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The "Congressional" Health Care Plan
Freedom Politics Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
3.31.2009
With the highly publicized White House Forum on Health Reform now in the rearview mirror, President Obama has taken his show on the road. The administration is in the midst of holding five other such forums across the country. These gatherings are intended to set the stage for congressional action later in the year.
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More educating with less money
Orange County Register Op-Ed - California Focus
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
3.27.2009
The Oakland Charter Academy and the Our Community Charter School in the San Fernando Valley have won the Hart Vision "Charter School of the Year" award from the California Charter Schools Association. Schools statewide have good reason to take note, especially in tough economic times.
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Blame it on the followers of Keynes
The Financial Post (CAN) News Clipping
By: John Greenwood
3.27.2009
As the United States, Canada and other countries unleash trillions of dollars of economic stimulus packages on the world's teetering financial system, it may be helpful to recall that the last time governments tried to "fix" the economy with mountains of borrowed money, it ended up making the problem worse.
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Obama's Education "Reforms"
Freedom Politics Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.26.2009
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shill for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details.
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CNBC - Inside the Bank Rescue Plan, Pt. 2
CNBC Video - Larry Kudlow Show
3.25.2009
Insight the bank rescue plan, with Bill Seidman, fmr. FDIC chairman; Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute; Vincent Reinhart, fmr. Fed Monetary director; Bill Isaac, fmr. FDIC chairman; and CNBC's Larry Kudlow.
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School choice for more than just Obama, Gates
Providence Journal (RI) Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.23.2009
Bill Gates recently released his annual letter on the state of his foundation. It turns out that he, President Obama and Chicago school chief Arne Duncan, the president’s pick for education secretary, have something in common. All say that the key experience in their life was their attendance at their childhood private schools.
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The Myth of the 46 Million
American Spectator News Clipping
By: Philip Klein
3.20.2009
"Even for folks who are weathering this economic storm, and have health care right now," President Obama said at this month's White House health care summit, "all it takes is one stroke of bad luck -- an accident or an illness, a divorce, a lost job -- to become one of the nearly 46 million uninsured…"
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Why It's OK for Newspapers to Die
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
3.20.2009
The transition that's taking place in the news publishing industry -- from print to online -- is a healthy step in technology-driven evolution, though there will undoubtedly be some short-term pain. The loss of print newspapers is akin to the loss of the horse and buggy.
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When America becomes Obamaland
DC Examiner News Clipping
By: Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor
3.19.2009
There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America: We won’t recognize our country when he’s finished.
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The Libertarian Perspective On California Water
Knowing Humans News Clipping
By: Brian Holtz
3.18.2009
Secure private property rights in all water, combined with full-cost pricing in free water markets, is the best (and indeed only) way to match California's vast water supplies to its growing water demands.
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CNBC News: Fed Backs U.S. Economy
CNBC News Clipping
By: Larry Kudlow Show
3.18.2009
Lee Hoskins appeared on The Kudlow Report on CNBC to discuss the Federal Reserve's 'build-up the balance sheet' program.
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Bipartisan Ground Hard to Glimpse on Health Overhaul Legislation
Congressional Quarterly Healthbeat News Clipping
By: Rebecca Adams, CQ Staff
3.17.2009
Democrats and Republicans at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on Tuesday didn’t disagree with each other on everything. Several agreed on support for community health centers and the need to provide the public with more information about medical prices. But on most other issues raised at the hearing on affordable health care, the two parties outlined sharp differences that are unlikely to be resolved before the full panel considers legislation to overhaul health care.
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Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments
Imperial Valley News Clipping
3.17.2009
Sacramento, California - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Tim Alderson, Jaime Hurtado, Lance Izumi, Stephen Jensen, Jorge Lopez, Kenneth Minesinger, Gary Reed, Richard Sawhill III, Brad Scott, Linda Thompson and James Venable.
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Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
The Heritage Foundation "Foundry" Blog
By: Todd Thurman
3.16.2009
A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on the New York times Web site explaining how well the voucher program works in Sweden.
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Universal Choice Achieves Universal Coverage
Heritage Foundation "The Foundry" Blog
By: Marguerite Higgins
3.16.2009
Health-care policy doyenne Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, lived under the Canadian health care system — before moving to the United States in 1991 and becoming a citizen in 2006 — and she’s not excited about America’s health system heading in the same direction.
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Math lesson
Orange County Register Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
3.15.2009
Jack O'Connell, California's superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week's latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would better inform the education policy debate.
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Obama’s blurred health care vision
East Valley Tribune (AZ) Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
3.14.2009
Recently, President Barack Obama signed a measure to throw another four million children on the mercy of government-rationed health care. At the bill-signing ceremony, he described the new law as a “down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.”
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State-run health care advocates try again
Orange County Register
3.13.2009
Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto is all that saved Californians from suffering government-run universal health care. He properly complained it looked too much like socialized medicine. A similar proposal has been introduced again in the Legislature. If it passes, would the governor still disapprove? Or will health care be the next free-market principle Mr. Schwarzenegger sheds on his steady march leftward?
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FED FOCUS-Internal dissent over Fed action won't halt policy
Reuters News Clipping
By: Alister Bull
3.13.2009
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Some Federal Reserve insiders are breaking ranks in alarm over action by the U.S. central bank to tackle the credit crisis, but this unusually blunt display of dissent will not force a reversal in policy.
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U. S. moving in wrong direction with card check
Foster's Daily Democrat (NH) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
3.12.2009
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a likely hot button for the Obama administration, would fundamentally alter the balance of power in the U. S. labor market and impose enormous costs on workers. Ironically, as America moves to fundamentally change the way unions are certified, other countries, like Canada, are moving away from these very same laws because they just don't work.
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Don’t Blame Drugs for Health-Care Costs
National Review Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.11.2009
In the opening pages of his recently released budget, Pres. Barack Obama describes the rising cost of health care as “one of the big drains on family budgets and on the performance of the economy as a whole.” Later in the budget, he suggests that America spends too much on prescription drugs — implying that drug prices are responsible for our high health-care costs. This is a popular misconception, and it will likely hinder Obama’s plan to revamp the U.S. health system.
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Canada's big chance
Financial Post (CN) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis
3.10.2009
Yesterday, Prime Minister Harper highlighted his government’s plans for dealing with the economic slowdown and presented the crisis as an opportunity for Canada: “Ultimately, it is an opportunity to position ourselves so that when the recovery comes, we’re among the first to catch the wave.”
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Obama administration policies not American
Renew America News Clipping
By: Wes Vernon
3.9.2009
The just-concluded health care "summit" at the White House was so much window dressing, giving the appearance of hearing from "all sides" before Barack Obama, this nation's most committed socialist president, gets his government-controlled health care plan enacted.
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Some states are more free than others
Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) News Clipping
3.9.2009
If you expect state and local government to provide a life for you and your family, you live in the wrong place. If you think government should create a job for you, you're in the wrong place.
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Turning America into a Blue State; Bad Idea?
Bigger Pockets
By: Brendan O'Brien
3.7.2009
Some of the right-wing blogs I read are convinced that President Obama sincerely wants to destroy entrepreneurship in this country. This is nonsense. Obama loves entrepreneurship, but he would like to make a few changes to it. It’s the nature of the changes that worries me. If these changes worry you as well – and if they don’t, read on – you need to do something about it.
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Fox News: And Health Care for All?
Fox TV Business News Video Segment
3.6.2009
Pacific Research Institute President & CEO Sally Pipes on possible tax increases under the Obama administration's health-care plan.
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Health 'Reformers' Ignore Facts
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.6.2009
The Democrats' case to expand government health care is so full of holes that passing it quickly is their only hope. If Americans slow down and ask questions, they will be hard-put to come up with answers.
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Tax credits urged
Oklahomam (OK) Letter to the Editor
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.6.2009
Regarding "Oklahoma House panel passes health care bills” (news story, Feb. 24): I commend lawmakers in the Oklahoma House for promoting consumer-directed health plans and health savings accounts.
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Can the Obama Administration Spare Some Real Change?
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
3.6.2009
The Obama administration is ushering in a new era of big government, higher taxes and more spending, to an extent that even supporters are worried. The tech-savvy president should consider recent suggestions from the technology and science sector, such as the idea that not all problems can be solved by simply throwing money at them.
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New Mexico's economic freedom needs boost
Clovis News Journal (NM) News Clipping
3.5.2009
Are you someone who values freedom above all else, including health, safety and welfare? If so, New Mexico has a ways to go to reach the top tier of states.
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KQED Radio - Forum: Obama Care
KQED Radio - NPR - San Francisco Audio Clipping
3.5.2009
President Obama held a health care summit at the White House to discuss his proposal for setting aside a $634 billion, 10-year reserve fund to help pay for universal coverage and to improve the system. PRI's John Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, participated in KQED's "Forum" with Michael Krasny, which previewed Obama's reform proposals.
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Porky omnibus bill slides past Obama
KGO-TV (ABC) San Francisco TV News Clipping
By: Mark Matthews
3.2.2009
Over the weekend President Barack Obama's staff made it clear he is going to sign the omnibus spending bill. In doing so, Obama is going back on his campaign promise to cut earmarks.
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President Obama's Health Care Reform Efforts To Face Challenges
California Healthline News Clipping
3.2.2009
Efforts by President Obama to reform the U.S. health care system are "likely to be fraught with detours, potholes and perils" based on initial concerns about related provisions in his fiscal year 2010 budget proposal, as well as the current federal deficit, CongressDaily reports (Edney, CongressDaily, 3/2).
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Nothing Paradoxical About Thrift
Library of Economics and Liberty Op-Ed
3.2.2009
To address our current economic woes, classically-minded economists argue that the government should get out of the way and let the market heal itself. They warn that massive government "stimulus" packages only divert resources away from the private sector, thus delaying recovery.
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Bam's Bad Medicine
New York Post Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.2.2009
Obama's new budget dedicates $634 billion over the next 10 years to what he calls health reform. He promises - or perhaps threatens - that this vast sum will be a down payment for universal coverage, which could require more than $1 trillion.
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Make health insurance affordable
Tulsa World (OK) Letter to the Editor
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.2.2009
I commend lawmakers in the Oklahoma House for promoting consumer-directed health plans and health savings accounts ("State House panel passes health care bill," Feb. 24).
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The stimulus bill and American health care
Orange County Register Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
3.1.2009
Tom Daschle's nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services misfired, but that has not stopped President Barack Obama from loading billions of dollars onto the wagon of government-run health care. And he wants to shovel them in as fast as possible.
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Health 2.0 Empowers Patients, Challenges Status Quo
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Katie Flanigan
3.1.2009
Spearheading a new trend in health care, patients around the world are uniting via social networks to discuss and obtain help in combating chronic illnesses.
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National Priorities Partnership" agenda is elitist
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
3.1.2009
An alliance of 28 health care stakeholders—including consumer groups, providers, health plans, and government organizations—has released an agenda for what its members say are needed reforms to the U.S. health care system.
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Oakland Charter Schools "Do What Works," and Outperform Their Peers
Providence Financial Charter School Business Newsletter
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
3.1.2009
President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have stated their support for strong, successful charter schools in the United States. In fact, the new motto for the U.S. Department of Education is “Do what works.” The president and his administration should consider results from California as a model of what is working for inner-city schools.
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Florida Legislature Rejects Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Katie Flanigan
3.1.2009
The Florida House of Representatives has rejected a proposal to increase the state tax on cigarettes by $1 per pack in an effort to sustain the state’s Medicaid program and finance other proposed health improvement efforts.
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California Considers Deep Education Cuts
School Reform News (Heartland Institute)
By: Ben DeGrow
3.1.2009
California school officials and education reformers are wrestling with the specter of multibillion-dollar education budget cuts in 2009.
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Looming Doctor Shortage Calls for Market Solutions
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Elisha Maldonado
3.1.2009
The Association of American Medical Colleges projects the United States will have 124,000 fewer doctors than it needs by 2025, resulting in a national dependence on nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants to manage increasing patient loads and provide patients with adequate care.
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New M.D.s Can Find Shift to Real World Difficult
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
3.1.2009
Medical schools with health information technology-rich programs could be setting students up for a tough transition to the real world, according to a report from the Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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