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Study: Md. 31st for individual health care control
A new study designed to measure the degree of control Americans have over their own health care ranks Maryland 31st in the country. The U.S. Index of Health Ownership was released Thursday by the Pacific Research Institute, a private research and policy analysis group. Study author John R. Graham, the ...
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Is There A “Cost Shift” from Cutting Medicaid?
One zombie that just will not die, no matter how many stakes are driven into it, is the argument that the health care “crisis” is driven by hordes of uninsured people who crowd the ERs for “uncompensated” care, shifting a so-called “hidden tax” onto people with health insurance. This is ...
Business & Economics
INSURANCE: Small business owners try to manage higher premiums.
Turns out, New York is really a red state. That’s according to the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that characterizes each state’s litigation climate by designating one of three colors to it — red, yellow or green. Red isn’t good. “New York’s liability climate ...
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Shill Here, Shill Now
The offshore drilling movement seems silly, but could it spark a smarter movement? “I taught in the second Earth Day,” Newt Gingrich recalled in Real Change, published in January, the most recent of his annual, not-quite-consistent handbooks for conservatives. As gas prices hovered around $3 per gallon, Gingrich told good ...
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U.S. Index of Health Ownership 2nd Edition Is Here
Alabama up, Utah down, New York still in the basement: Where’s your state? Pacific Research Instite has published the 2nd edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only ranking of health care in the states that uses criteria of individual choice. Americans lack the basic freedom to make ...
Business & Economics
Tort abuse is costing California billions of dollars
The number of California homes in foreclosure surged 327 percent in the first quarter of this year, to an average of more than 500 foreclosures per day. The state unemployment rate is at a nearly five-year high of 6.9 percent. And the budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year is ...
Business & Economics
Vive la Reagan Revolution
Dressed in jeans, a denim jacket, and cowboy boots, President Ronald Reagan emerged from his humble, hacienda-style adobe ranch house located high in the mountains of Santa Barbara, Calif. With his dog “Millie” by his side, the president walked to the leather covered patio table, sat down in a chair ...
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WSJ Examines Recent Ruling Strengthening Legal Job Protections For Women Seeking Fertility Treatment
Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined a recent ruling by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that could strengthen legal job protections for women undergoing fertility treatments. The ruling, the first of its kind at the federal appeals-court level, stated that women who need time ...
Business & Economics
The Internet – Should Feds Be Involved?
Net neutrality and regulating the internet. The Fairness Doctrine for bloggers. PRI’s Dr. Daniel Ballon discusses the implications of these issues on the Andrea Shea King Radio show. (Please wait for interview to load. Click on left arrow to start.)
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Expel ‘Promote Now, Pay Later’
Last month, Californians were stunned to learn that around one in four high school students drops out, almost twice as many as the state previously reported. In districts like Grant Joint Union High, more than one in three dropout. Yet even when students stay in school, the question is how ...
Study: Md. 31st for individual health care control
A new study designed to measure the degree of control Americans have over their own health care ranks Maryland 31st in the country. The U.S. Index of Health Ownership was released Thursday by the Pacific Research Institute, a private research and policy analysis group. Study author John R. Graham, the ...
Is There A “Cost Shift” from Cutting Medicaid?
One zombie that just will not die, no matter how many stakes are driven into it, is the argument that the health care “crisis” is driven by hordes of uninsured people who crowd the ERs for “uncompensated” care, shifting a so-called “hidden tax” onto people with health insurance. This is ...
INSURANCE: Small business owners try to manage higher premiums.
Turns out, New York is really a red state. That’s according to the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that characterizes each state’s litigation climate by designating one of three colors to it — red, yellow or green. Red isn’t good. “New York’s liability climate ...
Shill Here, Shill Now
The offshore drilling movement seems silly, but could it spark a smarter movement? “I taught in the second Earth Day,” Newt Gingrich recalled in Real Change, published in January, the most recent of his annual, not-quite-consistent handbooks for conservatives. As gas prices hovered around $3 per gallon, Gingrich told good ...
U.S. Index of Health Ownership 2nd Edition Is Here
Alabama up, Utah down, New York still in the basement: Where’s your state? Pacific Research Instite has published the 2nd edition of the U.S. Index of Health Ownership, the only ranking of health care in the states that uses criteria of individual choice. Americans lack the basic freedom to make ...
Tort abuse is costing California billions of dollars
The number of California homes in foreclosure surged 327 percent in the first quarter of this year, to an average of more than 500 foreclosures per day. The state unemployment rate is at a nearly five-year high of 6.9 percent. And the budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year is ...
Vive la Reagan Revolution
Dressed in jeans, a denim jacket, and cowboy boots, President Ronald Reagan emerged from his humble, hacienda-style adobe ranch house located high in the mountains of Santa Barbara, Calif. With his dog “Millie” by his side, the president walked to the leather covered patio table, sat down in a chair ...
WSJ Examines Recent Ruling Strengthening Legal Job Protections For Women Seeking Fertility Treatment
Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined a recent ruling by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that could strengthen legal job protections for women undergoing fertility treatments. The ruling, the first of its kind at the federal appeals-court level, stated that women who need time ...
The Internet – Should Feds Be Involved?
Net neutrality and regulating the internet. The Fairness Doctrine for bloggers. PRI’s Dr. Daniel Ballon discusses the implications of these issues on the Andrea Shea King Radio show. (Please wait for interview to load. Click on left arrow to start.)
Expel ‘Promote Now, Pay Later’
Last month, Californians were stunned to learn that around one in four high school students drops out, almost twice as many as the state previously reported. In districts like Grant Joint Union High, more than one in three dropout. Yet even when students stay in school, the question is how ...
