Studies
Health Care
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
This study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and smaller groups to purchase an entrepreneurs coverage policy free of the benefit mandates imposed by state laws. The study finds that if such plans were offered to the public, enrollment would be about 8 percent ...
Health Care
Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals
San FranciscoThe Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
California
California State News and Investigative Reporting Website
CalWatchdog.com to Report on Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse SacramentoThe Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center has launched a new California state news and investigative reporting website www.CalWatchdog.com. CalWatchdog provides investigative coverage of state government and enterprising news reports that often are overlooked by other mediaespecially in a time of cutbacks ...
Business & Economics
A Woman’s Nation?
The year 2010 has arrived at last, but before proceeding we must clear up some unfinished business. In late 2009, the Center for American Progress published the Shriver Report, named after Maria Shriver, a celebrity and Californias First Lady. The subtitle, A Womans Nation Changes Everything, begs some very important ...
Health Care
The Federal Government’s Regulatory Burden on American Health Care Has Increased By More Than Half in a Decade
Politicians who want to increase the federal governments control of Americans access to medical services under the banner of reform describe the status quo as some kind of Wild West, where nobody has protection against greedy insurers, incompetent doctors, or dangerous hospitals. The facts show otherwise. As I have described ...
Health Care
Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors’ Choices and Taxpayers’ Wallets in the Federal Government’s Largest Entitlement Program
This report by John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies at Pacific Research Institute, examines the costs and benefits of Medicare Advantage, which allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion. ...
Education
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
San Francisco The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors Choices and Taxpayers Wallets in the Federal Governments Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
Agriculture
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
Hows your government treating you lately? I thought so. Unjust wars. Torture. Inflation. Wild spending. Record deficits. Record debt. Bankruptcy. Police brutality. Officious officials. Depression. Its time to get even. Or at least get an explanation. Thats just what you get in Steven Greenhuts shocking Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions ...
Education
Still Not As Good As You Think: 2009 Update on Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. This is an update of Pacific Research Institute’s groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class ...
Health Care
The Advantage of Medicare Advantage: Why Reducing Seniors’ Choices Won’t Protect Taxpayers
Medicare Advantage, in which about one-quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are currently enrolled, is a program that subsidizes beneficiaries’ access to private health insurance. The Pacific Research Institute will shortly publish Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly? a thorough analysis of the costs and benefits of this program for Medicare beneficiaries and ...
Entrepreneurs’ Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform
This study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and smaller groups to purchase an entrepreneurs coverage policy free of the benefit mandates imposed by state laws. The study finds that if such plans were offered to the public, enrollment would be about 8 percent ...
Study Finds that Insurance Coverage Free of Benefit Mandates Would Enroll Nearly 17 million Individuals
San FranciscoThe Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released a new study, Entrepreneurs Coverage: An Alternative Health Policy Reform by Health Care Studies senior policy fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. The study examines the prospective implications of a national public policy allowing individuals, families, and ...
California State News and Investigative Reporting Website
CalWatchdog.com to Report on Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse SacramentoThe Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center has launched a new California state news and investigative reporting website www.CalWatchdog.com. CalWatchdog provides investigative coverage of state government and enterprising news reports that often are overlooked by other mediaespecially in a time of cutbacks ...
A Woman’s Nation?
The year 2010 has arrived at last, but before proceeding we must clear up some unfinished business. In late 2009, the Center for American Progress published the Shriver Report, named after Maria Shriver, a celebrity and Californias First Lady. The subtitle, A Womans Nation Changes Everything, begs some very important ...
The Federal Government’s Regulatory Burden on American Health Care Has Increased By More Than Half in a Decade
Politicians who want to increase the federal governments control of Americans access to medical services under the banner of reform describe the status quo as some kind of Wild West, where nobody has protection against greedy insurers, incompetent doctors, or dangerous hospitals. The facts show otherwise. As I have described ...
Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors’ Choices and Taxpayers’ Wallets in the Federal Government’s Largest Entitlement Program
This report by John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies at Pacific Research Institute, examines the costs and benefits of Medicare Advantage, which allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion. ...
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
San Francisco The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors Choices and Taxpayers Wallets in the Federal Governments Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
Plunder! Dissects Government Unions
Hows your government treating you lately? I thought so. Unjust wars. Torture. Inflation. Wild spending. Record deficits. Record debt. Bankruptcy. Police brutality. Officious officials. Depression. Its time to get even. Or at least get an explanation. Thats just what you get in Steven Greenhuts shocking Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions ...
Still Not As Good As You Think: 2009 Update on Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
In 757 California public schools with predominantly non-disadvantaged, mostly middle-class students, 50 percent or more students in at least one grade level performed below proficient on the 2008 state tests. This is an update of Pacific Research Institute’s groundbreaking book Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class ...
The Advantage of Medicare Advantage: Why Reducing Seniors’ Choices Won’t Protect Taxpayers
Medicare Advantage, in which about one-quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are currently enrolled, is a program that subsidizes beneficiaries’ access to private health insurance. The Pacific Research Institute will shortly publish Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly? a thorough analysis of the costs and benefits of this program for Medicare beneficiaries and ...
