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The wrong prescriptions
PRI in the News
12.29.2006
Every special interest with its finger in the health care pie claims to have a "solution" to rising costs and the problem of the uninsured. Gov. Schwarzenegger has considered many of these ideas while shaping his own proposal, to be unveiled soon.
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Rewrite these prescriptions
PRI in the News
12.27.2006
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger firms up his proposals to reform California health care, we strongly recommend holding the line against costly new mandates that would force insurance companies to add more types of coverage, which would increase, rather than cut, costs.
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Health care at a crossroads
PRI in the News
12.26.2006
California is at a crossroads that will dictate the quality and cost of health care for millions of residents for decades to come. And as so often is the case, as California goes, the rest of the nation may follow.
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Golden Gaffes 2006
Technology Op-Ed
12.22.2006
There are only 10 days left in 2006, ample time to review -- and hopefully learn from -- past mistakes, including at least five policy blunders that should not have happened in California this year. Start with the most recent: the city of Berkeley's new nanotech regulations.
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Drug Ads: Kill the Messenger?
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.19.2006
AMERICA spends too much on cars - especially expensive cars that we just don't need. When it comes to getting to work or school, a Toyota Camry - or even a bicycle - is just as effective as a Lexus ES, a BMW, or a Jaguar. There are already too many choices - yet automakers keep coming up with more. What should we do?
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Forum to Explore Evidence-Based Medicine and Implications for U.S. Healthcare
PRI in the News
12.15.2006
SAN FRANCISCO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The California Healthcare Institute (CHI) and the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) have assembled policy experts from Australia and the U.S. in San Francisco today to discuss the pros and cons of applying prospective cost-effectiveness analysis to insurance coverage of prescription drugs and how doing so might influence patients’ access to innovative medicines for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions.
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Technology and the Politics of War
Technology Op-Ed
12.15.2006
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., caused a political firestorm recently when he said he wanted to reinstate a military draft. His radical proposal brings to light a growing theme that both political parties should consider very closely.
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Convenient Fiction? Documentary Plans to Challenge Gore
PRI in the News
By: Nathan Burchfiel
12.15.2006
(CNSNews.com) - A critic of "global warming alarmism" began filming a documentary Thursday that seeks to rebut some of the claims former Vice President Al Gore made in his popular movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."
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Net Neutrality Shopping Is Bad for the Economy
Technology Op-Ed
12.8.2006
Shopping is normally good for the economy, but not when the shoppers are net neutrality advocates looking for friendly deals on a regulatory forum. Policy makers in Michigan, their current target, should tell pro-regulatory activists to go home, with good reason.
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California's To-Do List
CA Political Review Op-Ed
By: Anthony Archie
12.5.2006
When the legislature reconvenes next week, the state's elected officials will most likely push an agenda that maintains the status quo. But California's taxpayers deserve a legislature that will tackle some of the state's most nagging problems. Lawmakers could start by reforming the state's public employee pension system.
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Spoilsport trial lawyers
By: Steve Hantler
12.5.2006
Many Americans must have thought it was a bad joke -- or a least a headline from the satirical online publication, the Onion. In Attleboro, Mass., an elementary school has banned tag, touch football, and "any other unsupervised chase game" that kids enjoyed at recess for generations
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Under the knife overseas
PRI in the News
By: Joyce Howard Price
12.3.2006
Growing numbers of Americans are traveling abroad to undergo medical and dental procedures that are much less expensive than they are in this country -- and sometimes not available in the United States at all.
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Microsoft-Novell alliance has a larger significance
Technology Op-Ed
12.1.2006
The new alliance between Microsoft and Novell represents a massive change in the software industry, marking the beginning of greater Windows-Linux interoperability for enterprise customers. Such interoperability is also occurring on an arguably more important level, between proprietary and open-source software. This new arrangement leaves little room for free-software ideologues who eschew intellectual property (IP).
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Generating the Longevity Dividend
Technology Op-Ed
12.1.2006
New scientific studies showing that it is possible to slow down the aging process are important for those interested in life extension but also key for those who want to see greater economic growth. That's because life-extending treatments generate what some call the "longevity dividend" -- an idea that deserves more attention.
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