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No Thanksgiving for the New Massachusetts Health Plan
Bay State Residents Will Digest Giant Tax Turkey
11.30.2006
The Massachusetts health insurance plan will cost Bay State taxpayers double what was originally claimed, disclosed a recent bond filing by the state of Massachusetts. Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, reveals this and other findings in her just released study, “Questionable Cure for a Questionable Crisis: The Massachusetts Health Plan Takes Shape.” The new report closely examines the new state health plan and casts doubt on the premises underlying the program and its promise of universal health insurance coverage at affordable cost.
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Schools can't blame failures on lack of cash
PRI in the News
11.29.2006
The California Teachers Association spent the past couple of years blasting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for shortchanging public schools, but now a San Francisco Chronicle article details the degree to which the state's public schools are flush with cash. Don't expect any apologies to the governor, or any effort to return the excess cash to taxpayers. In the world of public schools, teachers unions and Sacramento legislators, the only thing wrong with the state's schools is – can we say it in unison – they don't have enough money to do their job.
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Locals Set Example for State on Telephone Taxes
Technology Op-Ed
By: Vince Vasquez
11.24.2006
This past election day, two key cities in Silicon Valley voted to reject sky-high telephone taxes. If state lawmakers don’t heed the rising voice of residents, they may have to answer to a new telephone tax revolt in California. At issue is the Utility Users Tax (UUT), a municipal surcharge paid by nearly half the communities in the Golden State.
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Grading California Education
PRI in the News
By: Michael R. Snell
11.20.2006
Looks like TWC may have to stop insulting people by asking them if they were educated in Californicate public schools. According to the latest information from my better half, California public schools have made tremendous strides in putting together a curriculum that actually focuses on education. I'm still skeptical but she's still the expert on the subject and she says....
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LA asks admiral to get school system shipshape
PRI in the News
By: Robert Lusetich, LA Correspondent
11.20.2006
AFTER decades in decline, the bloated and beleaguered Los Angeles public school system has turned to a can-do retired navy admiral to save what has become a $US13billion-a-year ($16.9 billion) sinking ship.
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PRI Education Studies Director Lance Izumi elected Vice President of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Press Release
11.17.2006
At its recent November 13th meeting, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges elected Lance Izumi as the Board’s vice president. Mr. Izumi is director of education studies and senior fellow in California studies at the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute, the state’s premier free-market think tank. He was appointed to the Board of Governors by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004. As vice president, Mr. Izumi will serve as the second-ranking officer on the Board behind Kay Albiani, newly-elected Board president.
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America: Wake Up on Immigration
Tecnology Op-Ed
11.17.2006
This week the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released "American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on U.S. Competitiveness," a new study that reveals something that Silicon Valley netizens already know but scream for others to recognize: The immigration debate affects America's economy in a big way.
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Election Day successes boost the digital ballot
Technology Op-Ed
By: Vince Vasquez
11.17.2006
WASHINGTON - This Election Day, more than 65 million Americans voted using direct recording electronic, or DRE, machines. Despite the hysteria over ballot booth meltdowns, voters can continue to be confident using e-voting systems, as they make voting simpler, safer, and more accessible than traditional paper ballots.
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No Thanksgiving for the New Massachusetts Health Plan
Press Release
11.16.2006
SAN FRANCISCO — The Massachusetts health insurance plan will cost Bay State taxpayers double what was originally claimed, disclosed a recent bond filing by the state of Massachusetts. Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, reveals this and other findings in her just released study, “Questionable Cure for a Questionable Crisis: The Massachusetts Health Plan Takes Shape.” The new report closely examines the new state health plan and casts doubt on the premises underlying the program and its promise of universal health insurance coverage at affordable cost.
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Carbon Sequestration Methods Expensive, Complex
Press Release
11.15.2006
SAN FRANCISCO — Policymakers should not take carbon emission reduction policies lightly, according to the new study “Sense and Sequestration: The Carbon Sequestration Cycle Explained” released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California. While sequestration offers a viable approach to decreasing CO2 emissions, the costs are high and the details are numerous. The study can be downloaded at http://www.pacificresearch.org/.
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A pile of pablum
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
11.14.2006
When "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno asks young people simple political or historical questions during his popular "Jay Walking" segment, the confused answers are every bit as sad as they are funny.
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State's tax-phobia: alive and well
PRI in the News
By: Chris Reed
11.8.2006
Fiscal conservatives dismayed by the defeat of Tom McClintock for lieutenant governor can take heart in the fact that state voters once again showed their disdain for higher taxes. K. Lloyd Billingsley of the Pacific Research Institute takes a closer look at the proposition results:
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The E-Facts of E-Voting
Technology Op-Ed
By: Vince Vasquez
11.7.2006
Today, Californians from all walks of life will be able to vote with a phenomenal technology. Californians can also be confident with "e-voting," despite the cries of fear-mongers and conspiracy theorists.
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Terminating the Free Market
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.6.2006
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this fall signed a bill requiring prescription drug companies to offer huge discounts on medications to low-and middle-income Californians. The Golden State's plan has garnered wide praise -- and many are seeing it as a model for the nation.
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Massachusetts Health Insurance Plan Will Cost $151M More Than Expected, Opinion Piece Says
PRI in the News
11.6.2006
Officials of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) administration are "now telling Wall Street that they expect" the state's new law requiring all residents to obtain health insurance by July 1, 2007, "to be quite expensive," even though "supporters promised that health insurance could be provided with only a slight increase in expenditures," Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, writes in a Washington Times opinion piece.
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Mass medical mess
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.5.2006
How to know when a politician is lying, asks an old joke. The answer: his lips are moving. There were plenty of loose lips leading to last spring's passage of the Massachusetts health reform that instituted an individual mandate, placed fees on employers, and offered increased subsidies to low income residents.
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Colorado ranks second in the nation for its efforts to restrain abusive lawsuits
PRI in the News
By: Rob Larimer
11.3.2006
Colorado ranks second in the nation for its efforts to restrain abusive lawsuits, and while many say that's a benefit to everyone, advocates say it bodes even better for business. The rankings are part of a report from the San Francisco-based think tank Pacific Research Institute. Tort - French for "wrong" - suits are cases in which pain and suffering damages, rather than simply monetary damages, are awarded.
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Firms to Modify School Snacks
PRI in the News
By: Karla Dial
11.1.2006
The William J. Clinton Foundation and five major food companies announced on October 6 that snacks sold to kids in public schools as part of school lunch programs and from vending machines on school property will contain less fat, sugar, and sodium.
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Schwarzenegger Rejects Plan for Single Payer
PRI in the News
By: Bradley Kreit
11.1.2006
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) vetoed a bill in September that would have replaced the state's current health care model with a single-payer, universal insurance mandate.
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Ohio Best in the Midwest for Tort Climate
PRI in the News
11.1.2006
COLUMBUS, OH -- Ohio ranks No. 4 in the United States and No. 1 in the Midwest for best tort climate, according to a report released this year by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank. In the competition for jobs and capital investment, those states that suffer from high tort costs will continue to lose jobs and businesses to those with superior tort systems, states the U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2006 Report, which ranks all 50 states in terms of relative tort burdens and tort reforms.
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