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Medical Savings Accounts and Public Health Care Reform in California
Action Alerts
By: Mark Schiller, M.D.
8.12.1998
In 1994, Congress resoundingly rejected President Clinton’s managed-competition health plan. That same plan, however, remains alive and well in California, which operates two state-mandated health-plan purchasing cooperatives — CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) and HIPC (Health Insurance Plan of California). These state-run programs offer only managed-care options, limiting choice for California’s public and small-business employees.
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CALFed Should consider Water Markets, Not More Water Projects
Action Alerts
By: Erin Schiller
8.10.1998
Governor Pete Wilson and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt recently announced that CALFED, the federal-state task force responsible for developing a water supply plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta, will not reach a decision until late 1999, one year later than scheduled. The delay gives policymakers time to get to the heart of the issue: California’s water shortage problem is not one of supply, but one of poor allocation.
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Parental Contracts Vs. Parental Rights
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.10.1998
How do we better involve parents in the education of their children? Answering that question is turning out to be a key area of discussion in this year’s election campaign. One increasingly publicized prescription now being bandied about on the campaign trail is the concept of mandatory parental contracts.
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Women are Invested in Social Security Reform
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
8.5.1998
Perhaps he was hoping to make headlines that didn’t include the name "Starr," but President Clinton shocked his union pals this week by voicing qualified support for including individual retirement accounts – or partial privatization – as a part of any plan to reform Social Security. The President’s tentative acceptance of a role for private markets in reforming Social Security bodes very well for the future of retirement security in this country. And retirement security is certainly a significant issue for women.
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Fearful Symmetry
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
8.4.1998
If there is one thing that terrifies the Clintons and sends his spinners into hyperdrive, it is the comparison to Richard Nixon and Watergate. The possibility that Clinton might have to make his own "Checkers speech" has deepened the inevitable comparison between Slick Willie and Tricky Dick. But even if Clinton has lied, the spinners harumph, it is simply not comparable to the magnitude of Watergate.
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