California
Commentary
Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
California
Lance Izumi on the Teacher Tenure Lawsuit
Lance Izumi of the Pacific Research Institute talks about the teacher tenure lawsuit in California. Listen to podcast here… Lance T. Izumi is president of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation with 2.8 million students. Mr. Izumi is ...
Business & Economics
Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
Municipalities have rarely defaulted on their debt. As a consequence, municipal debt is regarded as having an extremely low risk for investors. There are disconcerting trends developing that may change this historical view. The combination of the weak U.S. economy, high municipal debt levels, and large under-funded pension liabilities coupled ...
California
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
Commentary
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
California
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
Commentary
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary
ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Lance Izumi on the Teacher Tenure Lawsuit
Lance Izumi of the Pacific Research Institute talks about the teacher tenure lawsuit in California. Listen to podcast here… Lance T. Izumi is president of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation with 2.8 million students. Mr. Izumi is ...
Going Broke One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies in America
Municipalities have rarely defaulted on their debt. As a consequence, municipal debt is regarded as having an extremely low risk for investors. There are disconcerting trends developing that may change this historical view. The combination of the weak U.S. economy, high municipal debt levels, and large under-funded pension liabilities coupled ...
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?
When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
