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Schumer Demands "Public Option"
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Aricka Flowers
7.31.2009
Senior Senate Finance Committee member Charles Schumer (D-NY) has vowed to “ignore” all health care overhaul legislation that does not include plans to create a government-run health insurance plan, or “public option,” and have it compete “on a level playing field” with private insurance plans.
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Obamacare's Error
The New York Post
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.31.2009
DON'T be distracted by the inside-the-beltway haggling over arcane details -- ponder the big picture and apply common sense to the claims of our would-be health reformers.
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King City takeover shows gap between spending and achievement
The Flash Report
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
7.31.2009
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell held a news conference on Thursday to announce the appointment of Dr. John Bernard as the state administrator for the King City Joint Union High School District in Monterey County. The state takeover of the district was required by law after the district was granted a state loan to avoid bankruptcy.
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Competition, Not Control, Will Improve Schools
Freedom Politics
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.30.2009
U.S. Rep. John P. Kline, Minnesota Republican recently gained the ranking minority slot on the House Education and Labor Committee, a signal that Republicans are re-thinking their support for federal education activism in favor of local control, their old-time religion. The GOP should remember that government control, at any level, has been the bane of education and that systemic reform will only occur with universal school choice.
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Californians’ Global Warming Fervor Cools
The New York Times - Energy and Environment
By: Felicity Barringer
7.30.2009
Californians’ eagerness to battle global warming seems to be cooling a bit: The latest survey on the state’s environmental attitudes, released on Wednesday, showed that 47 percent consider the threat of global warming very serious, a decline of seven percentage points from two years ago.
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Obama's Big Spending Fallacy Could Ruin the US Economy: A History Lesson
Safe Haven
By: Gerard Jackson
7.30.2009
I'm inclined to the view that the Great Depression was a seminal turning point in the history of economic thought. Thanks to that politically-induced tragedy something like 150 years of sound economic reasoning was overturned by two mercantilist fallacies that we now call Keynesianism, the first of which was the demand deficiency fallacy.
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MAss Disaster
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.29.2009
It's worth pondering ex-Gov. Romney's promises just over three years after he crossed partisan lines to reform health care in the Bay State. The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are modeling reform on the Massachusetts model, promoting bureaucratic health exchanges, increased restrictions on health insurance and vastly expanded taxpayer-subsidized care. Like Romney, they promise more coverage at lower cost, even as the evidence suggests otherwise.
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San Francisco Style Health Care May Be Coming
The Epoch Times
By: John R. Graham
7.27.2009
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines.
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Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
Townhall.com
7.27.2009
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he won the presidency.
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One Last Hope for D.C. Voucher Program
Epoch Times (NY)
7.27.2009
In early May, President Obama presented a revised 2010 budget that included $12.2 million for the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. The proposal represented a “compromise” solution to DC’s embattled voucher program, but is hardly a gain for low-income students and their parents.
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Beware of Obama Care
The Orlando Sentinel (FL)
By: Lou Treadway
7.27.2009
If our health care system is as bad as some have suggested in “Letters to the Editor” and responses to the earlier blog, and the Canadian, U.K. and other European styled socialized health care systems are so great, then we should see Americans flocking to Canada to take advantage of that wonderful system.
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Haste makes waste has never been truer in terms of health-care reform
The Coloradoan
By: Peter Trozan
7.26.2009
Talk about crazy ideas. The NFL wants to try out a new concept during the pre-season. When the Broncos and Raiders play in Oakland, the referees will wear Raider caps and will be chosen from a pool of former and current members of the Raiders organization who have given verbal assurances of being "fair" in their calls as referees.
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Anti-Aging Technology Is No Excuse for Bad Habits
TechNewsWorld
7.24.2009
For those interested in longevity, July was a good news month. Recently published research in the journal Science shows that caloric restriction helps monkeys live longer and healthier, while a parallel study demonstrated the possibility that a drug could mimic this process.
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'Cost': Health Care's Four-Letter Word
Forbes.com
By: David Gratzer
7.24.2009
World War II veteran Jack Tagg is losing vision in his right eye. He suffers from macular degeneration, a progressive illness that causes blindness. A drug could slow the deterioration, but the British government refused to pay for it, arguing he wasn't blind enough to justify the expense since his left eye has been spared so far. Tagg's story is one of thousands of examples of rationing we hear every day from government-run health care systems.
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Cut the Budget, Arnold
Human Events
By: Jason Clemens
7.24.2009
Could things get any worse for California's economy? State unemployment in June jumped to 11.6 percent -- the highest rate on record, and among the top six nationally. Frantic negotiations between Governor Schwarzenegger and Sacramento lawmakers have yielded a deal to meet the government's $26-billion budget shortfall, but as of this writing it is not certain that the required two-thirds of legislators will approve the threatened prisoner releases and accounting gimmicks.
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A long, hot August for Obama's health plan
Washington D.C. Examiner
By: Examiner Editorial
7.24.2009
That big whoosh you hear is the air rushing out of President Obama's PR blitzkrieg to hurry Congress into approving his nationalized health care reform proposal before leaving town next week for the annual August recess. Nearly two weeks' worth of carefully orchestrated speeches and events was capped by a White House news conference Wednesday evening in which Obama said "the American people cannot afford to wait for reform any longer."
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Did Obama Accomplish Anything With His Health-Care Presser?
New York Magazine
7.23.2009
As we predicted last night, the biggest news coming out of last night's prime-time press conference was President Obama's reaction to the professor Gates arrest. But, as little attention as it's receiving, for the vast majority of the hour-long health-care presser, Obama was indeed talking about health care.
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Healthy San Francisco's taxes coming your way
San Francisco Chronicle
By: John R. Graham
7.23.2009
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal "public option" touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Newsom imagines.
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Healthcare is on Hold
CNBC News - Street Signs
7.23.2009
President Obama wants a healthcare reform bill passed before the August recess, but it may not happen. Insight with CNBC's John Harwood, Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute, and Igor Volsky, Center for American Progress health care research/blogger.
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Health Reform Puts Innovation At Risk
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.23.2009
President Obama and congressional Democrats have spelled out few details in their health reform plan. But one thing is certain — it's going to be expensive. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office puts the price tag of the current proposal from Sen. Kennedy at more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. An Associated Press report puts the Senate price tag at $1.6 trillion.
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Not Ready for the Big Leagues
National Review Online
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
7.22.2009
Ideally, our health-care system would remind one of a major-league fastball: crisp, efficient in its delivery, on-target, hitting the catcher’s mitt with a pop. Our current health-care system, burdened with too many middlemen and too little competition and choice, is more like a single-A fastball: It’s not bad, but it’s not quite good enough for the big time.
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California Counts the Cost on Climate Change Legislation
Right Side News (Kennesaw, GA)
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
7.22.2009
Last week, an investment management and advisory firm comprised of professors from California State University, Sacramento, released a report attempting to estimate the costs to small businesses - and therefore to California's economy - of implementing Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
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We'll Read the Bill, Part I: ObamaCare's Employer Mandate
Washington Times
By: David Freddoso
7.22.2009
How will ObamaCare affect you? Not in some broad political sense, but in a narrow sense -- how will it affect you as an employer, as a patient? It hasn't been easy for most Americans to find answers. House Democrats won't even commit to reading the bill they proposed.
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MSNBC: The Left Rejects Free-Market Solutions to Healthcare
NewsReal.com
By: John Perazzo
7.22.2009
Filling in for Keith Olbermann yesterday on MSNBC’s Countdown program, guest host David Shuster chastised Republicans for having no plan “to contain exploding healthcare costs.” So busy was Shuster smirking and sneering (like Olbermann) over the Republicans’ alleged indifference to those costs, that he neglected to mention Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf’s recent assessment that the Democrat healthcare plan would increase federal costs “to a significant degree” – because it plainly “raises future federal outlays more than it reduces future federal outlays.”
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The Matter With Myths
America Watches Obama
7.21.2009
With the fight over the future of the United States health care system now upon us, conservatives find themselves at a tremendous disadvantage. The Democrats are in control of the White House and Congress and they now count as allies many of the same special interest groups, such as insurers, who opposed the push for HillaryCare in 1993 and 1994.
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Healthcare Costs?
CNN News - The Lou Dobbs Show
7.21.2009
There are serious concerns not only about the cost of the president's plan, but also about the quality of healthcare. PRI President and CEO, Sally Pipes, is a guest on the Lou Dobbs Show, as well as Igor Voksky of the Center for American Progress.
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Pacific Research Institute Releases State Rankings on Health Ownership
PRI Press Release
7.21.2009
Americans continue to lack the basic freedom to make their own health care decisions according to the third edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, an annual report by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). The Index measures the degree to which individuals, be they patients, health professionals, entrepreneurs, or taxpayers, “own” the health care in their states.
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Medical Meltdown
Fox News - Glenn Beck Show
7.20.2009
Should Congress remake national health care on the Massachusetts model? That was the topic of discussion for President and CEO Sally C. Pipes, who was a featured guest on the Glenn Beck show, along with Michael Cannon, director of health studies at the Cato Institute.
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Tab for Health-Care Plan Continues to Grow
Fox Business News - Your World with Neil Cavuto
7.20.2009
Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow Jeff Anderson on the study showing the cost of government health care has been increasing at a faster rate than private health care.
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'Reform' Will Cost Us More For Less
New York Post
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.20.2009
Health care reform is turning into the ultimate bait and switch. Candidate Barack Obama promised Americans savings of $2,500, expanded coverage and no generalized tax increase in the form of an individual mandate. Yet President Obama is endorsing the 1,000-plus-page bills working their way through this liberal Congress -- which promise to expand government while exploding costs.
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Staggering Statistics Scream for Dramatic Policy Changes
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
By: Michael D. LaFaive, Dr. Michael J. Hicks
7.20.2009
New unemployment statistics are the latest in a seemingly endless series of reminders of Michigan's economic woes and policy miscalculations. The state's unemployment rate leapt to 15.2 percent in June, the 40th consecutive month Michigan has had the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
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Pension Calculus Draws New Scrutiny
The Wall Street Journal
By: Craig Karmin
7.20.2009
A California dustup over large pension payments is shining a spotlight on the practice of spiking -- increasing a salary just before retirement and boosting the lifelong payout.
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Waxman-Markey: An Exercise in Unreality
MasterResource Blog
By: Kenneth P. Green
7.20.2009
The Waxman-Markey energy bill passed by the House of Representatives is a great illustration of how the government can take an idea that sounds good in theory - emission trading - and turn it into a nightmarish piece of legislation that is larded with pork; perverted by special-interest horse-trading; and will most likely be not only ineffective, but will produce perverse and negative consequences for both the economy and the environment.
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Why not try ownership?
The Washington Times (D.C.)
By: Deroy Murdock
7.19.2009
America does not face a health care crisis. America faces a manageable challenge -- how to help a relatively small share of the population purchase health insurance. ObamaCare is too big a solution chasing too small a problem -- like hunting quail with a howitzer.
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Government Care Costs More
The New York Post
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
7.18.2009
The testimony by Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf that the health-care legislation in Congress "significantly expands" costs shocked Capitol Hill. Yet the evidence shows that government-run care has always been more costly than private-sector care.
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Reformers' Claims Just Don't Add Up
Investor's Business Daily
7.17.2009
Health Reform: Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care "reforms" now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false.
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Commissioner Dan Weighs In On Health Care Reform
True North (MN)
By: Nathan McLaughlin
7.17.2009
First, I am concerned because of the reason why this reform is supposedly needed. The reason why many people believe we need this reform is the fact that we have 45-50 million uninsured people in America. I do not believe this is a good reason.
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Rep. Tom McClintock and "California's Meltdown"
GlobalWarming.org
By: Richard Morrison
7.17.2009
CEI and the Pacific Research Institute recently co-hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on “California’s Meltdown” - the unprecedented combination of flawed economic, energy and environmental policies that have left the state with a massive budget deficit and facing even tougher times ahead.
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The Canadian Healthcare Experience
Cato Institute - Cato Daily Podcast
By: Caleb Brown
7.16.2009
The Canadian experience with national healthcare has produced waiting lines, rationed care, and it has not produced the preventive and patient focused care that just about everyone wants. Caleb Brown of the Cato Institute presents a podcast with Sally C. Pipes.
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School-funding formula illogical and inequitable
Ventura County Star
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
7.16.2009
Concern has been mounting over how the state’s budget deficit will impact education funding. The California Teachers Association, along with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. Most experts agree California is around the middle of the pack, including the CTA’s own parent organization, the National Education Association.
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A Devastating Attack on Prosperity
Right Angles - John Locke Foundation
By: Donna Martinez
7.15.2009
The brightest, most productive, most skilled, most entrepreneurial men and women in this country are in the financial crosshairs of the House Democrats’ healthcare “reform” plan. This proposal would have a devastating negative impact on job creation and wealth creation, creating a bold disincentive to work, create, and innovate.
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Let's Can the Public Plan
Freedom Politics
By: John R. Graham
7.15.2009
President Barack Obama wants to sign a health “reform” bill by October. Democratic congressional leaders are doing their part to satisfy the president, promoting bills that threaten to government’s role, at the expense of patients and doctors.
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Why We Must Ration Health Care
The New York Times
By: Peter Singer
7.15.2009
You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?
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Obama fast becoming Canada's best friend
eVancouver Sun
By: Barbara Yaffee
7.15.2009
Canada has a new secret weapon. His name is Barack Obama.
At least, that's one interpretation of negative fiscal consequences likely to flow from the Democratic president's ambitious, big-ticket government agenda and not a far-fetched one at that.
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Should US Health Care Reform Follow Canada's Single Payer System?
Fraser Institute - Fraser Fast Track
By: Leah Costello
7.13.2009
Leah Costello interviews a panel of experts, including John R. Graham, discussing whether US health care reform should follow Canada's single payer system, why investment is down in Alberta's energy industry, and new US proposals to regulate the financial markets.
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Radical health care reform is not needed
Greenville News Editorial
7.10.2009
President Barack Obama is planning some dramatic — and potentially very costly — changes to health care that simply may not be necessary to provide health insurance for millions of currently uninsured Americans.
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Patients, not lawmakers, should control health care reform
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.)
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.9.2009
Congressional Republicans — as well as some Democrats — are butting heads with President Barack Obama and his congressional allies over the latter group’s desire for a “public option” in health care. This new government-run insurance program would theoretically compete against the 1,300 private insurance companies already in existence as part of an effort to lower overall health costs.
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When Economic Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
Ludwig von Mises Institute
By: Shawn Ritenour
7.9.2009
A majority of Americans now give President Obama's handling of the economy a negative rating and many economists and city officials are concerned that Obama's gargantuan stimulus effort has not given the expected quick boost to the economy.
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Obamacare
The Manila Mail - Kibitzer's Corner
By: J.G. Azarcon, Esq.
7.8.2009
Pres. Barack Obama is on a mission to deliver free health insurance to the uninsured in the name of health care reform. What is in it for you? If you are happy with your health insurance plan, does it matter to you? Can the government afford another budget busting expenditure while the solvency of Medicare and Social Security are heading to uncertainty?
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The Economics of Climate Change
Library of Economics and Liberty
7.8.2009
During the last ten years, one of the biggest drivers of public opinion and policy has been concern over global warming or climate change. The economics of climate change uses economic theory and computer models to study the interactions among government policies, the climate system, and the economy.
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The Pacific Research Institute Releases Primer on Internet Privacy
PRI Press Release
7.7.2009
San Francisco, July 8, 2009 -- The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) announced today the release of a new report on Internet privacy and security. Click Confidential: A Privacy Primer for the Social Web, authored by Daniel Ballon, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow in technology studies, outlines the detrimental affects of government regulated privacy policy on emerging online businesses.
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Health-Care Facts and Myths Part II
Fox Business News with Brian Sullivan
7.7.2009
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care. This is the second segment of her interview with Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News.
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Health-Care Facts and Myths
Fox Business News with Brian Sullivan
7.6.2009
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
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What really works for schools
Philadelphia Daily News
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
7.6.2009
WHEN IT comes to time in school, more is not necessarily better, but more of the same is no solution, either (editorial, "24 Minutes to Better Education," June 26). The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that increasing school options, not seat time, improves student performance.
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Don't mimic the Massachusetts Way on health care reform
Washington D.C. Examiner
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.6.2009
In 2006, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was hailed as a visionary for signing one of the most expansive health reform bills in the country. "MassCare" aimed to expand health insurance, achieve universal coverage, and bring down costs through a complicated set of government controls and subsidies.
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California Could Add Nearly 180,000 New Jobs at No Cost to Taxpayers
PRI Press Release
7.6.2009
California could add some 180,000 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The research was conducted for the nonprofit American Family Business Foundation (AFBF) in Washington, DC.
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Obama's Stimulus is Proving as Disastrous as FDR's New Deal
Frontpage Magazine
By: Vasko Kohlmayer
7.6.2009
Talking about his first few months in office, President Obama said this at a fundraiser in Los Angeles: We started off in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And so what we decided to do was pass the largest economic recovery package in the history of the United States of America and we got it done in one month.
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California: The National Petri Dish
The Foundry (Heritage Foundation)
7.2.2009
Supposedly, trends start in California and then spread to the rest of the country, a notion that seems to be confirmed by the latest economic news. In May, California’s unemployment rate hit 11.5 percent—the highest it has been since 1941. This morning we learn that unemployment for the entire country hit 9.5 percent in June—the highest rate in 26 years.
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Coming Soon: The Nightmare From Up There
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.2.2009
In his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama counseled Americans to beware "dire warnings about socialized medicine and government takeovers; long lines, and rationed care; decisions made by bureaucrats and not doctors."
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Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
Philippine Daily Mirror
7.2.2009
This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. A novel treatment called Herceptin, though, is offering hope. When combined with chemotherapy, studies indicate that it lowers the risk of breast cancer relapse by about 50 percent. And a new bill in Washington could ensure that treatments like Herceptin continue to be developed.
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Rendell keeps digging deeper hole for Pa.
Pottstown Mercury - Pottstown, PA
By: Tony Phyrillas
7.2.2009
The new fiscal year for Pennsylvania began July 1. Just one little problem. The state opened the new budget year without a budget. Don't fret too much. It's not like we haven't been down this road before. Ed Rendell has missed the budget deadline every year since taking over as governor in 2003.
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Chicago May Use Red Light Cameras to Catch Uninsured Drivers
InfoTech & Telecom News (The Heartland Institute)
By: Aricka Flowers
7.1.2009
The city of Chicago is considering a new use for red light cameras: nabbing uninsured drivers. Technology experts and civil liberties advocates call the idea a violation of privacy and a misuse of traffic cameras the city originally justified for safety reasons.
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North Dakota Rejects State Health Expansion
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Colleen Watson, Katie Flanigan
7.1.2009
The North Dakota legislature has rejected a measure to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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Fixing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: More money and power—or more competition?
Drug Discovery News
By: John R. Graham
7.1.2009
Of all President Obama’s high-profile appointments, Dr. Margaret Hamburg’s nomination as U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner was probably the easiest. Coasting through the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee to an unqualified chorus of praise, the eminently qualified Hamburg takes over an agency that many people believe is underfunded, understaffed and ill-equipped to face the threats of a world in which food and drugs move across borders and out of laboratories with barely a glance of a regulatory eye passing over them.
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ABC Pulls John Stossel’s Canadian Healthcare Piece
Newsmax.com
By: Dave Eberhart
7.1.2009
John Stossel, ABC News’ co-anchor of “20/20” and a New York Times best-selling author, likes to take a skeptical look at a wide array of issues, but hold the phone on his new healthcare special — it was pulled to make room for yet more coverage of Michael Jackson.
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Restaurant Menu Labeling Mandate Debated
Health Care News (The Heartland Institute)
By: Joe Emanuel
7.1.2009
Citing a need to curb childhood obesity, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has signed on as Senate sponsor of a federal bill to require calorie counts on restaurant menus.
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"Better" Health Care?
Real Clear Politics
By: John Stossel
7.1.2009
President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.
In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth.
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The Matter With Myths
The American Spectator
By: Philip Klein
7.1.2009
With the fight over the future of the United States health care system now upon us, conservatives find themselves at a tremendous disadvantage. The Democrats are in control of the White House and Congress and they now count as allies many of the same special interest groups, such as insurers, who opposed the push for HillaryCare in 1993 and 1994. But the biggest obstacle conservatives face is that for decades they have allowed many myths and misleading facts about health care to permeate the national consciousness and rig the debate in the favor of those who want to expand the role of government.
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