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Book Calls for Advancement Through Disruption

Review of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, by Clayton M. Christensen with Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson (New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2008), 288 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 0071592067 / 9780071592062, $32.95 This book offers brilliant insights into the United States’ education woes—and ...
Business & Economics

Opinion: The Crisis That Went to Waste

(Jan. 26) – “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That’s what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008 to justify the incoming administration’s bold policy proposals including, especially, health care reform. In one sense, Emanuel was right. Generally speaking, in times of ...
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Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation

The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
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Fixing America: Health Reform

Second in a three-part series on Fixing America Health reform is not dead. There are bipartisan ideas out there to fix it. And that means to enact reform, the only route out is the bipartisan way. First Some Common Sense It is time elected officials stop pursuing an agenda that ...
California

California Focus: ‘Race to the Top’ won’t get there

Orange County Register, January 26, 2010 As California and other states scramble for shares of Barack Obama’s $4 billion pot of “Race to the Top” education funds, it’s easy to overlook the recent dagger to the heart dealt by the president and the Democratic-controlled Congress to the successful and popular ...
Business & Economics

The Entrepreneur’s Insurance

The Pacific Research Institute has a new report that sketches out what the U.S. would be were people free to buy what it calls “entrepreneurs’ coverage” for health insurance, otherwise disparagingly known as “bare bones coverage.” Such policies don’t have the requirements (payments for chiropractors, marriage counselors, pregnancy benefits for ...
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Brezhnev Lives!

Ah, California. Sunshine. The seashore. Beautiful women. Recreation galore. America’s breadbasket. The crossroads of the world, with myriad cultures and cuisines. Unparalleled resources and the great outdoors. And the land of the free lunch, delivered by the beneficent political class in Sacramento, the generosity of which knows no bounds as ...
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‘Extending the Life of Medicare’? Good Luck with That

White House adviser David Axelrod told ABC News that the president wants to focus on “extending the life of Medicare” through cutting payments to providers. Good luck with that. As I’ve written before in NRO’s Critical Condition, and described in excruciating detail in a recently published study, elderly Americans are ...
Business & Economics

ANOTHER VIEW: Gilbert Arenas, guns and government

North County Times, January 24, 2010 The National Basketball Association is in the spotlight for an incident involving guns and taking heat from some observers. The way the NBA has dealt with the incident, however, forms a stark contrast to the way government deals with cases of misconduct, even those ...
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Cost Containment That Relies on Less Government Power, Not More

On January 20, New York Times quoted President Obama, trying to rescue his health bill, stressing the need for “some kind of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up…” Ironically, if the President had read an adjourning article in the same newspaper he ...
Commentary

Book Calls for Advancement Through Disruption

Review of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, by Clayton M. Christensen with Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson (New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2008), 288 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 0071592067 / 9780071592062, $32.95 This book offers brilliant insights into the United States’ education woes—and ...
Business & Economics

Opinion: The Crisis That Went to Waste

(Jan. 26) – “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That’s what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008 to justify the incoming administration’s bold policy proposals including, especially, health care reform. In one sense, Emanuel was right. Generally speaking, in times of ...
Commentary

Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation

The Institute for International Research presented “Assessing the Impact of Healthcare Reform on Payment, Reimbursement and Innovation” with futurist Ian Morrison, and Sally C. Pipes, Pacific Research Institute.
Commentary

Fixing America: Health Reform

Second in a three-part series on Fixing America Health reform is not dead. There are bipartisan ideas out there to fix it. And that means to enact reform, the only route out is the bipartisan way. First Some Common Sense It is time elected officials stop pursuing an agenda that ...
California

California Focus: ‘Race to the Top’ won’t get there

Orange County Register, January 26, 2010 As California and other states scramble for shares of Barack Obama’s $4 billion pot of “Race to the Top” education funds, it’s easy to overlook the recent dagger to the heart dealt by the president and the Democratic-controlled Congress to the successful and popular ...
Business & Economics

The Entrepreneur’s Insurance

The Pacific Research Institute has a new report that sketches out what the U.S. would be were people free to buy what it calls “entrepreneurs’ coverage” for health insurance, otherwise disparagingly known as “bare bones coverage.” Such policies don’t have the requirements (payments for chiropractors, marriage counselors, pregnancy benefits for ...
Commentary

Brezhnev Lives!

Ah, California. Sunshine. The seashore. Beautiful women. Recreation galore. America’s breadbasket. The crossroads of the world, with myriad cultures and cuisines. Unparalleled resources and the great outdoors. And the land of the free lunch, delivered by the beneficent political class in Sacramento, the generosity of which knows no bounds as ...
Commentary

‘Extending the Life of Medicare’? Good Luck with That

White House adviser David Axelrod told ABC News that the president wants to focus on “extending the life of Medicare” through cutting payments to providers. Good luck with that. As I’ve written before in NRO’s Critical Condition, and described in excruciating detail in a recently published study, elderly Americans are ...
Business & Economics

ANOTHER VIEW: Gilbert Arenas, guns and government

North County Times, January 24, 2010 The National Basketball Association is in the spotlight for an incident involving guns and taking heat from some observers. The way the NBA has dealt with the incident, however, forms a stark contrast to the way government deals with cases of misconduct, even those ...
Commentary

Cost Containment That Relies on Less Government Power, Not More

On January 20, New York Times quoted President Obama, trying to rescue his health bill, stressing the need for “some kind of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up…” Ironically, if the President had read an adjourning article in the same newspaper he ...
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