Commentary
Commentary
Tax-credit scholarships could ease school funding burden
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed freezing $475 million in education spending to help shrink New Jersey’s $2.2 billion budget deficit, focusing on school districts with budget surpluses. (“Deep budget cuts carry economic risk for N.J.,” Feb. 14.) This plan raises concerns about punishing fiscally responsible school districts. It also raises ...
Commentary
Congress Should Not Pre-Empt State Antitrust Regulation of Health Insurance
Claiming that health insurers are uniquely exempt from antitrust laws is misleading in more than one way. In fact, federal law ensures that state antitrust and other consumer-protection laws dominate the field of insurance regulation. And this goes for all lines of insurance, not just health insurance. The law that ...
Commentary
Let’s Make a Deal
Another possibility, more congenial to conservatives, would be a coverage expansion that follows an explicitly free-market blueprint, but thats funded at a rate that makes Democrats feel comfortable. Writing in The Weekly Standard, for instance, Jeffrey H. Anderson has proposed covering an extra 10 million Americans with a mixture of ...
Business & Economics
Insurance czar’s cheap political ploy
One of the best ways to evaluate the merits of any politicians’ proposed new rule or power grab is to first consider whether it’s something you would support if your political foes were in power. Unfortunately, Republican Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner apparently hasn’t employed that (or any other) common-sense test ...
Commentary
Republicans Must ‘Medal’ at Health Care Summit
Jeffrey Anderson, director of the Benjamin Rush Society, offers a template for a Republican health care proposal in the latest edition of The Weekly Standard. He calls his suggestion The Small Bill and indeed it is a one-page product (admittedly in fairly small type) of seven points aimed at ...
Charter Schools
Performance Not Population: Why Charter Schools are an Educational and Civil Rights Solution
Last week researchers at UCLAs Civil Rights Project released Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards. The authors contend that charter schools are more racially segregated than traditional public schools and that charter schools therefore represent a civil rights problem and should be shut ...
Commentary
Debate: Health Care Reform
Every member of our society is impacted by the quality, accessibility or affordability of health care in the United States. In 2007, U.S. Census figures estimated that over 22% of the population (69 million people) were either uninsured or underinsured. Is health care a right? Who should pay for it? ...
Commentary
Starting Over on Health Reform
President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
Commentary
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
Business & Economics
Rep. Issa: Was Obama ‘Just Lying to Congress’ on Tort Reform Pledge?
Health care spending consumes 17 percent of the economy, or about $2.5 trillion, and is projected to reach $4.7 trillion by 2019. The committee report contends that putting some restraints on medical malpractice lawsuits will reign in medical costs. It is estimated that these additional liability-based medical care costs adds ...
Tax-credit scholarships could ease school funding burden
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed freezing $475 million in education spending to help shrink New Jersey’s $2.2 billion budget deficit, focusing on school districts with budget surpluses. (“Deep budget cuts carry economic risk for N.J.,” Feb. 14.) This plan raises concerns about punishing fiscally responsible school districts. It also raises ...
Congress Should Not Pre-Empt State Antitrust Regulation of Health Insurance
Claiming that health insurers are uniquely exempt from antitrust laws is misleading in more than one way. In fact, federal law ensures that state antitrust and other consumer-protection laws dominate the field of insurance regulation. And this goes for all lines of insurance, not just health insurance. The law that ...
Let’s Make a Deal
Another possibility, more congenial to conservatives, would be a coverage expansion that follows an explicitly free-market blueprint, but thats funded at a rate that makes Democrats feel comfortable. Writing in The Weekly Standard, for instance, Jeffrey H. Anderson has proposed covering an extra 10 million Americans with a mixture of ...
Insurance czar’s cheap political ploy
One of the best ways to evaluate the merits of any politicians’ proposed new rule or power grab is to first consider whether it’s something you would support if your political foes were in power. Unfortunately, Republican Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner apparently hasn’t employed that (or any other) common-sense test ...
Republicans Must ‘Medal’ at Health Care Summit
Jeffrey Anderson, director of the Benjamin Rush Society, offers a template for a Republican health care proposal in the latest edition of The Weekly Standard. He calls his suggestion The Small Bill and indeed it is a one-page product (admittedly in fairly small type) of seven points aimed at ...
Performance Not Population: Why Charter Schools are an Educational and Civil Rights Solution
Last week researchers at UCLAs Civil Rights Project released Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards. The authors contend that charter schools are more racially segregated than traditional public schools and that charter schools therefore represent a civil rights problem and should be shut ...
Debate: Health Care Reform
Every member of our society is impacted by the quality, accessibility or affordability of health care in the United States. In 2007, U.S. Census figures estimated that over 22% of the population (69 million people) were either uninsured or underinsured. Is health care a right? Who should pay for it? ...
Starting Over on Health Reform
President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform. ...
Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call, February 10, 2010 President Obama has signaled that hed be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent ...
Rep. Issa: Was Obama ‘Just Lying to Congress’ on Tort Reform Pledge?
Health care spending consumes 17 percent of the economy, or about $2.5 trillion, and is projected to reach $4.7 trillion by 2019. The committee report contends that putting some restraints on medical malpractice lawsuits will reign in medical costs. It is estimated that these additional liability-based medical care costs adds ...
