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The Other Way to Repeal Obamacare
It’s hard to see any downside to such a proposal. The federal government has clearly acquired far too much power, many members of this Congress and this administration are at a loss to name any limits to the scope of federal power, and the erosion of federalism has severely compromised ...
Business & Economics
Where the Nanny Statists Begin, the Trial Lawyers Surely Follow
Of course, bad ideas migrate quickly through the political class, so San Francisco soon passed a similar law. In this case, the momentum was achieved with help from a bloated public-health department, gorged on freshly minted tax revenue. But two counties are not enough for the trial-lawyers lobby, so they’ve ...
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Scholarship programs are gifts that keep on giving
During this season of giving, imagine if California taxpayers could give the gift of a better education to thousands — even tens of thousands — of deserving children. Today a variety of parental-choice scholarship programs across the country, including tax-credit scholarships, empower parents to send their children to the schools ...
Business & Economics
Jerry Brown’s game of chicken
SACRAMENTO – We’re about to witness a new twist on Sacramento’s annual high-stakes budget game. Many Capitol observers believe that incoming Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats, who no longer need GOP budget support thanks to the Nov. 2 passage of Proposition 25, which allows budget approval with a ...
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U.S. Health Care and U.S. Productivity: A Dissent
Indeed, while all Americans complain about health costs, the argument that our health “system” reduces our competitiveness versus other countries with “universal” health care is actually quite weak. Indeed, the percentage of all firms offering health benefits actually increased from 66 percent in 1999 to 69 percent in 2010, and ...
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Myth of the Massachusetts Health-Insurance Mandate
David Leonhardt asserts that: “…the law depends to a significant degree on the mandate. Without it, some healthy people will wait to buy coverage until they get sick — which, of course, is not an insurance system at all. It’s free-riding. Just look at Massachusetts. In 1996, it barred insurers ...
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The Fatal Move From The FDA
On Dec. 17 the Food and Drug Administration is expected to take the radical step of revoking approval for an advanced drug in the treatment of one of the country’s most deadly diseases. Avastin, an advanced treatment for late-stage breast cancer, made it through the FDA approval process back in ...
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If Obamacare is Unconstitutional, Why Aren’t Medicare & Medicaid?
Legally, the difference is that the latter two programs are government operations, whereas the individual mandate would have compelled people to buy a private product. Helvering v. Davis (1937) was the famous (or infamous) case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Social Security Act was constitutional. For a ...
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Tax Credit Scholarship Programs are Gifts that Keep on Giving
During this season of giving, imagine if California taxpayers could give the gift of a better education to thousands—even tens of thousands—of deserving children. Today a variety of parental-choice scholarship programs across the country, including tax-credit scholarships, empower parents to send their children to the schools of their choice—regardless of ...
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Education payouts lack payoff
As the budget wars unfold, federal employees complain of being targeted as overpaid bureaucrats. A better target would be redundant and counterproductive federal agencies, which seem off-limits to the media. The New York Times poster person for the issue is Iyauta Moore, a black single mother with a master’s degree ...
The Other Way to Repeal Obamacare
It’s hard to see any downside to such a proposal. The federal government has clearly acquired far too much power, many members of this Congress and this administration are at a loss to name any limits to the scope of federal power, and the erosion of federalism has severely compromised ...
Where the Nanny Statists Begin, the Trial Lawyers Surely Follow
Of course, bad ideas migrate quickly through the political class, so San Francisco soon passed a similar law. In this case, the momentum was achieved with help from a bloated public-health department, gorged on freshly minted tax revenue. But two counties are not enough for the trial-lawyers lobby, so they’ve ...
Scholarship programs are gifts that keep on giving
During this season of giving, imagine if California taxpayers could give the gift of a better education to thousands — even tens of thousands — of deserving children. Today a variety of parental-choice scholarship programs across the country, including tax-credit scholarships, empower parents to send their children to the schools ...
Jerry Brown’s game of chicken
SACRAMENTO – We’re about to witness a new twist on Sacramento’s annual high-stakes budget game. Many Capitol observers believe that incoming Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats, who no longer need GOP budget support thanks to the Nov. 2 passage of Proposition 25, which allows budget approval with a ...
U.S. Health Care and U.S. Productivity: A Dissent
Indeed, while all Americans complain about health costs, the argument that our health “system” reduces our competitiveness versus other countries with “universal” health care is actually quite weak. Indeed, the percentage of all firms offering health benefits actually increased from 66 percent in 1999 to 69 percent in 2010, and ...
Myth of the Massachusetts Health-Insurance Mandate
David Leonhardt asserts that: “…the law depends to a significant degree on the mandate. Without it, some healthy people will wait to buy coverage until they get sick — which, of course, is not an insurance system at all. It’s free-riding. Just look at Massachusetts. In 1996, it barred insurers ...
The Fatal Move From The FDA
On Dec. 17 the Food and Drug Administration is expected to take the radical step of revoking approval for an advanced drug in the treatment of one of the country’s most deadly diseases. Avastin, an advanced treatment for late-stage breast cancer, made it through the FDA approval process back in ...
If Obamacare is Unconstitutional, Why Aren’t Medicare & Medicaid?
Legally, the difference is that the latter two programs are government operations, whereas the individual mandate would have compelled people to buy a private product. Helvering v. Davis (1937) was the famous (or infamous) case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Social Security Act was constitutional. For a ...
Tax Credit Scholarship Programs are Gifts that Keep on Giving
During this season of giving, imagine if California taxpayers could give the gift of a better education to thousands—even tens of thousands—of deserving children. Today a variety of parental-choice scholarship programs across the country, including tax-credit scholarships, empower parents to send their children to the schools of their choice—regardless of ...
Education payouts lack payoff
As the budget wars unfold, federal employees complain of being targeted as overpaid bureaucrats. A better target would be redundant and counterproductive federal agencies, which seem off-limits to the media. The New York Times poster person for the issue is Iyauta Moore, a black single mother with a master’s degree ...
