California
Commentary
Trump must dump the unconstitutional health insurance industry bailouts from Obamacare
On August 17, the Trump administration announced it would dole out “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies to insurers on Obamacare’s exchanges for at least another month. The decision comes despite President Trump’s repeated threats to withhold the money, which he has correctly called a “bailout” for the insurance industry. Obamacare orders insurers ...
Health Care
‘Obamacare’ opponent says ending CSR payments would weaken law
Targeting certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the best way to weaken the legislation after the failure of repeal and replace, a longtime opponent of former President Barack Obama’s health care law argues. Sally Pipes, director of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, says to start with ...
Commentary
Beware The Trojan Horses For Single-Payer Health Care
Republicans left Washington this month having failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Many Democrats and their ideological allies are using the congressional recess to crow about the GOP’s defeat — and dream about replacing Obamacare with a bonafide single-payer system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has promised to introduce a single-payer ...
California
CAPITAL IDEAS: Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export our middle class ...
California
Fight On State Election Changes
Southern California Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper joins us at his Sacramento office to talk about USC Trojans football, his bill to increase transparency in bond spending, and how Sacramento is undermining fair elections in California.
California
Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
Download the Brief In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export ...
California
Will Sacramento Finally Restore California’s Housing Market?
Our Sacramento lawmakers are promising to finally do something about the state’s runaway housing crisis after they return from their August break. Will this finally be the year they take meaningful action? Not until they show that they understand the essence of the problem. There’s no disagreement that California has ...
California
Congress Takes an Important Step to Prevent Future Droughts
Thanks to a stormy winter, California’s long drought is over says state government. But California’s man-made drought will continue as long as Sacramento misallocates our water supply. Maybe it’s time to appeal to a higher but distant authority. When Gov. Jerry Brown declared in April that the six-year “drought emergency ...
Commentary
Piecemeal Repeal Is The Least Bad Obamacare Option
The demise of the Senate’s “skinny” repeal of Obamacare may be a blessing in disguise. Nobody should have mistaken that measure for genuine repeal of the Affordable Care Act — much less for the free-market healthcare reform that most of the GOP has long clamored for. Yet the collapse of ...
California
California’s Single-Payer Bill Is Still Alive — And That’s A Shame
The Democrats’ dream of single-payer health care is alive and well in California — it’s just been temporarily deferred. In late June, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelved SB 562, the Healthy California Act, until next year. If passed, the bill would abolish private insurance and force everyone — including ...
Trump must dump the unconstitutional health insurance industry bailouts from Obamacare
On August 17, the Trump administration announced it would dole out “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies to insurers on Obamacare’s exchanges for at least another month. The decision comes despite President Trump’s repeated threats to withhold the money, which he has correctly called a “bailout” for the insurance industry. Obamacare orders insurers ...
‘Obamacare’ opponent says ending CSR payments would weaken law
Targeting certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the best way to weaken the legislation after the failure of repeal and replace, a longtime opponent of former President Barack Obama’s health care law argues. Sally Pipes, director of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, says to start with ...
Beware The Trojan Horses For Single-Payer Health Care
Republicans left Washington this month having failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Many Democrats and their ideological allies are using the congressional recess to crow about the GOP’s defeat — and dream about replacing Obamacare with a bonafide single-payer system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has promised to introduce a single-payer ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export our middle class ...
Fight On State Election Changes
Southern California Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper joins us at his Sacramento office to talk about USC Trojans football, his bill to increase transparency in bond spending, and how Sacramento is undermining fair elections in California.
Thriving Middle Class Essential to California Comeback
Download the Brief In a Fox News interview-turned-rant, CalExit leader Shankar Singam stunned host Tucker Carlson when he insisted that middle-class flight from California is “actually a good thing.” “We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do. We export ...
Will Sacramento Finally Restore California’s Housing Market?
Our Sacramento lawmakers are promising to finally do something about the state’s runaway housing crisis after they return from their August break. Will this finally be the year they take meaningful action? Not until they show that they understand the essence of the problem. There’s no disagreement that California has ...
Congress Takes an Important Step to Prevent Future Droughts
Thanks to a stormy winter, California’s long drought is over says state government. But California’s man-made drought will continue as long as Sacramento misallocates our water supply. Maybe it’s time to appeal to a higher but distant authority. When Gov. Jerry Brown declared in April that the six-year “drought emergency ...
Piecemeal Repeal Is The Least Bad Obamacare Option
The demise of the Senate’s “skinny” repeal of Obamacare may be a blessing in disguise. Nobody should have mistaken that measure for genuine repeal of the Affordable Care Act — much less for the free-market healthcare reform that most of the GOP has long clamored for. Yet the collapse of ...
California’s Single-Payer Bill Is Still Alive — And That’s A Shame
The Democrats’ dream of single-payer health care is alive and well in California — it’s just been temporarily deferred. In late June, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelved SB 562, the Healthy California Act, until next year. If passed, the bill would abolish private insurance and force everyone — including ...
