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Building Cities From Scratch

SACRAMENTO – The plan by a group of San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists to build an entirely new city on ranch land in Solano County between the Bay Area and Sacramento has become one of the most controversial housing ...

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Harris’s Home Care Promises Unworkable, Unwise

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s new proposal to provide subsidized at-home care for seniors through Medicare has received a warm reception from many academics and advocates for the elderly. But the likely cost of this new plan — not just to taxpayers ...

The End of Violence? Not Quite.

In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California.  So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.” The numbers were indeed striking. In 1995, ...

Learn more about escalating healthcare costs

Medicare should not cover at-home care

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a plan earlier this month to add home healthcare benefits to Medicare. The plan is a fiscal fantasy. Medicare is already in a fiscal crisis, and new benefits will only make things worse. According to the Brookings Institution, covering seniors’ home care ...

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American Healthcare Broken? Says Who?

A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. health system dead last among 10 developed nations. But is healthcare in the United States really that bad? A ...

The Biosimilar Promise

Biosimilars Often Reduce Prices by 50 Percent or More

Biosimilars Often Reduce Prices by 50 Percent or More By Wayne Winegarden  | October 1, 2024 READ PDF Executive Summary   In the competitive biologic ...
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A British Lord’s Warning: Steer Clear of Single-Payer Healthcare

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords. Today, the ...

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