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The Obamacare Enrollee Solution

PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
Blended Learning

The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning

Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
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Obamacare’s Latest Failure: Medicaid Expansion

Obamacare’s defenders have one less leg to stand on, thanks to a new report on the health law’s attempts to reform Medicaid. Obamacare increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid — the healthcare entitlement for low-income Americans — by allowing individuals with annual income at or below 138 percent ...
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Health Insurer Trickery Straps ER Patients With Huge Bills

Millions of emergency room patients could face financial ruin — even if they deliberately seek care at hospitals covered by their insurers. That’s the disturbing finding of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Conducted by two Yale professors, the study shows that 1 in 5 ...
California

S.F. Tries To Stop Private-Sector Second-Chance Program

As much as $32 billion is lost by retailers each year due to shoplifting. As California is 14 percent of the U.S. economy, it’s plausible that California retailers lose more than $4 billion annually to shoplifting. That’s roughly $11 million in goods leaving stores each day. The losses aren’t limited ...
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GOP’s Healthcare Proposals No Cause For Alarm

President-elect Trump recently announced that, while he still plans to repeal Obamacare, he’ll continue to guarantee coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and allow children to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. The first revelation has some insurance companies worried. As they see it, once the individual mandate ...
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Obamacare’s Subsidies Are No Excuse For High Premiums

The election of Donald Trump — who promised voters that he would if elected “repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare” — has put the future of President Obama’s health law in jeopardy. But “repeal-and-replace” cannot happen until after the inauguration on January 20. And that means that the millions of Americans ...
California

Trump Election Inspires New “Calexit” Movement

Forgive the understatement, but Donald Trump’s election didn’t go so well in some quarters. We’ve seen inconsolable weeping, bitter protests, riots that appear to be professionally orchestrated, and a flood of Internet assassination threats. It is discouraging that a democratic election produced such a spiteful reaction. Regrettably, California, where 62 ...
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Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?

Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
California

Clean Power Plan Will Hurt California’s Most Vulnerable

California’s relatively mild climate means that, on average, our electricity bills are a smaller portion of our incomes relative to the rest of the country. But that doesn’t protect us from the increased costs of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a federal effort to cut emissions. Nor does it mean ...
Commentary

The Obamacare Enrollee Solution

PRI’s Sally C. Pipes talks with Mary Kissel on Opinion Journal about how Congress can repeal Obamacare without stranding insured patients. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/120816opinionmedicaid_v2_ec664k.mp4
Blended Learning

The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning

Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Latest Failure: Medicaid Expansion

Obamacare’s defenders have one less leg to stand on, thanks to a new report on the health law’s attempts to reform Medicaid. Obamacare increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid — the healthcare entitlement for low-income Americans — by allowing individuals with annual income at or below 138 percent ...
Commentary

Health Insurer Trickery Straps ER Patients With Huge Bills

Millions of emergency room patients could face financial ruin — even if they deliberately seek care at hospitals covered by their insurers. That’s the disturbing finding of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Conducted by two Yale professors, the study shows that 1 in 5 ...
California

S.F. Tries To Stop Private-Sector Second-Chance Program

As much as $32 billion is lost by retailers each year due to shoplifting. As California is 14 percent of the U.S. economy, it’s plausible that California retailers lose more than $4 billion annually to shoplifting. That’s roughly $11 million in goods leaving stores each day. The losses aren’t limited ...
Commentary

GOP’s Healthcare Proposals No Cause For Alarm

President-elect Trump recently announced that, while he still plans to repeal Obamacare, he’ll continue to guarantee coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and allow children to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. The first revelation has some insurance companies worried. As they see it, once the individual mandate ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Subsidies Are No Excuse For High Premiums

The election of Donald Trump — who promised voters that he would if elected “repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare” — has put the future of President Obama’s health law in jeopardy. But “repeal-and-replace” cannot happen until after the inauguration on January 20. And that means that the millions of Americans ...
California

Trump Election Inspires New “Calexit” Movement

Forgive the understatement, but Donald Trump’s election didn’t go so well in some quarters. We’ve seen inconsolable weeping, bitter protests, riots that appear to be professionally orchestrated, and a flood of Internet assassination threats. It is discouraging that a democratic election produced such a spiteful reaction. Regrettably, California, where 62 ...
Commentary

Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?

Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
California

Clean Power Plan Will Hurt California’s Most Vulnerable

California’s relatively mild climate means that, on average, our electricity bills are a smaller portion of our incomes relative to the rest of the country. But that doesn’t protect us from the increased costs of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a federal effort to cut emissions. Nor does it mean ...
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