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Cap and Trade: The government’s new pet market
Encore Online (Wilmington, NC)
6.29.2009
While most Americans are distracted by the situation in Iran and the vital current healthcare debates, Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are attempting to rush through one of the most draconian realignments of energy policy in the nation’s history. This legislation proposes a cap on carbon emissions with permits that are tradable between companies. Known as “cap and trade,” it’s better described as “cap and tax.”
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Canadian Health Care: The End of Innovation? - ABC News
ABC News
By: John Stossel, Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Kirell
6.26.2009
President Obama said that the government is going to "fix what is broken about health care in America." It sounds like a great idea, but often what sounds good has unintended consequences. John Stossel discovers some dead-serious drawbacks to socialized medicine.
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The Flawed Focus of Universal Broadband
Tech News World
6.26.2009
This month, the Federal Communications Commission begins drafting a national broadband plan as part of the 2009 stimulus package. This is not the first government attempt at broadband ubiquity, so the FCC can learn from past failures.
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The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
The Wall Street Journal
6.26.2009
President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It's hard to miss the irony that he's pitching this change in Washington even as the same governance model is imploding in three of the largest American states where it has been dominant for years -- California, New Jersey and New York.
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I Have to Admit, I Was Wrong
Cato Institute Blog
By: Andrew Coulson
6.26.2009
I’ve just discovered that my calculation of DC education spending per pupil was wrong, and I have to publish a correction.
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ObamaCare Isn't Inevitable
Wall Street Journal
By: Karl Rove
6.25.2009
While still good, President Barack Obama's political health is deteriorating, threatened by what he thought would be balm -- his ambitious plan for a government takeover of health care.
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ObamaCare’s False Promises
Frontpage Magazine
By: Jamie Glazov
6.25.2009
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Sally Pipes, the president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care" (Pacific Research Institute , 2008).
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Massachusetts' Health Care Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
6.24.2009
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed a first in the nation “universal” health care bill in 2006. Massachusetts’ health care plan includes an “individual mandate” and generous subsidies through a quasi-government health insurance plan known as “Commonwealth Care.” So how well are the Democrats in Massachusetts doing at controlling health care costs?
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CTIA Seeking Mobile Health Care Mandate
InternetNews.com
By: Kenneth Corbin
6.24.2009
WASHINGTON -- The trade association representing the wireless industry is ramping up its mHealth campaign to raise awareness of the potential of mobile devices to improve the nation's health care system.
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Myths, Lies and Stupidity About Health Care
Townhall.com
By: Ben Shapiro
6.24.2009
President Barack Obama's health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren't supposed to worry about that.
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Not Surprisingly, Howard Dean Favors Public Health Plan
National Review - The Corner
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.24.2009
Former governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic party Howard Dean, not surprisingly, endorses President Obama’s desire for a public health-plan option. He has been a supporter of a single-payer health-care system for years, and celebrating the idea as a stepping stone to a fully government-run system.
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Health-Care Myths
EMac's Stock Watch - Fox Business News
By: Elizabeth MacDonald
6.23.2009
The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
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Will Cap and Trade Pass Congress?
The Volockh Conspiracy
By: Jim Lindgren
6.23.2009
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on cap-and-trade this week. The bill seeks to lower US per capita cabon emissions to levels below those of the US colonial period.
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The president's Trojan horse
The Washington Times Op-Ed
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D, Michael O. Leavitt
6.23.2009
During his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama addressed what he called the "illegitimate concern" that "a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system." Referring to such concerns, he added that "when you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They're not telling the truth."
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"Districts of Choice" Program a Good Choice
The Flash Report Op-Ed
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
6.23.2009
California’s Districts of Choice program allows school boards to decide if their districts will accept students from outside their boundaries, giving families more options beyond the confines of their zip code. The program has been in place for 17 years but is set to expire at the end of June, sparking debate over a replacement.
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Healthcare, part 1
The San Francisco Examiner
By: Erin Haust
6.22.2009
What to look for in the Obamacare informercial on ABC this week
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Health-Reform Traps: Universal What?
New York Post Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.22.2009
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America's economy known as its health-care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care.
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Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School
PRI Press Release
6.18.2009
San Francisco, June 18, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of its new film Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School. Using data on school performance, interviews with parents, students, principals, and school reformers, Not as Good as You Think shatters the myth that “good” schools are found in “nice” neighborhoods.
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Mountaineer Perspectives
The State Journal (WV)
By: Paul Darst
6.18.2009
As West Virginia celebrates its 146th birthday, residents ponder meaning, relevance of Montani Semper Liberi.
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A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants
The New York Times
By: Todd Woody
6.18.2009
SACRAMENTO — When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk.
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When State Governments Compete for Doctors
Let a Thousand Nations Bloom
By: Jonathan Wilde
6.18.2009
Over the last few years, Texas has become an attractive state in which to practice medicine. It has high reimbursement from insurance companies, no state income tax, a low cost of living, and since 2003, a cap on non-economic damages for physicians.
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Why Not Expand Successful G.I. Bill Concept to K-12?
Human Events
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
6.18.2009
This week marks the 65th anniversary of the Servicemembers’ Readjustment Act of 1944, today known as known as the Montgomery G.I. Bill of Rights. By putting a college education within reach of veterans, the G.I. Bill is credited with growing the American middle class and ushering in one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
The Scott Horton Show - Antiwar Radio
6.17.2009
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, and other issues.
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California's Textbook Case
CaliforniaRepublic.org
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
6.16.2009
Governor Schwarzenegger last month announced a first-in-the-nation plan to offer free digital math and science textbooks for high school students. Facing a $24 billion budget deficit, the governor touts the need for “such innovative ways to save money and improve services.” Shifting the curriculum online might help reduce the state’s yearly textbook tab of $400 million, but technology alone will do little to improve the quality of California’s public schools.
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Democrats: Increase oil and tobacco taxes to close budget gap
San Francisco Examiner News Clipping
By: Cameron English
6.16.2009
The dedicated, selfless legislators in Sacramento have been working hard to sort out California’s budget crisis. And after months and months of negotiations, they’ve come up with solution: the taxpayers can make up the $24 billion budget shortfall.
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Barry's in the house - President Obama booed at American Medical Association speech
Plastic Surgery 101
By: Dr. Rob Oliver, Jr.
6.16.2009
I was inspired to choose a picture of the two-faced Roman god, Janus, to place next to this post. In ancient Rome, Janus was used to symbolize change and transitions, but also associated with the later metaphors of being two-faced or speaking out of both sides of your mouth. Our silver tongued commander in chief managed to do that very well in an anticipated speech before doctors today.
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John Graham on KION 1460 "Mark and Jim Show"
KION 1460 Radio Interview
6.16.2009
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President's Obama's health care plan and other health care issues on the "Mark and Jim Show," KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
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PRI’s John R. Graham visits the Paddock
American Liberty Alliance - Healthcare Horserace
By: Christopher Lagan
6.15.2009
As the debate on Capitol Hill continues to focus on just how much government is too much government in the healthcare industry, we thought you might like to hear an alternative point of view. So, we enlisted John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies at San Francisco’s Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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How to Bankrupt a Country
Pajamas Media Op-Ed
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
6.12.2009
What if you found that your personal income this year will be $55,000, but you will spend $100,000 — even though you had no prior savings? And what if next year’s picture looked similar, and the year after that, and so on?
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Despite our efforts, it's hard to keep nature down
Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) News Clipping
By: Neil Reynolds
6.12.2009
The Laotian rock rat isn't a rat at all. It's a squirrel that walks upright on its hind legs and lives in limestone crevices rather than in trees. Based on the rock rat's fossil record, scientists concluded that it went extinct 11 million years ago, more or less. Thus it was big news, a few years back, when one of these long-lost rodents waddled through a food market in Thailand and ended up in a stew pot.
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Health care reform takes center stage
Contra Costa Times News Clipping
By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen
6.12.2009
Congress is bent on passing health care reform legislation this year, but Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, predicts it will fall short of what he and other Democrats want — a single-payer system.
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Discussing myths about American health care.
680 WPTF Radio (Raleigh, NC)
6.11.2009
Sally C. Pipes is interviewed on her book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and the possible government takeover of American health care on North Carolina's Morning News with Scott Fitzgerald.
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Global warming plan is pie in sky
The Wichita Eagle (KS) News Clipping
By: Jonah Goldberg
6.11.2009
Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon... ," grab your wallet.
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Obama Lies About Health Care
Rush Limbaugh Radio Show
6.11.2009
RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he's doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he's out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients' Rights is a group that's stopping Obama, and they've got a post on their website today that cracks are forming around public opinion and government-run health care.
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Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions
National Review "The Corner" Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
6.11.2009
Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said his football policy would bring every NFL team up to the standard of the Packers under their flawless new coach, Vince Lombardi.
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Boost biologics protection to improve lives
The Times (Munster, IN)
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.10.2009
Imagine you have a young daughter with psoriasis. The disease affects her immune system, creating inflamed patches on her skin and causing constant joint pain. In addition to the physical irritations, she is self-conscious about her outbreaks -- and thus finds it difficult to socialize and make friends.
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Analyzing the politics of climate change
San Francisco Examiner News Clipping
By: Blake Yount
6.9.2009
We hear it every day. News headlines read: “Global Warming Biggest Threat of 21st Century, Experts say.” (businessweek.com. May 13th, 2009. Gardner, Amanda). News anchors provide us with a choice, either we believe the scientists that support global warming hypotheses, or we reject science as a whole.
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Unmanageable healthcare in the making
The Hill Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.9.2009
Candidate Barack Obama showed bold leadership on healthcare. He promised Americans $2,500 in annual healthcare savings and a path to universal coverage. He attacked his Democratic opponent for insisting on an individual mandate to purchase health insurance. He blasted his Republican opponent for seeking to tax employer-provided healthcare.
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Government is not your nanny—reject the federal soda tax.
San Francisco Examiner
By: Cameron English
6.9.2009
In order to cover the exorbitant cost of President Obama’s universal health care program, the Senate Finance Committee has proposed, among other things, that the government levy additional taxes on alcohol, soda, and other sugar-sweetened beverage.
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Health-Care Bill Is the Ball Game
National Review Online News Clipping
By: Mona Charen
6.9.2009
You might suppose that President Obama has his hands full running two wars, administering General Motors, “rescuing” the banking system, attempting to empower unions over management, hushing up whispers about hypocrisy regarding Guantanamo detainees, managing the mortgage crisis, imposing “clean energy” on the nation, handling nuclear North Korea and nearly nuclear Iran, “stimulating” the economy, reviving the “peace process” between Palestinians and Israelis, inaugurating a new relationship with Russia and with the Muslim world, and reversing the rise of the world’s oceans, but no, he has one more agenda item — overhauling U.S. health care.
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Overdosing on Obama Healthcare
New American News Clipping
By: William P. Hoar
6.9.2009
George Stephanopoulos informed ABC television watchers on May 11 that this is “probably the best chance we’ve had in 15 or 16 years to actually get a comprehensive health care plan through.” The major difference between now and 1994, when the Clinton administration failed to push through its healthcare overhaul, is that today’s industry groups would “rather switch than fight,” he said.
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Soda tax proposal should fizzle out
Washington Examiner (Washington, DC) Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.8.2009
President Obama has promised the American people that full-scale healthcare reform will be enacted by the end of this year. The decidedly less-inspiring task of determining how to pay for his $1.2-trillion reform package has fallen to congressional lawmakers.
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How Health Care Stole Your Pay Raise
Atlantic Business Channel
By: Derek Thompson
6.3.2009
This amazing graph bouncing around the web is the most striking example of why health care reform isn't just about reforming care. It's about reforming the economy. New bumper sticker: "Reform Health Care; Get a Raise!"
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Canadians seeking health care have a 'wait problem'
Washington D.C. Examiner Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.3.2009
It's the start of what promises to be a beautiful spring day. But not for you. As the first rays of sunshine filter through your bedroom window, a searing pain settles into your head. You pop an aspirin after shuffling out of bed, drink plenty of water throughout the day, and head to bed early that evening.
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New Deal Reality Check
Accuracy in Media News Clipping
By: Malcolm Kline
6.3.2009
As self-proclaimed intellectuals get embarassingly excited over the prospect of a new, New Deal, the rest of us would do well to take every opportunity to examine how the first one turned out. For one thing, it didn’t start under Roosevelt.
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Why No Health Tax Reform? A Conservative’s Inside View
KQED Healthy Ideas: Californians Weigh In On Health Care
By: John R. Graham
6.3.2009
Mr. Wulsin has done a great job of explaining the pernicious effects of the current exclusion of employer-sponsored benefits from taxable income (which I also addressed in an earlier contribution). Mr. Wulsin and I are hardly the only ones who have noted this. Last June, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee [PDF] that “no health expert today would ever set up a health system with such an enormous tax subsidy to a particular form of insurance.”
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Shut Down Google Docs, Advocacy Group Tells FTC
Info Tech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
6.1.2009
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is calling for a federal government investigation of Google’s privacy safeguards. The group is reacting to the accidental sharing of some users’ Google Docs information in March.
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Popular Ranking Unfairly Misrepresents the U.S. Health Care System
Health and Sharing News Clipping
6.1.2009
The media and political community have made a big deal out of the fact that the U.S. ranks 37 out of 191 countries on the World Health Organization’s Health Care Ranking System. Is this tool a credible way to compare quality health care delivered in the U.S. vs the rest of the world?
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Minnesota Lawmakers Propose More Control over Health Care
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Cllipping
By: Sarah McIntosh, Joe Emanuel
6.1.2009
Minnesota legislators have announced several health care reform proposals they say will reduce health care spending by the state government to help lower the state’s looming budget deficit.
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Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School
Radio America - The G. Gordon Liddy Show
6.1.2009
Lance Izumi was a guest on Radio America, with host G. Gordon Liddy. Lance discusses the recently released documentary called, Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School, which exposes the many failing public schools in California and the misallocation of funds by school board officials.
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Florida proves what real education stimulus is
Orlando Sentinel (FL) Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
6.1.2009
Twenty-six years ago this May, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. It warned that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people."
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Study: Massachusetts Reform Not a Model
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Joe Emanuel, Colleen Watson
6.1.2009
Massachusetts’s 2006 attempt to cut health care costs and increase the number of insured through a government mandate requiring individuals to purchase insurance has become an object lesson in what not to do in reforming health care, three Harvard Medical School professors report.
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Fewer Alaska Doctors Take New Medicare Patients
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Krystle Russin
6.1.2009
Fewer than 20 percent of physicians surveyed in Alaska’s largest city are accepting new patients covered by Medicare, according to a study by the University of Alaska-Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.
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The End of Medical Miracles?
The Wall Street Journal
By: Tevi Troy
6.1.2009
Americans have, at best, a love-hate relationship with the life-sciences industry—the term for the sector of the economy that produces pharmaceuticals, biologics (like vaccines), and medical devices. These days, the mere mention of a pharmaceutical manufacturer seems to elicit gut-level hostility. Journalists, operating from a bias against industry that goes as far back as the work of Upton Sinclair in the early years of the 20th century, treat companies from AstraZeneca to Wyeth as rapacious factories billowing forth nothing but profit.
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