Commentary
California
California Health Insurance Rescissions: Doctors Dissatisfied
(My last post on a long trail of posts about the history of the California rescissions noted that Insurance Commissioner Poizner seems to have learned that some people actually do lie on their health-insurance applications.) Organized medicine’s beef with the settlement is that it does not guarantee that doctors be ...
Commentary
Making Digital Textbooks a New Chapter in School Choice
he digital books are standards-aligned and may be viewed on a big screen or a computer, downloaded, or printed for classroom use so schools can take advantage of them using existing hardware – even if they do not have laptops for students. This week the Governor released the results from ...
Commentary
‘Bonding’ or ‘Fining’ the Uninsured Is a Tax Hike
This is, to some degree, a distraction from the debate over health reform, because uncompensated care is not a significant driver of health spending. It may account for one percent of spending, or 3 percent if you want to take the most extreme, outlying, estimate that might be credible if ...
Business & Economics
Huyen de California por crisis
En los últimos cinco años el estado ha perdido un millón de personas, según estudio de expertos. Incluso si usted no es una de las 550 personas que, en promedio, abandona cada día California en busca de un destino más prometedor, es muy posible que haya dudado últimamente sobre las ...
Business & Economics
Study: Colorado 11th in state ‘economic performance’
Colorado ranks 11th best among the states in an evaluation of economic performance by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank. The report, issued Tuesday, rates the states using a variety of yardsticks, including gross domestic product, disposable income, private-sector job growth, the poverty and unemployment rates, and in- ...
Business & Economics
California ranks low in labor
It’s commonplace for civic leaders to badmouth the way the state treats small businesses, but now they have something to backup the claims: A research group recently ranked California 48th in the nation in labor performance. The Pacific Research Institute on Wednesday released “California Prosperity: Assessing the State of the ...
Business & Economics
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
Commentary
Co-op Confusion
Not that there’s anything theoretically wrong with the co-operative in Green Bay, which required state legislation to enable the corporate structure. But why did it need a federal hand-out from day one? If group co-ops are the “natural” form of pooling risk or leveraging purchasing power, why did they not ...
Business & Economics
Report: California’s labor performance ranks 48th
California’s labor performance over the past five years is among the worst in the country, according to research by a San Francisco think tank. The Pacific Research Institute said California ranked better than only Michigan and Mississippi in the think tank’s new study called “California Prosperity: Assessing the State of ...
Commentary
N.Y. Congressman Pushes ‘Medicare-for-all’ on ‘Morning Joe’
‘Morning Joe’ fails to note problems in claim there is no need for private insurers. While the uproar over a government-run public option continues in Washington, D.C. and around the country, one Democratic congressman is pushing for an even more drastic “takeover” of health care. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., told ...
California Health Insurance Rescissions: Doctors Dissatisfied
(My last post on a long trail of posts about the history of the California rescissions noted that Insurance Commissioner Poizner seems to have learned that some people actually do lie on their health-insurance applications.) Organized medicine’s beef with the settlement is that it does not guarantee that doctors be ...
Making Digital Textbooks a New Chapter in School Choice
he digital books are standards-aligned and may be viewed on a big screen or a computer, downloaded, or printed for classroom use so schools can take advantage of them using existing hardware – even if they do not have laptops for students. This week the Governor released the results from ...
‘Bonding’ or ‘Fining’ the Uninsured Is a Tax Hike
This is, to some degree, a distraction from the debate over health reform, because uncompensated care is not a significant driver of health spending. It may account for one percent of spending, or 3 percent if you want to take the most extreme, outlying, estimate that might be credible if ...
Huyen de California por crisis
En los últimos cinco años el estado ha perdido un millón de personas, según estudio de expertos. Incluso si usted no es una de las 550 personas que, en promedio, abandona cada día California en busca de un destino más prometedor, es muy posible que haya dudado últimamente sobre las ...
Study: Colorado 11th in state ‘economic performance’
Colorado ranks 11th best among the states in an evaluation of economic performance by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank. The report, issued Tuesday, rates the states using a variety of yardsticks, including gross domestic product, disposable income, private-sector job growth, the poverty and unemployment rates, and in- ...
California ranks low in labor
It’s commonplace for civic leaders to badmouth the way the state treats small businesses, but now they have something to backup the claims: A research group recently ranked California 48th in the nation in labor performance. The Pacific Research Institute on Wednesday released “California Prosperity: Assessing the State of the ...
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
Co-op Confusion
Not that there’s anything theoretically wrong with the co-operative in Green Bay, which required state legislation to enable the corporate structure. But why did it need a federal hand-out from day one? If group co-ops are the “natural” form of pooling risk or leveraging purchasing power, why did they not ...
Report: California’s labor performance ranks 48th
California’s labor performance over the past five years is among the worst in the country, according to research by a San Francisco think tank. The Pacific Research Institute said California ranked better than only Michigan and Mississippi in the think tank’s new study called “California Prosperity: Assessing the State of ...
N.Y. Congressman Pushes ‘Medicare-for-all’ on ‘Morning Joe’
‘Morning Joe’ fails to note problems in claim there is no need for private insurers. While the uproar over a government-run public option continues in Washington, D.C. and around the country, one Democratic congressman is pushing for an even more drastic “takeover” of health care. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., told ...
