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U.S. Index of Health Ownership 2nd Edition Is Here

Alabama up, Utah down, New York still in the basement: Where’s your state? Pacific Research Instite has published the 2nd edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only ranking of health care in the states that uses criteria of individual choice. Americans lack the basic freedom to make ...
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National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership

National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership Alabama Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last San Francisco-Americans lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research ...
Health Care

2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership

National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership Alabama Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last San Francisco-Americans lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research ...
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Nursing Home Evictions: Another Problem of Government Dependency

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran a feature article about nursing homes evicting frail residents. Spokespeople for the nursing homes claimed that these evictions were in accord with federal law, which allows evictions for only a few reasons, such as non-payment of bills, danger to others, or the nursing homes’ inability ...
California

New Los Angeles Ordnance Turns Hospitals Into Homeless Shelters

Enterprises that “collaborate” with government generally find that the costs come to outweigh the benefits. Those who seek a “seat at the table” often end up being the main course. (Thanks to Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation for the metaphor.) And in the end, you cannot buy politicians off; ...
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Rhode Island Governor Offers Proposal for Consumer-Driven Medicaid Overhaul

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) has offered a proposal to save taxpayers $67 million by overhauling Rite Care, the state’s Medicaid program. Under the proposal, details of which are still being worked out between the state legislature and the Department of Human Services, Rhode Island would agree to a ...
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Congressional Task Force Seeks to Regulate Health Care

U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) are creating a bipartisan task force of White House and Congressional officials that will meet through the end of the year to consider legislative ways to lower health care costs; address the long-term funding issues affecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; ...
California

Will Another California “Safety Net” Hospital Shut Down?

I have written a lot about the collapse of Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr-Harbor Hospital, a hospital almost totally dependent on government funding and under government control. Now, it looks like the same tragic story may be spooling out in San Diego County, where Sharp Grossmont Hospital is at ...
Health Care

State Health Benefit Mandates Increase the Number of Uninsured

San Francisco, July 1, 2008 – The Pacific Research Institute today released the findings of a new report reviewing the impact of state benefit mandates on the uninsured. According to From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance, benefit mandates increase health insurance ...
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Maryland Law Targets Uninsured to Fill Government Insurance Rolls

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 As many as 90,000 eligible children in Maryland are not enrolled in the state’s subsidized health insurance program, according to state estimates, despite several expensive and lengthy marketing campaigns commissioned by the state government. This element of the uninsured population ...
Commentary

U.S. Index of Health Ownership 2nd Edition Is Here

Alabama up, Utah down, New York still in the basement: Where’s your state? Pacific Research Instite has published the 2nd edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only ranking of health care in the states that uses criteria of individual choice. Americans lack the basic freedom to make ...
Commentary

National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership

National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership Alabama Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last San Francisco-Americans lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research ...
Health Care

2008 U.S. Index of Health Ownership

National Think Tank Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership Alabama Comes Out on Top, New York Finishes Last San Francisco-Americans lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the second edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research ...
Commentary

Nursing Home Evictions: Another Problem of Government Dependency

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran a feature article about nursing homes evicting frail residents. Spokespeople for the nursing homes claimed that these evictions were in accord with federal law, which allows evictions for only a few reasons, such as non-payment of bills, danger to others, or the nursing homes’ inability ...
California

New Los Angeles Ordnance Turns Hospitals Into Homeless Shelters

Enterprises that “collaborate” with government generally find that the costs come to outweigh the benefits. Those who seek a “seat at the table” often end up being the main course. (Thanks to Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation for the metaphor.) And in the end, you cannot buy politicians off; ...
Commentary

Rhode Island Governor Offers Proposal for Consumer-Driven Medicaid Overhaul

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) has offered a proposal to save taxpayers $67 million by overhauling Rite Care, the state’s Medicaid program. Under the proposal, details of which are still being worked out between the state legislature and the Department of Human Services, Rhode Island would agree to a ...
Commentary

Congressional Task Force Seeks to Regulate Health Care

U.S. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) are creating a bipartisan task force of White House and Congressional officials that will meet through the end of the year to consider legislative ways to lower health care costs; address the long-term funding issues affecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; ...
California

Will Another California “Safety Net” Hospital Shut Down?

I have written a lot about the collapse of Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr-Harbor Hospital, a hospital almost totally dependent on government funding and under government control. Now, it looks like the same tragic story may be spooling out in San Diego County, where Sharp Grossmont Hospital is at ...
Health Care

State Health Benefit Mandates Increase the Number of Uninsured

San Francisco, July 1, 2008 – The Pacific Research Institute today released the findings of a new report reviewing the impact of state benefit mandates on the uninsured. According to From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance, benefit mandates increase health insurance ...
Commentary

Maryland Law Targets Uninsured to Fill Government Insurance Rolls

Health Care News, Heartland Institute (Chicago, IL), July 1, 2008 As many as 90,000 eligible children in Maryland are not enrolled in the state’s subsidized health insurance program, according to state estimates, despite several expensive and lengthy marketing campaigns commissioned by the state government. This element of the uninsured population ...
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