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More Scrutiny for CIRM and Big-Government Health Care
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
3.26.2008
State Senator Sheila Kuehl, California’s leading partisan of government monopoly health care, has assumed the role of consumer watchdog. Her new measure, SB 1565, “Stem Cell Research – Public Accountability and Access,” targets problems with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Some may wonder if the senator should be pointing fingers, but CIRM does seem to lack accountability.
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Court Out of Touch with Reality in Homeschool Decision
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.19.2008
SACRAMENTO – The March arrest of a Los Angeles public-school assistant principal on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student is the most recent in a burgeoning line of sexual and criminal misconduct cases involving public-school teachers and administrators. Yet, a recent California court decision would force parents who homeschool because of safety, moral and educational concerns to send their children into a public-school system that is dysfunctional and often dangerous.
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Why California Farmers Go With The Flow
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
3.19.2008
The water shortage in California is leading some farmers to sell their irrigation allotments to cities and other farmers in southern California, according to an Associated Press story. It is well within their rights to do so, but while those farmers may benefit, the taxpayers will end up paying the price.
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California Health Care: Learning from history for a healthier future
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
3.12.2008
After folding on ABX 1 1, the governor now tries his hand at the state’s dwindling budget with desperate ideas to rescind tax credits and request more federal funds. As for health care, the legislature’s “new” approach is incremental change. There are few winning hands thus far.
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U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report
PRI Study
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
3.11.2008
The U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report measures the best and worst tort systems in America. The Pacific Research Institute developed the Index as a tool for governors and state legislators to assess their tort systems and to enact laws that will improve the business climates of their states.
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Calls to Inaction? Three New Books on Health Reform
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
3.11.2008
During 2007, some new books on health reform offered the same old message of single-payer, government-monopoly health care. Others offered market-based solutions but, unfortunately, rely too much on “top-down” technical innovation instead of “bottom-up” consumer preference to improve American health care. Three books not only show the wide spectrum of views, but they also typify the tendency of scholars and practitioners to offer idealist solutions to health care problems and with less diversity of individual choice.
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