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FCC's Genachowski Not Neutral on New Net Rules
TechNewsWorld.com
9.30.2009
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski stirred up the Net neutrality pot last week with his speech at the Brookings Institution where he pledged to create new rules for governing the Internet. While the chairman's comments were delivered eloquently, they were problematic for a number of reasons.
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In Delivering Care, More Isn't Always Better, Experts Say
The Washington Post
By: Ceci Connolly
9.29.2009
A dirty word in health-care reform is "rationing," a term that conjures up the image of faceless government bureaucrats denying lifesaving therapies in the name of cutting costs. But what if the real issue is not the specter of future rationing, but the haphazard, even illogical, way in which care is delivered today?
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Dispelling the myths about American health care
The Small Business Advocate Show
By: Jim Blasingame
9.28.2009
Sally Pipes and Jim Blasingame examine the health care debate elements and dispel some of the myths, including the uninsured number and whether Americans will have longer waits for care under the Obama plan
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With ObamaCare in a Hole, Will the White House Stop Digging?
Hugh Hewitt's Townhall Blog
By: Hugh Hewitt
9.28.2009
Increasingly in Washington over the last few weeks, we have heard this assessment of the president’s health care upheaval prospects: Something will pass, because the president and his party have such large majorities (nearly 60 percent) in both chambers of Congress that it is inconceivable that they could not bludgeon their way to the necessary majorities. But victory will be the product of power, not debate – and it will cost them control of the House in the next election.
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A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
Washington D.C. Examiner
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.27.2009
Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has taken center stage in Washington with the release of his highly anticipated health care reform plan. His proposal will likely serve as the foundation of whatever legislation emerges from Congress.
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Michigan can’t afford ‘FDA defense’ repeal
The Oakland Press (Pontiac, MI)
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
9.27.2009
During the past 10 years, Michigan has had a declining population, a shrinking job market and the worst personal income growth of any state. Its unemployment rate is an incredible 15.4 percent, but now Michigan stands to lose even more jobs in one of the state’s remaining robust sectors.
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Torts, taxes hinder Pennsylvania's prosperity
The Tribune-Review
By: Jake Haulk, Matthew J. Brouillette
9.27.2009
Wrongheaded economic development policies and one of the nation's worst labor climates are serious impediments to Pennsylvania's prosperity. As if those obstacles were not enough, the commonwealth also has saddled itself with a tort system that deters job and income growth and a collection of taxes on business that puts the state at a severe disadvantage in startups and attracting companies and capital from out of state.
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GOP ideas are ignored
Rutland Herald (VT)
By: Kerry O'Hara
9.25.2009
OK, I'll admit it. I'm a senior fast approaching Medicare eligibility and I'm worried. I'm worried about our nation's future, and I'm worried that if President Obama's proposed health care plan goes through, Medicare will be reduced by $500 billion. There will be 30 million citizens added to the health plan. (It used to be 46 million until Obama, in response to the town hall "mobs," added the word "citizens" meaning illegal aliens would not be included). And there will be no additional doctors, nurses or hospitals to accommodate these 30 million people.
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Myths Of American Healthcare Topic Of A.U. Lecture
WMFD TV (Mansfield, Ohio)
9.25.2009
Sally Pipes, President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, was the guest speaker Thursday at Ashland University. Pipes, address "The Top Myths of American Healthcare", was part of the Fall 2009 Major Issues Lecture Series presented by the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University.
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Global Unease About Obama Administration Heard at Two Conferences
Texas Insider
By: Clark S. Judge
9.25.2009
As luck would have it, just as the Obama Administration was upending America’s global relationships for the last ten days, I was in Europe and attended two conferences on international politics. Together these conferences gave a good cross section of opinion about Mr. Obama and the U.S. in policy centers around the world. It proved not what you would expect.
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Ending estate tax will create and save jobs
San Jose Mercury News
By: Larry Reece
9.23.2009
While it may sound like a cliché, our company, like many of California's family-owned companies, could become a victim of its own success. Its future, as well as the job security of our employees, will depend in large part on the decisions Congress makes this fall on estate taxes.
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The Best States For Business
Forbes.com
By: Kurt Badenhausen
9.23.2009
The carnage of the economic downturn is everywhere with bankruptcies, foreclosures and unemployment soaring nationwide. None of the 50 states are immune. Only two, Alaska and North Dakota, are expected to see employment gains this year. Maryland, North Dakota and Virginia (by a hair) are the only states where the economy is projected to expand in 2009. Housing? Every state saw a decline in median home prices last year.
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Federal Medical Malpractice Law Would Hinder Reform
Heartland Perspectives (The Heartland Institute), Chicago, IL
By: Maureen Martin, J.D.
9.21.2009
The nation's doctors are rightly concerned about the need for medical malpractice reform, but their clamor this week for passage of a federal reform law raises troubling legal questions and likely would do little to stem malpractice case filings, says Maureen Martin, a senior fellow for legal affairs at the Heartland Institute.
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Greenhut leaving the O.C. Register
JohnSeilerBlogs.com
By: John Seiler
9.20.2009
I know what every government worker in Orange County is doing right now, this evening of Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009: Getting plastered on expensive booze, paid by their massive tax-funded salaries. They’ll be so hung over tomorrow don’t even try to do work with them.
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I'm heading to Sacramento, but don't celebrate yet.
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
9.19.2009
Many readers, especially those who receive large public pensions, will no doubt be thrilled to hear the news. This is the penultimate column I'm writing for the Register as a staff member. I'm heading to the belly of the beast, Sacramento, to start a news bureau and investigative journalism project for a free-market think tank – Pacific Research Institute – as part of the "new wave" of journalistic endeavors sprouting up across the media horizon.
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The Tedium Sea
Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs (OR)
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.19.2009
It seems that every time I check in to the Hyatt Embarcadero to visit my peeps at Pacific Research Institute there is some kind of environmental conference going on. Thursday this past week was no exception: there in the lobby were two young ladies dressed up as "orange roughies," a colorful Pacific ocean species that is, as you might guess, bright orange.
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Health-reform follies: Who's more efficient?
New York Post
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.19.2009
OF all the wishful thinking, denial of realities and blatantly false assertions that surround President Obama's push for government-dominated health care, the biggest whopper is the claim that public administration will be more efficient than private health plans.
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Haley Barbour on the Mississippi tort bar's excesses
Point of Law
By: Carter Wood
9.18.2009
Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi spoke at the Heritage Foundation today on the state's successes with tort reform, an event hosted by former Attorney General Ed Meese. During the Q&A period, Meese asked the governor about the effects of the 2004 tort reforms on the state's trial bar. In response, Gov. Barbour alluded to the criminal prosecutions and convictions involving Mississippi's most prominent trial lawyer, Dickie Scruggs. It was an interesting exchange and a useful corrective to any schadenfreude legal reformers might occasionally indulge in.
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Steven Hayward: The Age of Reagan
The Hoover Institution - FORA.tv
By: Peter Robinson
9.18.2009
Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson interviews Steven F. Hayward on his new book, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Hayward asserts that Ronald Reagan was one of the most consequential presidents in American history.
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Sally Pipes on Health Care
Future of Capitalism
9.18.2009
FutureOfCapitalism.com spoke recently with the president and ceo of the Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, as part of a series of interviews we have planned in the coming days and weeks with experts on health-care policy experts. Ms. Pipes is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care.
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My Life’s Work and Passion
Army-Ed Space
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.17.2009
Education is my life’s work and passion. I’ve spent 20 years in the field – though a lawyer by training, I became fascinated with education issues while serving as a speechwriter for former California governor George Deukmejian. I am currently serving my second term as President of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, which is responsible for managing 110 community colleges in California – the Nation’s largest system of higher education.
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What Is Socialism in 2009?
New York Times - Room for Debate
By: The Editors
9.14.2009
It seems that whatever President Obama talks about — whether it’s overhauling health care, or regulating Wall Street, or telling schoolchildren to study hard — his opponents have called him a socialist. “Socialism” was an epithet on many placards at protests in Washington over the weekend. What does the word mean today, nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? What role has the label played in American political history?
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Experts weigh in on Obama economic speech
KGO-TV News (ABC) - San Francisco
By: Mark Matthews
9.14.2009
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On the anniversary of a financial meltdown that brought Wall Street to its knees, President Barack Obama unveiled a plan he says will keep it from happening again.
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Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden
The Foundry (Heritage Foundation)
By: Lindsey Burke
9.14.2009
In socialist Sweden, universal school choice allows every parent to choose the best school for their child. The voucher program, which has been in effect since 1992 and was created to tackle the kind of problems plaguing the U.S. educational system, provides families with the opportunity to send their child to any type of school they like – public, private, religious, or even for-profit.
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Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.14.2009
For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties.
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A War on CO2? Civil Libertarians, Beware!
Master Resource
9.14.2009
It seems clear that the first major penalty man will have to pay for his rapid consumption of the earth’s nonrenewable resources will be that of having to live in a world where his thoughts and actions are ever more strongly limited, where social organization has become all pervasive, complex, and inflexible, and where the state completely dominates the actions of the individual.”
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'Environmental Justice'
The Weekly Standard
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.14.2009
So Van Jones now takes his place as the Lani Guinier of the Obama administration, undone by his radical views. Like Guinier, the ousted "green jobs" czar will doubtless employ his political martyrdom to transform himself from a minor celebrity of the left into a major celebrity of the left, with a lucrative book contract and Chomsky-level speaking fees on the college lecture circuit. But the Jones case illustrates the confluence of the environmental and civil rights movements in a way that exposes the senescence of both.
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Say No To Government Health Care
The Baltimore Jewish Times
By: Larry Greenfield
9.11.2009
Government insurance for health care—the public option—is an inappropriate cure that the American body politic is rejecting.
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Health cost crisis
The Detroit News (MI)
By: John R. Graham
9.11.2009
While campaigning across the country promoting a federal government takeover of access to medical services, President Barack Obama has repeatedly denounced rising health costs, which he claims are bankrupting families and businesses. He did so again Wednesday night in his speech to a joint session of Congress.
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Killing insurance
New York Post (NY)
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.11.2009
In his Wednesday speech, President Obama fired up the troops on the urgency of re ducing the number of uninsured in this country and achieving universal coverage via insurance regulations and forcing all Americans to buy insurance.
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Republicans Offer Solutions on Health Care
North Carolina Republican Senate Committee
9.11.2009
Raleigh, N.C. – The debate about health care reform continues as President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress last night to once again attempt to explain the details of his health care plan.
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The Experts on Obama’s Health Care Speech
Frontpage Magazine
By: Jamie Glazov
9.10.2009
Frontpage Magazine interviewed PRI's President and CEO Sally C. Pipes, and Manhattan Institute senior fellow David Gratzer, on Obama's health-care speech to Congress.
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Fixing an ailing health system
The World Today (Australia) radio
9.10.2009
John R. Graham, the Director of Health Care Studies was a guest on the Australian radio program "The World Today" with host Eleanor Hall. The topic was President Obama's health care speech
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Tackling Geithner's Town Hall
CNBC News with Larry Kudlow
9.10.2009
CNBC hosted a panel discussion featuring Murphy after its special entitled "Banking on Geithner: A CNBC Town Hall Event With The Treasury Secretary." This program premiered on Thursday, September 10, 2009.
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Shut Up, He Explained
Right Side News
By: Jacob Laksin
9.10.2009
It's a sign of how badly things are going for Barack Obama on the make-or-break issue of his tenure that the president delivered yesterday's prime time health care address in a forum traditionally reserved for national crises.
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Having It All
National Review - Critical Condition
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.10.2009
Last night, President Obama gave a passionate 48-minute address to Congress and the nation laying out his views on health-care reform. It was his 29th speech on the topic. He made the case for a government takeover of health care — even while promising that nothing will change for the 85 percent of Americans who have health insurance and like it. He emphasized that the reforms he is suggesting will not increase the deficit.
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More government health care would hurt doctors
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
By: Newt Gingrich, Nancy Desmond
9.10.2009
One key to good health and a successful health care system for all is a sufficient pool of quality physicians.
Yet according to recent Congressional testimony by Dr. Jeffrey Harris, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), we are facing a critical shortage. To quote his testimony, "The demand for primary care in the U.S. will grow exponentially as the nation's supply of primary care dwindles."
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Letters: A government boondoggle
The Bennington Banner (VT) - Letters to the Editor
By: Daniel T. Riley
9.10.2009
The Bennington Banner’s editorial, "So push the button," directs Democrats to implement the "nuclear option" to force the healthcare bill through Congress -- against the will of the American people -- and the bipartisan cooperation President Obama has repeatedly promised. Personally, I never thought the day would come when Democrats were jumping up and down about "nuking" anything -- especially healthcare.
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Obama's Teachable Moment Will Teach What?
The Flash Report
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.8.2009
The biggest problem with President Barack Obama’s speech to students, which will be broadcast and be available to the nation’s schools on September 8th, may not be what he actually says in his speech. Rather, the bigger worry involves the Obama administration’s recommendations to teachers as to how to guide student discussion and activities after the president’s talk.
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Without legal reforms, the health care system will remain broken
Austin-American Statesman (TX)
By: C. Mark Chassay, M.D.
9.8.2009
There's an old joke about the boy who goes to the doctor and uses his index finger to point all over his body, explaining, "It hurts here, here, here and here." The doctor sighs and says, "Son, your finger is broken." This poor kid was looking for his ailment in all the wrong places. That's exactly what's happening in Washington as our leaders grapple with health care reform. They're missing what's really broken.
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Finding balance not easy
Omaha World-Herald (NE)
By: Joe Dejka
9.6.2009
Nebraska's kindergarten teachers are sounding the alarm about the push for rigorous academic instruction in their classrooms, calling instead for more playtime that scientists say stimulates young brains.
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Press Coverage on the Congressional Health Care Reform Debate
Special Feature
9.5.2009
Sally C. Pipes, Jeffrey H. Anderson, and John R. Graham have been leading voices in oppositon to the government health care plan proposed in Congress this month. Click picture below to view TV interviews, opinion pieces, and media coverage of this important topic.
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Letter: House bill will penalize drug makers
mLive.com (Muskegon, MI)
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
9.3.2009
During the past 10 years, Michigan has had a declining population, a shrinking job market, and the worst personal income growth of any state. Its unemployment rate is an incredible 15.4 percent, but now Michigan stands to lose even more jobs in one of the state's remaining robust sectors.
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The Triumph Of Optimism
The Wall Street Journal - Book Review
By: John Fund
9.3.2009
You call this a crisis? Think back nearly 30 years ago. When Ronald Reagan took office the country’s economy was in a shambles—inflation was running into the double digits, growth had stagnated and the top marginal tax rate was 70%. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, bristling with imperial designs and nuclear weapons, had recently invaded Afghanistan, installing a puppet regime, and Iran had ousted a pro-Western leader in favor of a fervently anti-American cleric.
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Think tank pans Connecticut
Fairfield County Business Journal (CT)
By: Alexander Soule
9.3.2009
An enviable performance during the recession notwithstanding, a new study puts Connecticut among the bottom feeders nationally for its economic performance leading up to this year.
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How unions took $4 million from cash-strapped UC
San Diego Union-Tribune
By: Chris Reed
9.1.2009
Kevin Dayton of the Associated Builders and Contractors of California hunted down the e-mails chronicling the pressure put on University of California President Mark Yudof to provide taxpayer funds for a bogus labor "think tank" after Arnold line-item-vetoed the funding.
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Sticker Shock May Erode Public Support for Health Care Overhaul
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Thomas Cheplick
9.1.2009
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s draft health care bill may be in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own price tag, as “sticker shock” could cause what support there is for the government-centric health care transformation to ebb considerably.
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Health Overhaul Partisanship Hit
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Katie Emanuel
9.1.2009
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill remain unable to reach a bipartisan agreement on a health care reform plan, some policy analysts are questioning the congressional majority’s willingness to put partisan politics aside and work together to improve health care policy.
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Senate Finance Committee Seeks Funds for Health Care Bill
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Joe Emanuel
9.1.2009
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is working on a health care overhaul bill parallel to that proposed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s Affordable Health Choices Act, have said their draft proposal now bears a total cost of just under $1 trillion.
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LAUSD Board Moves to Ease Removal of Bad Teachers
School Reform News (Heartland Institute)
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
9.1.2009
The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District has passed a resolution to ease restrictions on firing unprofessional teachers, a move long in the making. Passed by a 4-3 vote on June 9, the resolution sets the stage for changes to state law to make such dismissals easier.
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Space needs to answer some questions
The Newark Advocate (NJ)
By: Terry Brennan
9.1.2009
Where in the world is Zack Space? He's hiding under the bed. He's seen the town hall meetings on the news, and he's afraid one of us un-American, swastika-bearing mobsters will get upset with him about ObamaCare. "That's not my style," he says. Poor baby. I'm sure he'll have the courage to stand up to Nancy Pelosi, but facing a constituent is just too much to ask.
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Schumer Demands ‘Public Option’
Health Care News (Heartland Institute)
By: Aricka Flowers
9.1.2009
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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