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California hospitals' unhealthy dependence on government
The Orange County Register
By: John R. Graham
1.30.2012
While many Americans are eager for the U.S. Supreme Court this year to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a federal judge in Los Angeles has just made a misguided decision that cuts right to the root of the government's role in controlling people's access to medical care, whether state legislators or federal judges have the power to decide how much to spend from the state treasury and health care providers' unhealthy and unsustainable dependency on government.
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Stop Rewarding Irresponsiblity
New York Times
By: Steven Greenhut
1.26.2012
During the State of the Union, President Obama called for a new era of responsibility, and declared that there will be “no bailouts,” yet he offered a supposed solution for the ongoing mortgage crisis that rewards irresponsibility by promising even more bailouts for “underwater” homeowners.
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American Soldiers Deserve Cutting-Edge Health Care
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.24.2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently expounded upon the tough choices policymakers will face as they attempt to scale back the Pentagon’s budget. As Panetta put it, our leaders will have to consider not just the “weaponization, modernization side” of the military but “the human side” as well.
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California Schools Behind the Curve
The Orange County Register
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.24.2012
Gov. Jerry Brown said in his State of the State address that the so-called "declinists," those who worry about California's place in the nation and the world, are wrong. He pointed to areas where the state is supposedly ahead of rivals, like Texas, Massachusetts and New York.
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Hi, Doc. I'm from the government
The Orange County Register
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.17.2012
Officials in California just announced that they were working with Harvard University doctors Jerry Avorn and Michael Fischer to overhaul how painkillers are prescribed to disabled workers in the state.
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Where to start in repealing Obamacare
The Washington Examiner
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.17.2012
On March 23, 2010, President Obama forever altered the American health care system by signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. Its advocates promised that the measure would reinvent American health care and reinvigorate the American economy.
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Don't trust the locals yet
Sacramento Bee
By: Steven Greenhut
1.13.2012
California's redevelopment agencies were corrupt and had to go. But it's hardly obvious that re-empowering local officials with "new and improved" economic development authority is a wise idea.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/11/4178469/what-should-be-the-future-of-redevelopment.html#storylink=cpy
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Private schools make changes to stay afloat
The Orange County Register
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.13.2012
Private schools in Orange County are struggling to maintain and boost student enrollment in the down economy but are reporting that the steep enrollment slides they endured a few years ago are reversing as parents become increasingly frustrated by class sizes and budget cuts in public schools.
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Rejecting health-care exchanges
The Post and Courier
By: Sally C. Pipes, Hal Scherz
1.5.2012
The Internal Revenue Service recently held a hearing that could have major ramifications for Obamacare's much-ballyhooed insurance exchanges. The agency is trying to change the way the federal government hands out subsidies through the exchanges.
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