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Massachusetts “Universal” Health Care Spends $820 Million to Save $250 Million
Surely, even the New York Times can figure out that spending $820 million on the Bay State’s Commonwealth Care “universal” health-care plan, in order to save $250 million in uncompensated hospital care, is not a good trade-off. Not according to today’s article on the latest state to compel its residents ...
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Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
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Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
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Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
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Obama’s blurred health care vision
Recently, President Barack Obama signed a measure to throw another four million children on the mercy of government-rationed health care. At the bill-signing ceremony, he described the new law as a “down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.” But it’s less of a “down payment” than a ...
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State-run health care advocates try again
Orange County Register (CA), March 16, 2009 Porterville Recorder (Porterville, CA), March 16, 2009 Desert Dispatch (Barstow, CA), March 16, 2009 Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) March 16, 2009 Arnold rightly vetoed similar plan last year. This year, who knows? Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto is all that saved Californians from ...
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Crisis of the Overinsured: They Pay Up to Twice as Much for Hospital Services
In Michael E. Porter & Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg’s Redefining Health Care, they note that major health plans succeed by exploiting a competely artificial economy of scale. Because of the tax-code, American workers are compelled to accept health “benefits” from their employers instead of taking their health-care dollars to buy health ...
Business & Economics
FED FOCUS-Internal dissent over Fed action won’t halt policy
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – Some Federal Reserve insiders are breaking ranks in alarm over action by the U.S. central bank to tackle the credit crisis, but this unusually blunt display of dissent will not force a reversal in policy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made plain that he will ...
Business & Economics
U. S. moving in wrong direction with card check
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a likely hot button for the Obama administration, would fundamentally alter the balance of power in the U. S. labor market and impose enormous costs on workers. Ironically, as America moves to fundamentally change the way unions are certified, other countries, like Canada, are ...
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Don’t Blame Drugs for Health-Care Costs
In the opening pages of his recently released budget, Pres. Barack Obama describes the rising cost of health care as “one of the big drains on family budgets and on the performance of the economy as a whole.” Later in the budget, he suggests that America spends too much on ...
Massachusetts “Universal” Health Care Spends $820 Million to Save $250 Million
Surely, even the New York Times can figure out that spending $820 million on the Bay State’s Commonwealth Care “universal” health-care plan, in order to save $250 million in uncompensated hospital care, is not a good trade-off. Not according to today’s article on the latest state to compel its residents ...
Obama Should Look to Sweden for Education, Not Banks
Heritage Foundation “Foundry” Blog, March 16, 2009 A month ago, Obama explored the notion of nationalizing the banks under the Swedish model. Instead of the Swedish banking model, Obama should look at the school voucher program in Sweden for inspiration. The Pacific Research Institute recently had a video Op-Ed on ...
Math lesson
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA), March 15, 2009 Jack O’Connell, California’s superintendent of public instruction, recently claimed that Education Week’s latest Quality Counts report “ranks us a dismal 47th in the country” for school funding. That ranking needs some clarification, but the revenue that school districts actually receive would ...
Sweden’s Choice
Why the Obama administration should look to Europe for a school voucher program that works. Click here to see full screen of video.
Obama’s blurred health care vision
Recently, President Barack Obama signed a measure to throw another four million children on the mercy of government-rationed health care. At the bill-signing ceremony, he described the new law as a “down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.” But it’s less of a “down payment” than a ...
State-run health care advocates try again
Orange County Register (CA), March 16, 2009 Porterville Recorder (Porterville, CA), March 16, 2009 Desert Dispatch (Barstow, CA), March 16, 2009 Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) March 16, 2009 Arnold rightly vetoed similar plan last year. This year, who knows? Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto is all that saved Californians from ...
Crisis of the Overinsured: They Pay Up to Twice as Much for Hospital Services
In Michael E. Porter & Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg’s Redefining Health Care, they note that major health plans succeed by exploiting a competely artificial economy of scale. Because of the tax-code, American workers are compelled to accept health “benefits” from their employers instead of taking their health-care dollars to buy health ...
FED FOCUS-Internal dissent over Fed action won’t halt policy
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – Some Federal Reserve insiders are breaking ranks in alarm over action by the U.S. central bank to tackle the credit crisis, but this unusually blunt display of dissent will not force a reversal in policy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made plain that he will ...
U. S. moving in wrong direction with card check
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a likely hot button for the Obama administration, would fundamentally alter the balance of power in the U. S. labor market and impose enormous costs on workers. Ironically, as America moves to fundamentally change the way unions are certified, other countries, like Canada, are ...
Don’t Blame Drugs for Health-Care Costs
In the opening pages of his recently released budget, Pres. Barack Obama describes the rising cost of health care as “one of the big drains on family budgets and on the performance of the economy as a whole.” Later in the budget, he suggests that America spends too much on ...
