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Obamacare Is Already Falling Apart
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.27.2011
Last week, the House of Representatives voted by a wide margin -- 245 to 189 -- to repeal the president's landmark health reform package. It's unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will bring the measure up in the upper body.
A School Choice Week lesson for Gov. Brown
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 1.25.2011
Gov. Jerry Brown eliminated the office of the state secretary of education, but aside from that symbolic and inconsequential act, his proposed education budget for 2011-12 contains no real reform ideas.
Choosy about right to choose
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.21.2011
Jan. 22 marks the 38th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. On this date annually, both sides of the abortion controversy confront each other over one of America's most contentious issues.
Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin
Submitted by John R. Graham on 1.20.2011
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections.
Hospitals lure doctors away from private practice
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.12.2011
While making the case for his health reform package, President Obama argued that his proposal would make life easier for small-business owners.
Medi-Cal Long-Term Care: Safety Net or Hammock?
Submitted by Stephen Moses on 1.5.2011
Easy access to Medi-Cal-financed long-term care (LTC) has caused many Californians to put off long-term care planning and rely on public assistance. The taxpayer price tag for Medi-Cal Long-Term Care was $12.5 billion in 2008 and will likely increase with the growing population of age-80-plus citizens in the state.
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