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Let seniors control Medicare’s exploding expenses
This year, Medicare will begin paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes. If trends continue, the so-called trust fund will bust by 2019. This is all according to the Medicare Board of Trustees, who recently warned that the “projected long run program costs are not sustainable ...
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Massachusetts Health Reform: More Money, Please
…..but it’s a pretty good bet. One can never really be sure one’s right on public policy until the New York Times weighs in on the issue. And so it has, giving the thumbs up to Massachusetts’ two-year old health reform, which largely consisted of ordering its residents to buy ...
Business & Economics
Intel punished for being too competitive
European authorities recently stormed Intel’s offices in a surprise early morning raid. The “raids should come as good news to consumers across Europe,” exclaimed Thomas McCoy, a spokesperson for rival microchip-maker Advanced Micro Devices. What crime did the world’s dominant computer chip manufacturer commit to warrant such heavy-handed tactics? According ...
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Intelligence Squared U.S. Moves to Rockefeller University to Accommodate Sold Out Audiences
Marketwire, June 16, 2008 NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – June 16, 2008) – Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced that its third year of sold out public debates will move to Rockefeller University’s Caspary Auditorium beginning with the fall season in September ...
Business & Economics
The ball’s in Crist’s court
Governor has opportunity to remake Florida’s judiciary Charlie Crist will pick four new justices to serve on Florida’s highest court. Two justices have announced their plans to resign, and two are scheduled to retire. This presents the governor with the opportunities to fill four vacancies on the Florida Supreme Court. ...
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Families USA’s “Failing Grades” Gets A Failing Grade
Families USA has found itself a great line of business: make up a quick and easy number to demonstrate how awful private health care is, and then replicate the made-up number for each state. We’ve already learned that 3,100 Californians supposedly die every year because of uninsurance; and that Medicaid ...
Business & Economics
Intel Antitrust: Trouble for All Tech Companies
The United States Federal Trade Commission recently began a formal antitrust investigation into Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) business practices. This action is not simply a problem for Intel, but should serve as a wake-up call for the entire technology industry and anyone who values innovation. Some of the drivers behind the ...
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Reshuffling is not reform
Arizona Capital Times, June 13, 2008 This November, Arizona voters will decide whether 76 school districts should be combined into 27 larger, unified districts. Prompting the ballot initiative is the fact that fewer than six cents of every education dollar ever reaches the classroom. But don’t bank on statewide unification ...
Business & Economics
Why Rent Control Is Bad for California
Proposition 98, the eminent domain measure that also would have phased out rent control, failed to pass on the June 3 ballot. That means rent control will continue to hurt both landlords and tenants in California because rent control laws restrict what owners can do with their property. Suppose the ...
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Will the University of California take over “Killer King”?
Finally, California’s mainstream media has run a story that allows me to address two of my favorite bugbears: Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital, and San Francisco’s Health Access Plan! Apparently, Gov. Schwarzenegger and other politicians are quarterbacking an effort for the University of California medical system to take ...
Let seniors control Medicare’s exploding expenses
This year, Medicare will begin paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes. If trends continue, the so-called trust fund will bust by 2019. This is all according to the Medicare Board of Trustees, who recently warned that the “projected long run program costs are not sustainable ...
Massachusetts Health Reform: More Money, Please
…..but it’s a pretty good bet. One can never really be sure one’s right on public policy until the New York Times weighs in on the issue. And so it has, giving the thumbs up to Massachusetts’ two-year old health reform, which largely consisted of ordering its residents to buy ...
Intel punished for being too competitive
European authorities recently stormed Intel’s offices in a surprise early morning raid. The “raids should come as good news to consumers across Europe,” exclaimed Thomas McCoy, a spokesperson for rival microchip-maker Advanced Micro Devices. What crime did the world’s dominant computer chip manufacturer commit to warrant such heavy-handed tactics? According ...
Intelligence Squared U.S. Moves to Rockefeller University to Accommodate Sold Out Audiences
Marketwire, June 16, 2008 NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – June 16, 2008) – Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced that its third year of sold out public debates will move to Rockefeller University’s Caspary Auditorium beginning with the fall season in September ...
The ball’s in Crist’s court
Governor has opportunity to remake Florida’s judiciary Charlie Crist will pick four new justices to serve on Florida’s highest court. Two justices have announced their plans to resign, and two are scheduled to retire. This presents the governor with the opportunities to fill four vacancies on the Florida Supreme Court. ...
Families USA’s “Failing Grades” Gets A Failing Grade
Families USA has found itself a great line of business: make up a quick and easy number to demonstrate how awful private health care is, and then replicate the made-up number for each state. We’ve already learned that 3,100 Californians supposedly die every year because of uninsurance; and that Medicaid ...
Intel Antitrust: Trouble for All Tech Companies
The United States Federal Trade Commission recently began a formal antitrust investigation into Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) business practices. This action is not simply a problem for Intel, but should serve as a wake-up call for the entire technology industry and anyone who values innovation. Some of the drivers behind the ...
Reshuffling is not reform
Arizona Capital Times, June 13, 2008 This November, Arizona voters will decide whether 76 school districts should be combined into 27 larger, unified districts. Prompting the ballot initiative is the fact that fewer than six cents of every education dollar ever reaches the classroom. But don’t bank on statewide unification ...
Why Rent Control Is Bad for California
Proposition 98, the eminent domain measure that also would have phased out rent control, failed to pass on the June 3 ballot. That means rent control will continue to hurt both landlords and tenants in California because rent control laws restrict what owners can do with their property. Suppose the ...
Will the University of California take over “Killer King”?
Finally, California’s mainstream media has run a story that allows me to address two of my favorite bugbears: Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital, and San Francisco’s Health Access Plan! Apparently, Gov. Schwarzenegger and other politicians are quarterbacking an effort for the University of California medical system to take ...
