Commentary
Business & Economics
Californians Deserve Value For Their Tax Dollars
Last week’s election, ushering in Jerry Brown as Governor-elect and changing passage of the state budget from two-thirds to a majority vote, will impact how legislators reconcile California’s budget deficit. Missing in the debate between higher taxes and less spending is whether current spending provides Californians value for their money. ...
Commentary
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
California
ObamaCare to debut in Calif. – will it fly?
An expert on healthcare policy thinks ObamaCare must fail in at least one state at taxpayers’ expense before Democrats realize it won’t work. California will lead the nation in implementing the new healthcare law with a $10-billion plan, approved by the Obama administration, to grant citizens Medicaid waivers. The new ...
Business & Economics
Voting against jobs in California
Buried under the political headlines in California, which largely focus on Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial victory, Barbara Boxer’s winning a fourth Senate term and the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, lie two ballot decisions that will have serious long-lasting consequences for the California economy. The first is the rejection ...
Commentary
It’s time to start dismantling Obamacare
Last week, voters nationwide delivered a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s big-government vision for the country. A primary reason for the “shellacking,” as the president termed the Democrats’ defeat, was Americans’ disgust with the new health reform law. Indeed, a Rasmussen poll released on Election Day found that 58 percent ...
Commentary
Federal lawsuit against BCBSM illustrates Obamacare’s hypocrisy
The new federal health care legislation promotes consolidation among providers and insurers, yet its advocates touted their desire to reduce costs. DOJ says BCBSM’s use of MFNs has reduced competition in the sale of health insurance in markets throughout Michigan by inhibiting hospitals from negotiating competitive contracts with Blue Cross ...
Business & Economics
State GOP verging on irrelevant
Republicans have been amused by President Barack Obama’s thick-headed response to the Democratic Party’s electoral defeat. Despite near-historic gains for the GOP in the House of Representatives and significant GOP gains in the Senate and statehouses, Obama refused in his news conference Wednesday to pin the blame on his agenda, ...
Commentary
San Francisco Bans Happy Meals for Kids
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Commentary
School Choice on Trial
School choice plans are proliferating around the nation, and today the Supreme Court will hear a case that could stop them cold on dubious legal grounds. In Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, the question is whether a scholarship tax credit program that has operated in Arizona since 1997 ...
Commentary
Election Gives States Momentum to Defeat Obamacare
Yesterday’s election resulted in a resounding setback for Obamacare. The federal government takeover of Americans’ access to medical services will suffer significant setbacks in the new Congress. While Congress works towards repeal, states have to choose whether to enable or obstruct Obamacare, which will further pummel states’ fiscal situations. If ...
Californians Deserve Value For Their Tax Dollars
Last week’s election, ushering in Jerry Brown as Governor-elect and changing passage of the state budget from two-thirds to a majority vote, will impact how legislators reconcile California’s budget deficit. Missing in the debate between higher taxes and less spending is whether current spending provides Californians value for their money. ...
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
ObamaCare to debut in Calif. – will it fly?
An expert on healthcare policy thinks ObamaCare must fail in at least one state at taxpayers’ expense before Democrats realize it won’t work. California will lead the nation in implementing the new healthcare law with a $10-billion plan, approved by the Obama administration, to grant citizens Medicaid waivers. The new ...
Voting against jobs in California
Buried under the political headlines in California, which largely focus on Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial victory, Barbara Boxer’s winning a fourth Senate term and the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, lie two ballot decisions that will have serious long-lasting consequences for the California economy. The first is the rejection ...
It’s time to start dismantling Obamacare
Last week, voters nationwide delivered a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s big-government vision for the country. A primary reason for the “shellacking,” as the president termed the Democrats’ defeat, was Americans’ disgust with the new health reform law. Indeed, a Rasmussen poll released on Election Day found that 58 percent ...
Federal lawsuit against BCBSM illustrates Obamacare’s hypocrisy
The new federal health care legislation promotes consolidation among providers and insurers, yet its advocates touted their desire to reduce costs. DOJ says BCBSM’s use of MFNs has reduced competition in the sale of health insurance in markets throughout Michigan by inhibiting hospitals from negotiating competitive contracts with Blue Cross ...
State GOP verging on irrelevant
Republicans have been amused by President Barack Obama’s thick-headed response to the Democratic Party’s electoral defeat. Despite near-historic gains for the GOP in the House of Representatives and significant GOP gains in the Senate and statehouses, Obama refused in his news conference Wednesday to pin the blame on his agenda, ...
San Francisco Bans Happy Meals for Kids
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School Choice on Trial
School choice plans are proliferating around the nation, and today the Supreme Court will hear a case that could stop them cold on dubious legal grounds. In Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, the question is whether a scholarship tax credit program that has operated in Arizona since 1997 ...
Election Gives States Momentum to Defeat Obamacare
Yesterday’s election resulted in a resounding setback for Obamacare. The federal government takeover of Americans’ access to medical services will suffer significant setbacks in the new Congress. While Congress works towards repeal, states have to choose whether to enable or obstruct Obamacare, which will further pummel states’ fiscal situations. If ...
