Commentary
Business & Economics
San Diego Ruling Could Be First Step To Real Public Pension Reform
Sound judgment, which is too rare in the halls of California officialdom, won a round on Tuesday when the state’s Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that San Diego’s pension cutbacks for city workers were indeed lawful. The case was the appeal of the state Public Employment Relations Board’s 2015 ...
Commentary
Republicans Are The Real Defenders Of Medicaid Patients
Is Obamacare’s survival as of now a victory for the nation’s poor? That’s what the law’s supporters would have people believe. Democrats — and more than a few Republicans — maintain that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to withdraw the American Health Care Act on March 24 has saved millions ...
Commentary
Hospital Impact: In GOP’s Next Stab At Healthcare Reform, It Must Go Back To Basics
Although Congress failed to agree on a plan for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before leaving for Easter recess, the GOP’s healthcare reform effort is hardly over. Republicans looking to avoid the mistakes that brought down their first attempt at reform—the American Health Care Act—would do well to ...
California
Panel Discussion on California’s Housing Crisis
Watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis, held at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Moderated by PRI’s Kerry Jackson, speakers included California Department of Housing and Community Development Ben Metcalf, longtime lobbyist for the California building industry and housing policy expert Tim Coyle of Coyle Consulting, and YLC Member ...
Business & Economics
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
Commentary
The Good, The Bad, And The NICE: A Cautionary Tale For Government Negotiation
One of the cornerstones of Great Britain’s National Health Service is an agency that approves and controls access to prescription drugs, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. NICE recently announced a new policy that could delay and restrict access to new medicines for British citizens if the agency ...
Commentary
By Upholding The Constitution, Trump Can Breathe New Life Into “Repeal and Replace”
Republicans are still smarting from the failure of the American Health Care Act just 10 days ago. Speaker Ryan acknowledged reality when he said in the aftermath of the bills collapse, “Obamacare is the law of the land . . . for the foreseeable future.” “Foreseeable future” need not mean ...
California
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
California
Single Payer Is Fool’s Gold For California
While the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare may have failed, Democrats in California and in D.C. are just getting started in their effort to eliminate the health law. Unfortunately, they’re angling to replace ObamaCare with something even worse. In California, State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins ...
Commentary
How Trump Can Keep The Drive To Repeal Obamacare Alive Through Executive Action
There’s no doubt about it — last week’s failure to pass the American Health Care Act was a painful setback in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. But Obamacare’s critics need not give up. There are plenty of executive actions the Trump administration could take to roll back the ...
San Diego Ruling Could Be First Step To Real Public Pension Reform
Sound judgment, which is too rare in the halls of California officialdom, won a round on Tuesday when the state’s Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that San Diego’s pension cutbacks for city workers were indeed lawful. The case was the appeal of the state Public Employment Relations Board’s 2015 ...
Republicans Are The Real Defenders Of Medicaid Patients
Is Obamacare’s survival as of now a victory for the nation’s poor? That’s what the law’s supporters would have people believe. Democrats — and more than a few Republicans — maintain that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to withdraw the American Health Care Act on March 24 has saved millions ...
Hospital Impact: In GOP’s Next Stab At Healthcare Reform, It Must Go Back To Basics
Although Congress failed to agree on a plan for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before leaving for Easter recess, the GOP’s healthcare reform effort is hardly over. Republicans looking to avoid the mistakes that brought down their first attempt at reform—the American Health Care Act—would do well to ...
Panel Discussion on California’s Housing Crisis
Watch PRI’s panel discussion on California’s housing crisis, held at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Moderated by PRI’s Kerry Jackson, speakers included California Department of Housing and Community Development Ben Metcalf, longtime lobbyist for the California building industry and housing policy expert Tim Coyle of Coyle Consulting, and YLC Member ...
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like ...
The Good, The Bad, And The NICE: A Cautionary Tale For Government Negotiation
One of the cornerstones of Great Britain’s National Health Service is an agency that approves and controls access to prescription drugs, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. NICE recently announced a new policy that could delay and restrict access to new medicines for British citizens if the agency ...
By Upholding The Constitution, Trump Can Breathe New Life Into “Repeal and Replace”
Republicans are still smarting from the failure of the American Health Care Act just 10 days ago. Speaker Ryan acknowledged reality when he said in the aftermath of the bills collapse, “Obamacare is the law of the land . . . for the foreseeable future.” “Foreseeable future” need not mean ...
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
Single Payer Is Fool’s Gold For California
While the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare may have failed, Democrats in California and in D.C. are just getting started in their effort to eliminate the health law. Unfortunately, they’re angling to replace ObamaCare with something even worse. In California, State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins ...
How Trump Can Keep The Drive To Repeal Obamacare Alive Through Executive Action
There’s no doubt about it — last week’s failure to pass the American Health Care Act was a painful setback in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. But Obamacare’s critics need not give up. There are plenty of executive actions the Trump administration could take to roll back the ...
