Commentary
Business & Economics
Housing Crisis A Man-Made Disaster
Type “California housing crisis” into a web search engine and the results come gushing out. Dozens of stories from just the past year highlight a crunch that’s “way past a problem,” a “middle-class” disaster, “drowning renters” and “California’s most pressing challenge.” We’re living through a complete turnaround from the 1970s ...
Agriculture
With Pruitt At EPA, Oklahomans May Get Relief From Clean Power Plan
More and more Oklahomans today are living in energy poverty.Energy poverty is defined as spending more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs. More than half of those surveyed in a 2011 poll said they were having a more difficult time paying ...
Blog
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
Commentary
The Year In Commentary: Broker Commission Losses And The Future Of Healthcare
Through high-profile business acquisitions, growing regulatory activity and changing carrier relations, advisers had their hands full with business-altering activity in 2016. EBA’s most-viewed blogs of the year reflect this reality, covering the impact of the Department of Labor stepping up compliance measures and a range of ways the Affordable Care ...
Commentary
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
Agriculture
Free Market Policies Needed To Incentivize Creation Of New Life-Saving Treatments
The deaths of two patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in early 2015 were blamed in part on a drug-resistant superbug. Two years earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that a “nightmare” was coming in the form of the killer bacteria carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, also known ...
Business & Economics
Wasteful Spending By Other Names
Cutting wasteful government spending would be much easier if it were properly labeled. But, wasteful expenditures are never properly categorized as duplicitous, unnecessary, or unwarranted spending. Instead, wasteful government expenditures masquerade as important government programs with important sounding missions. With such high-minded purposes, the groups who benefit can defend their ...
Business & Economics
The Rust Belt Is Right To Blame Obama
Donald Trump hasn’t wasted time moving to revive America’s economic growth, with an emphasis on manufacturing. Critics may say the recent Carrier deal, which will save 800 American jobs, is small potatoes, but Mr. Trump’s pledge to reduce regulation is decidedly not. A new analysis confirms that the average industry’s ...
Commentary
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Blended Learning
Can Technology Help Students and Save Education in California?
Click here to watch a video of PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom. Much of the debate in education over the last few years has centered around issues of standards, curricula and testing. While very important, these issues should not obscure the possibilities ...
Housing Crisis A Man-Made Disaster
Type “California housing crisis” into a web search engine and the results come gushing out. Dozens of stories from just the past year highlight a crunch that’s “way past a problem,” a “middle-class” disaster, “drowning renters” and “California’s most pressing challenge.” We’re living through a complete turnaround from the 1970s ...
With Pruitt At EPA, Oklahomans May Get Relief From Clean Power Plan
More and more Oklahomans today are living in energy poverty.Energy poverty is defined as spending more than 10 percent of your income on electricity, natural gas, and other household energy costs. More than half of those surveyed in a 2011 poll said they were having a more difficult time paying ...
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
The Year In Commentary: Broker Commission Losses And The Future Of Healthcare
Through high-profile business acquisitions, growing regulatory activity and changing carrier relations, advisers had their hands full with business-altering activity in 2016. EBA’s most-viewed blogs of the year reflect this reality, covering the impact of the Department of Labor stepping up compliance measures and a range of ways the Affordable Care ...
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
Free Market Policies Needed To Incentivize Creation Of New Life-Saving Treatments
The deaths of two patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in early 2015 were blamed in part on a drug-resistant superbug. Two years earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted that a “nightmare” was coming in the form of the killer bacteria carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, also known ...
Wasteful Spending By Other Names
Cutting wasteful government spending would be much easier if it were properly labeled. But, wasteful expenditures are never properly categorized as duplicitous, unnecessary, or unwarranted spending. Instead, wasteful government expenditures masquerade as important government programs with important sounding missions. With such high-minded purposes, the groups who benefit can defend their ...
The Rust Belt Is Right To Blame Obama
Donald Trump hasn’t wasted time moving to revive America’s economic growth, with an emphasis on manufacturing. Critics may say the recent Carrier deal, which will save 800 American jobs, is small potatoes, but Mr. Trump’s pledge to reduce regulation is decidedly not. A new analysis confirms that the average industry’s ...
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Can Technology Help Students and Save Education in California?
Click here to watch a video of PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom. Much of the debate in education over the last few years has centered around issues of standards, curricula and testing. While very important, these issues should not obscure the possibilities ...
