Commentary
Business & Economics
Legislature slow to pass bills in 2008 session Rural Action Commission online
The 2008 Legislature may be remembered as the least productive in memory, which around the Capitol means the memory of Senate Secretary McDowell Lee who has been in or around the Legislature for nearly 60 years. The House and Senate have passed only 12 bills in the first 13 working ...
Business & Economics
Essay 4: The U.S. Digital Divide Hysteria
Who can keep up with this new media?, March 14, 2008 The idea of the digital divide in the U.S., like everything technology-related, has already become outdated. There continues to be a misguided belief that in the U.S. there is a huge gap between techno-haves and techno-have-nots. While this may ...
Commentary
Convenient Clinics: Becoming Part of the Problem?
I hate to write this, but there are increasing signs that one of the most significant disruptive forces in American health care today is slowly being sucked into the same old way of doing business. I speak of the convenient clinics. I’m not saying the news is all bad. The ...
Business & Economics
2008 State Rankings: Sinners and Saints Among Tort Systems
Insurance Journal (San Diego, CA), March 14, 2008 Florida ranks the worst in terms of tort costs and litigation risks, while North Dakota ranks the best. In a separate ranking, Colorado has the best tort laws on its books, while Rhode Island has the worst. The free-market think tank Pacific ...
Business & Economics
California a “sinner” on lawsuits
California is listed as a “sinner” when it comes to the risk and cost of liability lawsuits, according to a new state-by-state study by the conservative, San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute. The state is ranked 34th among the 50 states in a complex system developed by PRI that considers laws ...
California
Out of the Wreckage of ABX1 1, Consumer Watchdog Plans Another Shake-Down
You would think that anyone seriously wanting to improve health care in America would want to reduce, not increase the administrative, bureaucratic burden of over regulation, in order to ensure more dollars go to patient care. But if you profit from the regulatory burden, you’d hardly make that a serious ...
Charter Schools
New Speaker Must Support Charter School Success
Sacramento Union, March 14, 2008 The California Charter Schools Association held its 15th Annual Meeting in Sacramento in early March. More than 2,000 charter teachers, principals and leaders from across California and the country attended. The conference came on the heels of the election of Assemblywoman Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, ...
Commentary
Twilight of the Medieval Guilds? Scope of Practice Laws Examined
The California HealthCare Foundation, hardly a bunch of right-wing fanatics like us at PRI, has published a sober, but assertive, analysis of how California regulates the scope of practice of health professionals, along with recommendations for improvement. It’s written by scholars at the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for ...
Business & Economics
Study: Pa.’s Tort System Nearly The Worst
A policy institute yesterday released a report that ranked Pennsylvania’s legal climate the sixth worst in the nation in terms of both state policy and cost of litigation. The San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute compared the scope and impact of litigiousness on each state and determined that, judging by the ...
Business & Economics
Group ranks Nevada 36th in tort reform
A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that supports limiting jury awards against corporations has ranked Nevada near the bottom in the nation for tort reforms. The Pacific Research Institute ranked Nevada as 36th in the nation for tort costs and litigation risks in its 2008 state-by-state study of tort reform. North ...
Legislature slow to pass bills in 2008 session Rural Action Commission online
The 2008 Legislature may be remembered as the least productive in memory, which around the Capitol means the memory of Senate Secretary McDowell Lee who has been in or around the Legislature for nearly 60 years. The House and Senate have passed only 12 bills in the first 13 working ...
Essay 4: The U.S. Digital Divide Hysteria
Who can keep up with this new media?, March 14, 2008 The idea of the digital divide in the U.S., like everything technology-related, has already become outdated. There continues to be a misguided belief that in the U.S. there is a huge gap between techno-haves and techno-have-nots. While this may ...
Convenient Clinics: Becoming Part of the Problem?
I hate to write this, but there are increasing signs that one of the most significant disruptive forces in American health care today is slowly being sucked into the same old way of doing business. I speak of the convenient clinics. I’m not saying the news is all bad. The ...
2008 State Rankings: Sinners and Saints Among Tort Systems
Insurance Journal (San Diego, CA), March 14, 2008 Florida ranks the worst in terms of tort costs and litigation risks, while North Dakota ranks the best. In a separate ranking, Colorado has the best tort laws on its books, while Rhode Island has the worst. The free-market think tank Pacific ...
California a “sinner” on lawsuits
California is listed as a “sinner” when it comes to the risk and cost of liability lawsuits, according to a new state-by-state study by the conservative, San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute. The state is ranked 34th among the 50 states in a complex system developed by PRI that considers laws ...
Out of the Wreckage of ABX1 1, Consumer Watchdog Plans Another Shake-Down
You would think that anyone seriously wanting to improve health care in America would want to reduce, not increase the administrative, bureaucratic burden of over regulation, in order to ensure more dollars go to patient care. But if you profit from the regulatory burden, you’d hardly make that a serious ...
New Speaker Must Support Charter School Success
Sacramento Union, March 14, 2008 The California Charter Schools Association held its 15th Annual Meeting in Sacramento in early March. More than 2,000 charter teachers, principals and leaders from across California and the country attended. The conference came on the heels of the election of Assemblywoman Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, ...
Twilight of the Medieval Guilds? Scope of Practice Laws Examined
The California HealthCare Foundation, hardly a bunch of right-wing fanatics like us at PRI, has published a sober, but assertive, analysis of how California regulates the scope of practice of health professionals, along with recommendations for improvement. It’s written by scholars at the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for ...
Study: Pa.’s Tort System Nearly The Worst
A policy institute yesterday released a report that ranked Pennsylvania’s legal climate the sixth worst in the nation in terms of both state policy and cost of litigation. The San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute compared the scope and impact of litigiousness on each state and determined that, judging by the ...
Group ranks Nevada 36th in tort reform
A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that supports limiting jury awards against corporations has ranked Nevada near the bottom in the nation for tort reforms. The Pacific Research Institute ranked Nevada as 36th in the nation for tort costs and litigation risks in its 2008 state-by-state study of tort reform. North ...
