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States Are Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
7.28.2010
One of ObamaCare’s first major cash flows was scheduled to start on July 1: $5 billion to bail out states’ so-called “high-risk pools” until January 1, 2014. A full 22 states want nothing to do with it, a drastic choice in times of broken budgets but nevertheless the right choice.
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Leviathan’s Drug Problem
PRI Study
By: John R. Graham
7.27.2010
This study concludes that allowing American patients to access medicines that have already been approved in Europe would increase regulatory competition, enable more patient choice, and potentially save the lives of those suffering life-threatening illnesses and who currently have no treatment options.
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Is it “bigotry” to shrink state government?
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
7.21.2010
Those who believe California state government is too large, and that we ought to make it smaller, are guilty of “conventional bigotry aimed at state employees.” So writes state employee Peter S. Brand in the July 6 Sacramento Bee. The charge will prove educational for all Californians.
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Why the Going is Tough for High-Cost Legislation on Climate Change
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
7.20.2010
For those favoring legislation on climate change, these should be the best of times. The Democrats, typically the party of the greens, are in control at the federal level. The BP disaster in the Gulf might, under other circumstances, be a motivator for major changes to rules affecting oil drilling and consumption. Several investigative committees have largely cleared the scientists involved in last November’s “Climategate” scandal of any major wrongdoing. But none of that is translating into any movement on climate policy, and that scandal is part of the reason.
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National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
PRI/PI Study
7.19.2010
Adopting the final draft of proposed national education standards in English language arts (ELA) would result in a significant weakening of the intellectual demands placed on Massachusetts and California students in language and literature, according to a review published jointly by the Pacific Research Institute and Pioneer Institute.
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Medical Tort: Ranking the 50 States
Health Policy Prescription
By: John R. Graham
7.13.2010
Eight variables contribute to a medical-tort index that measures all 50 states’ success at reforming medical-tort laws to mitigate these problems, and provides a partial update to the 2009 U.S. Index of Health Ownership.
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Census Nonsense
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
7.6.2010
Some 2010 Census results are in, and Contrarian readers will be pleased to know that feminist organizations are already hard at work massaging the data to fit their tired narrative. This is a difficult task, however, as the Census heralds mostly good news for women.
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