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Commentary
Sen. Wyden Back in the Game: Now We’re Getting Somewhere
Wyden-Bennett is the only Democrat-led bill that removes the tax prejudice against employees buying their own health insurance, instead of being forced meekly to accept whatever their HR managers chose for them. Wyden-Bennett has its problems. The most important one is that it proposes both an individual and employer “pay ...
Commentary
My Life’s Work and Passion
Army-Ed Space, September 17, 2009 Dr. Lance Izumi President, California Community Colleges Board of Governors September, 17th 2009 Education is my life’s work and passion. I’ve spent 20 years in the field – though a lawyer by training, I became fascinated with education issues while serving as a speechwriter for ...
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Government must promote, not reduce, ‘ownership’
Would-be health reformers in Congress are taking much of their inspiration from reform experiments conducted in the states. Unfortunately, they have seized on the worst ideas the states have to offer. Congressional Democrats are dead set on adopting the rules from states where the hand of government is heaviest and ...
Commentary
Someone Please tell the President: It’s Been Illegal to Drop Coverage Since 1997
In fact, these protections have existed in federal law since 1997. Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR § 148.122) is about “guaranteed renewability of individual health insurance coverage.” Paragraphs (a) and (b) read as follows: (a) Applicability. This section applies to all health insurance coverage in ...
Commentary
Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
Business & Economics
Poizner says he’ll increase state revenue by cutting California’s tax rates
Despite projections that the next governor will inherit multibillion-dollar deficits, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner on Tuesday promised to slash taxes on personal income, corporations and sales. Poizner said that as part of his “Jobs Plan,” he would reduce those rates by one-tenth, as well as cut capital gains taxes ...
Commentary
Paving the Road with Moderation
Without the individual mandate, insurance “reform” — no constraints on coverage created by pre-existing medical conditions, and a necessary corollary, price controls in health coverage — would be hugely popular politically. But those two policies would yield a rapid destruction of the private insurance market (for nonemployer policies) because of ...
Commentary
Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden
In socialist Sweden, universal school choice allows every parent to choose the best school for their child. The voucher program, which has been in effect since 1992 and was created to tackle the kind of problems plaguing the U.S. educational system, provides families with the opportunity to send their child ...
Climate Change
A War on CO2? Civil Libertarians, Beware!
It seems clear that the first major penalty man will have to pay for his rapid consumption of the earth’s nonrenewable resources will be that of having to live in a world where his thoughts and actions are ever more strongly limited, where social organization has become all pervasive, complex, ...
Business & Economics
Experts weigh in on Obama economic speech
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — On the anniversary of a financial meltdown that brought Wall Street to its knees, President Barack Obama unveiled a plan he says will keep it from happening again. President Obama began by praising his economic team and his $787 billion stimulus package. “While full recovery of ...
Sen. Wyden Back in the Game: Now We’re Getting Somewhere
Wyden-Bennett is the only Democrat-led bill that removes the tax prejudice against employees buying their own health insurance, instead of being forced meekly to accept whatever their HR managers chose for them. Wyden-Bennett has its problems. The most important one is that it proposes both an individual and employer “pay ...
My Life’s Work and Passion
Army-Ed Space, September 17, 2009 Dr. Lance Izumi President, California Community Colleges Board of Governors September, 17th 2009 Education is my life’s work and passion. I’ve spent 20 years in the field – though a lawyer by training, I became fascinated with education issues while serving as a speechwriter for ...
Government must promote, not reduce, ‘ownership’
Would-be health reformers in Congress are taking much of their inspiration from reform experiments conducted in the states. Unfortunately, they have seized on the worst ideas the states have to offer. Congressional Democrats are dead set on adopting the rules from states where the hand of government is heaviest and ...
Someone Please tell the President: It’s Been Illegal to Drop Coverage Since 1997
In fact, these protections have existed in federal law since 1997. Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR § 148.122) is about “guaranteed renewability of individual health insurance coverage.” Paragraphs (a) and (b) read as follows: (a) Applicability. This section applies to all health insurance coverage in ...
Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
Poizner says he’ll increase state revenue by cutting California’s tax rates
Despite projections that the next governor will inherit multibillion-dollar deficits, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner on Tuesday promised to slash taxes on personal income, corporations and sales. Poizner said that as part of his “Jobs Plan,” he would reduce those rates by one-tenth, as well as cut capital gains taxes ...
Paving the Road with Moderation
Without the individual mandate, insurance “reform” — no constraints on coverage created by pre-existing medical conditions, and a necessary corollary, price controls in health coverage — would be hugely popular politically. But those two policies would yield a rapid destruction of the private insurance market (for nonemployer policies) because of ...
Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden
In socialist Sweden, universal school choice allows every parent to choose the best school for their child. The voucher program, which has been in effect since 1992 and was created to tackle the kind of problems plaguing the U.S. educational system, provides families with the opportunity to send their child ...
A War on CO2? Civil Libertarians, Beware!
It seems clear that the first major penalty man will have to pay for his rapid consumption of the earth’s nonrenewable resources will be that of having to live in a world where his thoughts and actions are ever more strongly limited, where social organization has become all pervasive, complex, ...
Experts weigh in on Obama economic speech
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — On the anniversary of a financial meltdown that brought Wall Street to its knees, President Barack Obama unveiled a plan he says will keep it from happening again. President Obama began by praising his economic team and his $787 billion stimulus package. “While full recovery of ...
