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Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?

Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
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New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue

Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
Commentary

Higher taxes ahead

The Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But is such activism largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump? Robert Miller says the government can create jobs by throwing money at but the question is where do those resources ...
Commentary

Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes

A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Commentary

Health reform plans represent financial malpractice

Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Business & Economics

Uncertainty about government to blame for sluggish job growth

Dear Editor: The U.S. economy shed another 85,000 jobs in December, when most analysts had expected no change or even slight job creation. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for healthcare reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. Ironically, it is the federal government’s policy activism itself ...
Commentary

Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation

President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Commentary

Comprehensive Failure

In yet another interview in connection with a major sporting event—this time, the Super Bowl—President Obama proposed yet another unorthodox manner of addressing a political problem: this time, a bipartisan half-day health care summit on live TV. Why hold such a meeting nearly a year into the health care debate? ...
Commentary

White House, Allies Turn to Reconciliation

Health Care News (Heartland Institute), February 22, 2010 The White House and its allies are seeking ways to regroup and pass a new version of government-run health care proposed by President Obama, even preparing to resort to the reconciliation process since no reform package is likely to pass through traditional ...
Business & Economics

Uncertainty about government creates sluggishness

The economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, to the surprise of most analysts. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But such activism is largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump. Some politicians speak of “creating jobs” ...
Health Care

Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?

Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
Health Care

New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue

Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
Commentary

Higher taxes ahead

The Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But is such activism largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump? Robert Miller says the government can create jobs by throwing money at but the question is where do those resources ...
Commentary

Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes

A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Commentary

Health reform plans represent financial malpractice

Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Business & Economics

Uncertainty about government to blame for sluggish job growth

Dear Editor: The U.S. economy shed another 85,000 jobs in December, when most analysts had expected no change or even slight job creation. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for healthcare reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. Ironically, it is the federal government’s policy activism itself ...
Commentary

Obama’s Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation

President Obama this morning released a health care proposal that he will bring as a starting point for the bipartisan health care summit he is hosting Thursday. The plan closely follows the health care reform legislation that the Senate passed in December, but adds a new provision that would give ...
Commentary

Comprehensive Failure

In yet another interview in connection with a major sporting event—this time, the Super Bowl—President Obama proposed yet another unorthodox manner of addressing a political problem: this time, a bipartisan half-day health care summit on live TV. Why hold such a meeting nearly a year into the health care debate? ...
Commentary

White House, Allies Turn to Reconciliation

Health Care News (Heartland Institute), February 22, 2010 The White House and its allies are seeking ways to regroup and pass a new version of government-run health care proposed by President Obama, even preparing to resort to the reconciliation process since no reform package is likely to pass through traditional ...
Business & Economics

Uncertainty about government creates sluggishness

The economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, to the surprise of most analysts. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But such activism is largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump. Some politicians speak of “creating jobs” ...
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