Commentary
Commentary
Strickland Aims To Require Voter Approval Before Making Health Care Mandatory
KHTS Hometown Station, February 25, 2010 This morning State Senator Tony Strickland proposed Senate Constitutional Amendment 29, which if passed will require voter approval of any state or federal measure implementing a healthcare program that: Requires individuals to obtain health coverage; Requires individuals to guarantee issuance of health coverage; Creates ...
John R. Graham
February 25, 2010
Commentary
Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact
Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 25, 2010
Commentary
It’s Summit Day in Washington
Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via budget reconciliation ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
February 25, 2010
Commentary
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 25, 2010
Business & Economics
Medical malpractice back on the table?
A spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association, Darren McKinney, suggested that those estimates are too low and pointed to other studies that have found more significant potential for savings. Lawrence McQuillan of the Pacific Research Institute, for example, has suggested that defensive medicine costs $191 billion a year, which ...
Lawrence J. McQuillan
February 24, 2010
Commentary
Milwaukee School Choice Program Sets Example for California, Nation
Low-income Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend independent schools have a graduation rate 18 percent higher than students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), according to Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008, a new report by John Robert Warren of the University of Minnesota. California would ...
Vicki E. Murray
February 24, 2010
Commentary
Obama’s Summit Challenge
The discussion will focus around four main themes: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit, and increasing coverage. The president has stated many times that he is looking for bipartisan support for health-care reform. On Monday, he released his eleven-page blueprint for reform that is based, for the most part, ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 24, 2010
Commentary
What Are Republicans Talking about When Republicans Talk about ‘Buying Health Insurance Across State
The Republican health-reform bill (H.R. 4038 § 221) also retains this discriminatory tax-treatment, but contains 27 pages of legalese that purports to make it easier for Americans to buy health insurance across state lines. Unfortunately, it makes little sense once you get past the crowd-pleasing title. For example: “The primary ...
John R. Graham
February 23, 2010
Business & Economics
Uncertainty about government to blame for sluggish job growth
Dear Editor: The U.S. economy shed another 85,000 jobs in December, when most analysts had expected no change or even slight job creation. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for healthcare reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. Ironically, it is the federal government’s policy activism itself ...
Robert P. Murphy
February 23, 2010
Strickland Aims To Require Voter Approval Before Making Health Care Mandatory
KHTS Hometown Station, February 25, 2010 This morning State Senator Tony Strickland proposed Senate Constitutional Amendment 29, which if passed will require voter approval of any state or federal measure implementing a healthcare program that: Requires individuals to obtain health coverage; Requires individuals to guarantee issuance of health coverage; Creates ...
Health Care Summit: Pipes sees no lasting impact
Washington D.C. Examiner, February 25, 2010 To the surprise of virtually no one, President Obama’s health reform summit did little to change the course of the healthcare debate. Although the president claimed that he was interested in incorporating Republican ideas into his reform plan, he acknowledged that he didn’t know ...
It’s Summit Day in Washington
Of course, there will be no grand reopening, no joyful children, and no bands, just the same old Obamacare which is not something Americans would get to choose whether to buy so much as it would be forced down their throats by any means possible, including via budget reconciliation ...
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Medical malpractice back on the table?
A spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association, Darren McKinney, suggested that those estimates are too low and pointed to other studies that have found more significant potential for savings. Lawrence McQuillan of the Pacific Research Institute, for example, has suggested that defensive medicine costs $191 billion a year, which ...
Milwaukee School Choice Program Sets Example for California, Nation
Low-income Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend independent schools have a graduation rate 18 percent higher than students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), according to Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008, a new report by John Robert Warren of the University of Minnesota. California would ...
Obama’s Summit Challenge
The discussion will focus around four main themes: controlling costs, insurance reforms, reducing the deficit, and increasing coverage. The president has stated many times that he is looking for bipartisan support for health-care reform. On Monday, he released his eleven-page blueprint for reform that is based, for the most part, ...
What Are Republicans Talking about When Republicans Talk about ‘Buying Health Insurance Across State
The Republican health-reform bill (H.R. 4038 § 221) also retains this discriminatory tax-treatment, but contains 27 pages of legalese that purports to make it easier for Americans to buy health insurance across state lines. Unfortunately, it makes little sense once you get past the crowd-pleasing title. For example: “The primary ...
Uncertainty about government to blame for sluggish job growth
Dear Editor: The U.S. economy shed another 85,000 jobs in December, when most analysts had expected no change or even slight job creation. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for healthcare reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. Ironically, it is the federal government’s policy activism itself ...