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Why the Utah Health Exchange is No Model for Health Reform
Capital Ideas
By: John R. Graham
7.28.2011
The Utah Health Exchange is the model some conservatives believe can be used to push back against Obamacare. Witness the Wall Street Journal (July 16) soundly rejecting regulatory guidance on what the Administration is now calling “Affordable Insurance Exchanges,” but encouraging governors to get on the exchange bandwagon, in the hope they can build free-market exchanges that will blunt Obamacare’s worst effects.
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It’s Time to Neuter California’s Legislature
Capital Ideas
By: Katy Grimes
7.19.2011
In June, several California legislators complained about having their pay cut by state Controller John Chiang because the budget they submitted by the June 15 constitutional deadline - the only deadline they seem to care about - was unbalanced. This latest budget drama shows why California needs a part-time legislature.
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Educated Legislators, Bad Economy
Capital Ideas
By: Alison Meyer
7.6.2011
California has the most educated legislators, according to a recent Chronicle of Higher Education study. Those stellar academic credentials, unfortunately, have not lifted the state from its economic malaise.
California’s unemployment rate, as of May, is nearly 12 percent, higher than every state in the bottom five of the study. Even when averaged together, the top 15 educated states have an unemployment rate of 8.9 percent compared to the least educated which has an average unemployment rate of 8.1 percent.
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