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U.S. Index of Health Ownership: 3rd Edition
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.21.2009
Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to this third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
Americans Beware: “Healthy” San Francisco’s Tax Hikes May Be Coming Your Way
Submitted by John R. Graham on 7.15.2009
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines.
Medicaid’s Costs, Like Medicare’s, Have Risen Far More Than the Costs of Private Health Care
Submitted by Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D on 7.14.2009
As the congressional debate heats up over President Obama’s proposed “public option” and his proposed expansion of Medicaid, the debate largely centers on the question of controlling costs. The president claims that more government control would make health care more affordable. The empirical evidence, however, confirms that more government control would make health care more expensive.
California Feminist Seeking Young, Healthy Man to Subsidize Health Care Costs: Must Enjoy Higher Premiums
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 7.7.2009
Groups claiming to support women’s rights have recently thrown their support behind California bills AB 199 and SB 54, which would ban the practice of gender rating in the individual insurance market. If enacted, this legislation will have adverse consequences that seem to have escaped notice.
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 7.1.2009
SACRAMENTO – The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRM’s own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the Voters’ Mandate, a June 25 report from the Little Hoover Commission, a state watchdog agency.
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