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Ohio S.C. makes another pro-business ruling
Legal Newsline.com Clipping
By: John O'Brien
12.28.2007
Tort reformers recently earned their second major victory in the Ohio Supreme Court this year, as the justices upheld a law that puts caps on non-economic damages in personal injury lawsuits.
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Are New Preschool English-learner Standards Really About “The Children”?
The Eureka Reporter Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
12.23.2007
SACRAMENTO — California may soon be the first state to implement academic standards for preschool English-language learners. The standards are part of the state’s Preschool Learning Foundations initiative that began in 2004. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell is expected to approve them in early 2008. Compliance would then be mandatory for any preschool receiving state funds.
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Cure State Regulation of Health Insurance
Wall Street Journal - Letter to the Editor
By: John R. Graham
12.20.2007
Congratulations to Merrill Matthews ("A Health-Insurance Solution," op-ed, Dec. 12) for pointing out the tragedy of state governments forbidding citizens from exercising the basic right to buy health insurance from other states.
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Remove barriers to affordable health insurance
Rocky Mountain News Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.17.2007
Ever wonder why health insurance costs so much in Colorado? Well, maybe it has something to do with the fact that every insurance policy in the state must cover all kinds of services — including professional counseling — deemed unnecessary by many.
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Team Rudy: A brainy and ready brain trust
National Review Clipping
By: John J. Miller
12.17.2007
As Bill Simon Jr. prepared to run for governor of California, he sought the advice of his old boss, Rudy Giuliani. They agreed to have breakfast at The Peninsula, a ritzy hotel in Manhattan. The date was September 11, 2001.
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Radical Life Extension and Religious Evolution
Tech News World Op-Ed
12.14.2007
New data released this week shows that human evolution is speeding up -- an interesting development given that many in the scientific community are hopeful that humans can take greater control over the process.
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California Court Outlaws Responsible Underwriting
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
12.14.2007
I have scribbled with increasing anxiety about California regulators' war against insurers' responsible policing of fraud. Incredibly, a court has just decided that because Blue Shield did not staple a copy of a beneficiary's application to his policy, the insurer lost the right to rescind it for misrepresentation!
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Advances in Health IT - No Government Needed
Heartland Insitute Clipping
By: Kate Campaigne
12.13.2007
Health and Human Services Department Secretary Mike Leavitt has taken a special interest in Health IT (health information technology). He advocates requiring Medicare providers to use e-prescribing and e-records.
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Socialized Oil Can't Replace Market Sense
Investor's Business Daily Op-Ed
12.13.2007
The Bush administration, with support from the Energy Department, is building up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a rate of some 50,000 barrels a day. Sen. Hillary Clinton and other critics want the administration to reverse this buildup. A better response would be to take the government's current stockpile of 700 million barrels and sell it off into private hands.
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Capping Jury Verdicts Boon For Health Care
Tyler Morning Telegraph (TX) Clipping
12.11.2007
Free-market fixes are proving to be just what the doctor ordered, the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Drew Thornley reports. The hotly debated "tort reforms" concerning medical liability have yielded significant results for Texans.
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Affluent neighborhoods ≠ good education
Mammoth Times (CA) Clipping
By: Stacey Powells, Mammoth Times Staff Writer
12.10.2007
State test scores indicate school system isn't serving any group of students particularly well...no matter where you live
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Universal Choice, Not Universal Health Care
Ripon Forum Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
12.7.2007
The editor of the Ripon Forum has offered me the challenging privilege of submitting an “essay that examines some of the key health care reform initiatives that have been passed by the states, how these initiatives are working, and whether any of them are ideas he believes the U.S. Congress should pursue.”
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Emotional Warning
Stanford Review Clipping
By: Elizabeth Lowell
12.7.2007
In a talk on “Scientific Skepticism” sponsored by Stanford in Government in November, Dr. Fred Singer sparked a heated debate as he combated the widespread view that humans are causing climate change.
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Health of the nation
The Seattle Times Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
12.3.2007
Syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson attacks Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's gratitude to American health care for curing him of prostate cancer, but he plays fast and loose with the facts.
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Cover Less to Cover More
New York Times Op-Ed
By: Lauren Stossel
12.2.2007
THE governor of New York has been touting his “patient-centered approach to health care policy,” claiming that it is “driven by the needs and demands of New Yorkers.” That sounds nice, but the plan is actually centered on more government control of the health insurance market and higher taxes — not exactly a new approach here.
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Real tort tax doesn't have much to do with lawsuits
Birmingham News (AL) Clipping
By: Robert Leslie Parker
12.1.2007
Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey recently reported that many of the "poster child" cases for the "tort reform" agenda advanced by big business are either entirely fabricated or exaggerated beyond recognition. He then observed that the media, "too dazzled by marvelous stories to do even the easiest research to determine whether they were true," bear much of the blame.
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Pressing Forward with Health IT
Heartland Institute Clipping
By: Sharon J. Watson
12.1.2007
A growing number of initiatives within the private sector, among industry groups, and at the state level to promote and adopt health information technology (HIT) have some analysts suggesting federal efforts have been less effective than developments driven by consumers, businesses, and nonprofits.
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Reconsidering Suit Ability
Governing Magazine Clipping
By: Alan Ehrenhalt
12.1.2007
One evening a few years ago, on a reporting trip to Charleston, West Virginia, I noticed a nice-looking restaurant right across the street from my hotel. I walked in, found a table, picked up a menu--and practically fell out of my seat. The entrees started in the $30 range and drifted upward from there. I mumbled an apology to the hostess and looked for somewhere else to go.
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Well-Off Kids Fail, Too
Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
12.1.2007
Imagine opening the door to a new, $451,000 home in Lake Elsinore. That hefty price tag represents the community's median home price. But at least that means a great neighborhood. And half a million dollars surely guarantees access to a good public school system. Right?
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California's Expensive ZIP Codes Deliver Cut-Rate Education Results
Heartland Institute Clipping
By: Dr. Matthew Ladner
12.1.2007
Opinion polls have long shown stronger than average support for school choice among Hispanics and African-Americans. Suburban complacency could explain much of this gap. If so, this fascinating book by a team of Pacific Research Institute scholars comes as an alarming wake-up call to well-to-do Californians who believe America's education crisis is someone else's problem.
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