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Labor Daze in Calif.
Sacramento Union - Business and Economics Op-Ed
8.31.2007
When it was established as a federal holiday in 1882, Labor Day was intended to be a day off in appreciation of the American worker. Today, political candidates looking for votes claim to show their appreciation for workers by courting labor unions, giving them grand concessions at a cost to the American public. This Labor Day, it’s worth taking a step back to examine the disproportionate influence labor unions enjoy despite their relatively low membership.
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Students as customers. What a concept.
PRI in the News
By: Mark Landsbaum
8.31.2007
In the face of obvious facts, public school officials seem puzzled about how to improve what they do. Perhaps if they didn’t stand to gain by perpetuating the tax-subsidized, poorly performing, family rights usurping current system, they might recognize the obvious.
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Lessons from Massachusetts
PRI in the News
8.29.2007
Massachusetts' health care mandate provides a poor model for the rest of the country -- unless we are looking for an expensive expansion of government. It won't achieve universal care. It has increased government spending, bureaucracy and regulation. It most certainly will prompt increased taxes, says Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute.
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A Summer Chill
PRI in the News
By: Peter Hannaford
8.27.2007
Have you noticed the silence about this year's hurricanes from Al Gore, Pontiff of The Holy Order of the Sky Is Falling? As last year's hurricane season began, the pontiff and his acolytes cheerfully predicted a series of devastating hurricanes. None came. So far this year it's been Dean, which put the east coast of Mexico awash, but without huge losses. Silence from THOOTSIF. No wonder.
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Dr. Romney Goes National. A Republican health-care plan.
National Review - PRI in the News
8.27.2007
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out his health-care plan on Friday in Florida. The former Massachusetts governor has earned both contentious criticism and accolades for working with Democrats to reform health-care there while governor. National Review Online asked a group of health-care experts to take a look at what he had to offer Friday. Here are their reactions.
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Much ado about individual ethnicity
Op-Ed
By: Tibor Machan
8.27.2007
A young woman asked me the other day to guess her ethnic background. After declining to guess — mainly because I don’t care about such stuff and know even less — she kept pressing me. I finally said, “I guess you may be Turkish,” whereupon she took major offense.
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Health Care Amid the Campaigns
PRI in the News
By: Carter Wood
8.27.2007
Sally C. Pipes, head of the Pacific Research Institute, examines the Massachusetts health-care plan, worth special note because it requires everyone to obtain health insurance -- the so-called individual mandate -- if only through a heavily subsidized government plan. (She's a health policy advisor for Rudy Giuliani, and Gov. Romney is the originator of the Massachusetts plan, so this column can be viewed as political critique. On the other hand, she was making these criticisms before signing on with Giuiliani.)
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North Carolina’s Low Rank on Health Policy
PRI in the News
By: John Hood
8.26.2007
If it’s a good idea for voters to “own” elections, as advocates of taxpayer-funded campaigns put it, why isn’t it also a worthy goal for consumers to own their own health-care policies?
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Canadian health system can be nightmare
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Fred C. Robinson
8.25.2007
With this letter I should like to add my enthusiastic assent to Sally C. Pipes’s July 27 column, “Sicko slant irksome even in Canada,” and the gross inaccuracy of Michael Moore’s starry-eyed endorsement of Canadian health care.
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A Better Legal Climate Promotes Prosperity
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.23.2007
Voters will soon shape their economic future when they go to the polls in quickly approaching primaries. On civil justice, candidates fall into one of two camps: either they believe the legal climate is an integral part of the business climate and lawsuit abuse must be eliminated to be globally competitive; or, they side with personal injury lawyers and deny any problem exists.
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Lessons from Massachusetts
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.23.2007
Health care reform is hot this election season and presidential hopefuls from both parties appear weekly with promises of reforms that will supposedly solve our system's problems with universal coverage at affordable costs. A recent overhaul in Massachusetts that expanded taxpayer-funded health insurance and requires individuals to purchase government-approved policies is proving particularly compelling to many, not the least because its architect, Mitt Romney, is a leading Republican candidate.
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Should health insurance be required?
PRI in the News
By: Ed Tibbetts
8.23.2007
Most Americans accept the idea to drive a car they need insurance. But what about health care? Should all Americans be forced to sign up for health insurance?
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Mitt's Mythical Massachusetts Miracle
PRI in the News
By: Deroy Murdock
8.22.2007
With his confident style and crowd-pleasing smile, Ames, Iowa, straw-poll winner Willard Mitt Romney looks like a formidable contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. If he's lucky, he can leave voters so dazzled that they ignore his record.
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Tort Reform stimulates health care across Texas
Beaumont Enterprise - Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Joe Nixon
8.21.2007
SAN FRANCISCO - After the Texas Legislature enacted landmark tort reform legislation, it was a matter of time before defenders of the old status quo launched a counterattack.
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A nation sold on drugs
Los Angeles Times - Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
8.20.2007
Melissa Healy's series examining the pharmaceutical industry's influence on doctors and patients ignores a key reality. Physicians have absolute control over their relationship with Big Pharma by virtue of their professional monopoly on prescribing medicines.
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CNBC News: State of the Economy
CNBC News Clipping
8.20.2007
Debating whether the Fed is on the right track, with Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute senior fellow; David Jones, DMJ Advisors CEO and CNBC's Sue Herera
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To shore up state's economy
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
8.18.2007
Every so often, a ludicrous lawsuit brings the issue of tort abuse under the media spotlight. Just recently, for example, a man from Wayne filed suit against a local Starbucks after spilling hot tea on himself. He is seeking damages from Starbucks for allegedly attaching the lid on the cup improperly. Curiously, his wife, too, is seeking compensation, despite the fact that she was not injured.
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Aging as a Computing Problem
Technology Op-Ed
8.17.2007
This week, Dr. Gordon Lithgow, associate professor at the Buck Institute, showed up in San Francisco and spoke to a packed house on aging, new technologies and why interdisciplinary connections are helping to unravel the mysteries of growing old. While politics often slows down progress, computer scientists can play a role in speeding things up.
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Philadelphia's WiFi Program Off to Shaky Start
Radio Interview
8.13.2007
Now, on Mondays we talk about technology and today we'll look at municipal wireless networks. Hundreds of cities around the country have projects in the works and Philadelphia was the first major city to start one up. The City of Brotherly Love was supposed to be a showcase for Earthlink, the company that is providing the wireless service. But Philly WiFi is off to a slow start, as Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
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Vouchers would give wounded veterans better care
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Adam Frey
8.9.2007
On July 25, a bipartisan presidential panel on military and veterans’ care released a report suggesting improvements to medical care provided by the Department of Defense and Veterans Health Administration. Formed in response to the recent debacle at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the commission confirms the need for drastic reform.
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Title IX: You've Come A Long Way, Baby
PRI in the News
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.8.2007
New actions against the University of California, Davis confirm that Title IX has come a long way from a program intended to provide equality of opportunity in college sports. It now does practically the opposite.
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Still too litigious
PRI in the News
8.7.2007
At first blush, Connecticut's 24th-place finish in the American Justice Partnership's rankings of tort-law-liability climate would seem to be welcome news.
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The Universal Distraction
PRI in the News
By: Arnold Kling
8.7.2007
The Pacific Research Institute's John Graham offered this glum assessment during a brief chat recently when he came to Washington, DC for a meeting. He points out that the focus of health care policy is on how to get to "universal coverage." In this context, the conservative approach involves mandatory health insurance. The liberal approach involves expanding government coverage. Hence, it is either fascism or Communism.
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More lies from Moore
New York Daily News - Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.7.2007
In "Sicko," Michael Moore uses a clip of my appearance earlier this year on "The O'Reilly Factor" to introduce a segment on the glories of Canadian health care.
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Pa. mandate will be costly
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
8.3.2007
Many in the Keystone state wonder why health care is so expensive, even though more people become uninsured every year. According to Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko", it's because the government doesn't command enough of the spending. Take the money away from private insurers, he says, and everything will be fine. But Moore's got it wrong.
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The Never-Ending Saga of the $54 Million Pants
Business and Economics Op-Ed
8.3.2007
As Americans await the next big frivolous lawsuit, Roy Pearson, the D.C. judge who unsuccessfully sued his dry cleaners for $54 million over an alleged lost pair of pants, serves as a reminder of serious flaws in the American civil justice system.
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Giuliani's False Health Care Promise
PRI in the News
By: Jonathan Cohn
8.2.2007
In New Hampshire on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani released a new health care plan — except that it is not really new and it's not much of a plan.
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Romney Critic Crafted Giuliani Health Plan
ABC News Clipping
By: Teddy Davis
8.1.2007
Befitting his status as the GOP's presidential front-runner, Rudy Giuliani has avoided all direct attacks on Republican rival Mitt Romney. It was a strategy that continued when Giuliani unveiled his health care plan earlier this week, aiming his criticism at the top three Democrats running for president.
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