists think they have found a new wage gap in children’s allowances. Echoing several recent studies in the United States and Australia, the UK’s Co-operative Investments Child Trust Fund finds that parents give their sons 10 percent more spending money ...
Business & Economics
Tort Reform Is Key To Health Reform
Though common-sense Americans repeatedly raised the issue of tort reform while discussing health care legislation with members of Congress during town hall meetings this past summer, too many lawmakers and analysts still stubbornly insist that medical liability lawsuits do not contribute significantly to rising health care costs. These lawmakers and ...
Business & Economics
Sneaky way to murder Prop. 13
Easier tax increases and budget approvals seems to be the primary goals of a proposed state constitutional convention. SACRAMENTO — There ain’t no such thing as bipartisan, nondivisive reform. Any real change to California’s dysfunctional political structure and culture must gore somebody’s ox, stir up contentious battles and draw vicious ...
Business & Economics
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
Business & Economics
Lack Of Tort Reform Costing Pennsylvania
As Washington continues debating how to curb health care costs, one area largely ignored is medical malpractice reform. However, ample evidence from states indicates tort reform is central to overhauling the healthcare system. The Pacific Research Institute’s (PRI) 2008 Tort Liability Index ranks states’ tort laws, giving Pennsylvania a lowly ...
Business & Economics
More of a Web world for print journalists
Think-tank Pacific Research Institute has announced it will launch a Sacramento-based investigative reporting Web site in January. The San Francisco-based institute has retained veteran journalist Steven Greenhut, who most recently served as deputy editor and columnist for The Orange County Register, to establish and lead the site, called “CalWatchdog.” Greenhut ...
Business & Economics
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
Epoch Times (New York, New York), October 29, 2009 The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is still being fought out in Congress but according to the Wall Street Journal, several Democrats say they could pass a version of the EFCA this year. On this issue, federal legislators can find guidance ...
Business & Economics
Net Neutrality Fears: Big Telecom or the FCC?
Net netutrality is a case of who you fear most: Evil telecom companies or the evil FCC? Companies are unlikely to behave without the threat of FCC action, but if the FCC acts we may wish that it hadn’t. It is a tough issue for the technology and venture capital ...
Health Reform Would Bury Small Business
Investor’s Business Daily, November 6, 2009 President Obama recently delivered a special address aimed at quelling small-business owners’ concerns about Democratic plans for health care reform. The legislation, he assured, would “benefit millions of small businesses” and was “being written with the interests of Americans like you and your employees ...
Government interference in health care not needed
While the U.S. health care system needs reform, it can be done without government involvement, a 5th district U.S. Congressional candidate and doctor told an audience Tuesday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Dr. Johnny Roy, chief of urology at the Edmond Medical Center, spoke during a public health care forum ...
Why Feminists Make No Allowance for Women’s Choices
A recent story in the British Daily Telegraph confirms that feminists think they have found a new wage gap in children’s allowances. Echoing several recent studies in the United States and Australia, the UK’s Co-operative Investments Child Trust Fund finds that parents give their sons 10 percent more spending money ...
Tort Reform Is Key To Health Reform
Though common-sense Americans repeatedly raised the issue of tort reform while discussing health care legislation with members of Congress during town hall meetings this past summer, too many lawmakers and analysts still stubbornly insist that medical liability lawsuits do not contribute significantly to rising health care costs. These lawmakers and ...
Sneaky way to murder Prop. 13
Easier tax increases and budget approvals seems to be the primary goals of a proposed state constitutional convention. SACRAMENTO — There ain’t no such thing as bipartisan, nondivisive reform. Any real change to California’s dysfunctional political structure and culture must gore somebody’s ox, stir up contentious battles and draw vicious ...
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
Lack Of Tort Reform Costing Pennsylvania
As Washington continues debating how to curb health care costs, one area largely ignored is medical malpractice reform. However, ample evidence from states indicates tort reform is central to overhauling the healthcare system. The Pacific Research Institute’s (PRI) 2008 Tort Liability Index ranks states’ tort laws, giving Pennsylvania a lowly ...
More of a Web world for print journalists
Think-tank Pacific Research Institute has announced it will launch a Sacramento-based investigative reporting Web site in January. The San Francisco-based institute has retained veteran journalist Steven Greenhut, who most recently served as deputy editor and columnist for The Orange County Register, to establish and lead the site, called “CalWatchdog.” Greenhut ...
California and Canada Provide Guidance on Card-Check Legislation
Epoch Times (New York, New York), October 29, 2009 The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is still being fought out in Congress but according to the Wall Street Journal, several Democrats say they could pass a version of the EFCA this year. On this issue, federal legislators can find guidance ...
Net Neutrality Fears: Big Telecom or the FCC?
Net netutrality is a case of who you fear most: Evil telecom companies or the evil FCC? Companies are unlikely to behave without the threat of FCC action, but if the FCC acts we may wish that it hadn’t. It is a tough issue for the technology and venture capital ...
