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Greenspan legacy -- long expansions, short recessions
PRI in the News
By: Tom Abate
1.29.2006
Tuesday morning Alan Greenspan will preside over his last meeting as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post from which he has steered the nation through more than 18 years of the most solid and inflation-free growth in its history.
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Romney touts healthcare reform
PRI in the News
By: Steve Muscatello
1.27.2006
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won’t call it universal coverage or even an individual mandate, but he will say that his new healthcare plan will require every Bay State citizen to have health insurance.
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State of the Union Address
Media Availability
1.26.2006
Health care reform is expected to be prominent in the President’s State of the Union address on January 31. Pacific Research Institute’s (PRI) policy experts continue to promote individual choice in health care decision-making and are available to comment on the President’s address.
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Unhealthy in Massachusetts
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.26.2006
Republican Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is trying to accomplish in his final year in office what Democrats can only dream of these days: boosting government spending on and regulation of health care and requiring individuals to purchase government-designed policies. Romney’s plan, which is backed by such liberals as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.), is being pitched as a compact between citizens and the state.
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Unhealthy litigation
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Peter Pitts
1.24.2006
It's important to place the Food and Drug Administration's new rule on physician labeling (which provides for more prescriber-friendly information about pharmaceutical products) into the appropriate context: urgent.
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Three steps to improve California schools
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.23.2006
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2006-07 budget proposal increases education spending by $4 billion, raising total per-pupil spending from state, federal and local sources from $10,336 in 2005-06 to $10,996. Some added spending will go to worthy goals, such as the governor’s program to increase the number of math and science teachers being produced by the University of California and the California State University system.
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Obscure Health Savings Accounts Might Yet Make Medical History
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.23.2006
Health care reform is said to figure prominently in President Bush's upcoming State of the Union address. And those calling for a nationalized health care system have already begun to re-energize their efforts. Bush should build his health care reform agenda on the same free-market principles that gave birth to health savings accounts (HSAs) two years ago.
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Prop. 209, 10 years later
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.18.2006
Ballot initiatives have been getting shot down like skeet lately in California, but that hasn’t always been the case. This year marks the 10th anniversary of one that passed handily but needs to be revisited.
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Pacific Research Institute Issues Statement on Nanotechnology
Press Release
1.17.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank, has challenged the conclusions reached by a recent report released by the Woodrow Wilson International Center that claims that U.S. laws and regulations cannot adequately protect the public against the risks of nanotechnology. PRI believes that calls for stricter nanotechnology laws would be a serious public policy mistake.
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A plea to lift ban on drug imports
PRI in the News
By: Daniel B. Wood
1.17.2006
LOS ANGELES – Mike Jordan has just left a Rite Aid pharmacy with a $111.78 prescription bill. "As far as I can tell, I will be getting about 40 percent of this back," the retiree says, referring to Medicare's new program to cover a portion of drug costs for those who enroll. But he thinks he can do even better.
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Pension Intervention II
California Republic.org Op-Ed
By: Anthony P. Archie
1.16.2006
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 23 (ACA 23), introduced this year by Assemblyman Keith Richman, might be called Pension Intervention Part II because it is the second attempt to reform California’s unstable and outdated public employee pension systems.
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Nanotechnology Needs Nano-Scale Regulation
Technology Op-Ed
1.16.2006
Anyone who purchased clear sunscreen or wore stain-resistant pants during the holidays was probably enjoying the benefits of commercialized nanotechnology. While nanotech advances are exciting, some observers dangerously press for greater government oversight in the sector.
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Who's got health insurance?
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
1.15.2006
I hate to intrude on the doom and gloom about the "crisis of the uninsured," but the problem of Californians without health insurance is not as awful as generally portrayed.
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Congress looks askance at firms that bow to China
PRI in the News
By: Anne Broache, Declan McCullagh
1.13.2006
After hearing reports that American tech giants like Microsoft and Yahoo are abiding by Chinese law mandating Internet censorship, some irritated U.S. politicians are threatening to pass laws restricting such cooperation.
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County E-voting will create paper trail
By: Stacia Glenn
1.12.2006
Confidence in the voting system is expected to build this year as San Bernardino and Riverside counties offer voters a paper printout to review choices before casting their ballot.
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Schwarzenegger's New Budget Has Many Conservatives Worried
PRI in the News
By: Josh Gerstein
1.12.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - California conservatives are up in arms over Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal to spend the state's entire surplus in the next fiscal year, increasing government outlays at a rate higher than the Democratic governor he ousted.
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Vaccine industry needs a cure
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.12.2006
The spread of bird flu to Turkey raises the specter of a frightening pandemic, which could eventually reach the United States (Page 8A, Jan. 10). Unfortunately, there's no vaccine available. Why? Because our government has crippled the country's once-thriving vaccine industry.
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Can Grossmont Make Charter Schools Succeed?
Education Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.12.2006
Plans have been advanced to turn the Grossmont Union High
School District into a charter-school district. Such a
conversion carries no guarantee of success, but if
district leaders follow the examples of successful
charter schools, they could improve the prospects for
local students.
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California’s Uninsured May Be Overstated by More Than 100% According to a Pacific Research Institute Study
Press Release
1.10.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – A report released today by the Pacific Research Institute on health insurance in California asserts that the state is not out of line with the rest of the U.S. when it comes to health insurance coverage. California’s Uninsured: Crisis, Conundrum, or Chronic Condition? (available at www.pacificresearch.org) challenged the figures of 18 to 20 percent uninsured that are usually cited in discussions of California’s health insurance crisis. John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies at PRI and author of the report, contended that these percentages are likely more than double the true figures
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Hercules residents say they prefer boutiques to Wal-Mart
By: Shirley Dang
1.6.2006
HERCULES - As a resident of growing Hercules - known for its nouveau Victorian homes, tree-lined streets and Bay views - Jason Akel said he pines for a Whole Foods, a Banana Republic and maybe one of those holistic drugstores like Elephant Pharmacy.
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CNet News.com Sensationalism And Fearmongering, Part II
By: Ben Forta
1.6.2006
Apparently CNet's News.com staff writers Declan McCullough and Anne Broache just can't resist the lure of sensationalism and fearmongering. After yesterday's blatantly inaccurate and highly inflammatory Government Web sites are keeping an eye on you (which undoubtedly generated lots of page views and thus advertising revenue for CNet), they followed up today with Part 2 entitled Congress' hands caught in the cookie jar.
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Gov. Pushes Massive Rebuilding Plan
PRI in the News
1.6.2006
KGO - Just two months ago Governor Schwarzenegger had a
tough time selling his special election budget cutting
plan. Now he seems to have done a 180 degree turn. He
outlined a huge borrowing and spending plan in his state
of the state message last night, and tonight, he's
already selling it.
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Don't Strangle E-Voting With Paper
Technology Op-Ed
1.6.2006
Just because open-source software is out in the open doesn't mean it is secure, and just because proprietary software doesn't openly spill its code doesn't mean it is flawed. Both types of software should compete, and government tests of proprietary code before use make a lot of sense. The assertion that voters don't trust e-voting machines is also wrong.
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Policy Experts Available to Comment on State of the State Address
Media Availability
1.5.2006
SAN FRANCISCO –Tonight, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will deliver his State of the State address to Californians. He is expected to outline a state policy agenda that will include: health care policy and raising the minimum wage. For timely commentary on the Governor’s speech, contact the policy analysts at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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HSA Help Uninsured
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.3.2006
Your report rightly noted that consumer-driven health
plans encourage smart shopping, as opposed to the
all-you-can-use mentality of traditional health insurance
("Survey says many wary of 'consumer' health trend," Dec.
9).
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Learning Lessons From Canada’s Health System
Heritage Forum Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.1.2006
HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S. IS BASED on an array of contradictions and paradoxes. The reason it’s so expensive to the country is because it’s so cheap for us individuals. On average, American households spend a mere $200 a month out of pocket on health care, roughly half of what they spend on entertainment and eating out.
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