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State energy mandates impose a more than $2,000 burden on every Californian
Lessons From California: Electric Vehicle Mandate Is Costly, Unrealistic
New automobile emission limits announced by the Biden Administration will force a massive increase in U.S. electric vehicle (EV) sales that, by 2032, will require at least two out of every three cars sold in the U.S. to be electric vehicles. This mandate is another instance of the Biden Administration ...
Business & Economics
New court ruling brings hope for gig workers stymied by AB5
California Assembly Bill 5, which should have been officially named state government’s War on Independent Contractors, recently took a well-deserved, though not full, thrashing in court. It’s a favorable ruling for workers who prefer independence over the structure of hired employment. Passed and signed in 2019, AB5 virtually outlawed gig ...
California
Based on Past Results, Newsom’s Latest Homeless Plan Likely Won’t Work
By Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden Gov. Gavin Newsom kicked off his latest State of the State tour with a focus on homelessness. We wish his upbeat attitude inspired us, but it’s hard to have faith. In 2004, as mayor of San Francisco, he promised that he would end the ...
Commentary
QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
Business & Economics
Federal Officials Must Steel Themselves Against Tariff Proposal
Stocking the pantry has become significantly more expensive over the past two years. The attempts by domestic steel manufacturers, such as Ohio manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs, to impose costly steel tariffs will only worsen this already difficult situation. Americans are already paying almost 15% more to purchase canned fruit and vegetables than last year. By ...
Commentary
State Public Option Reforms Reveal Folly of Gov’t Healthcare
Over the last few years, several states have tried their hand at creating a “public option” health insurance plan. Their experiences offer a cautionary tale to those pushing for similar reforms at the federal level — as well as to states considering public options of their own. In its purest form, the ...
Commentary
Don’t Want An Electric Car? Gavin Newsom Is Making Sure You Won’t Have A Choice
It’s become routine. A problem, either real or imagined, arises, and California policymakers rush in to fix it with their legislative repair kit. Yet their solutions make the problem worse, create new issues, or both. That California has painfully high retail gasoline prices is not in dispute. They are in ...
Commentary
Read Why We Can't Afford Single-Payer
No ‘California Dreamin’ for Single Payer Healthcare
California is dreaming about a government takeover of health insurance once again. Earlier this month, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced SB 770. The bill would seek a federal waiver to allow the state to use federal funds earmarked for Medicare and Medicaid to create a state-run health insurance system that ...
Commentary
Read about the middlemen in healthcare
Pharmacy benefit managers are picking patients’ pockets
Pharmacy benefit managers are in the congressional hot seat. Last Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing examining the middlemen’s impact on patients. Earlier in March, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability launched an investigation into PBM tactics that are “harming patient care and increasing costs for consumers.” ...
California
A Delinquent Tenant’s Paradise
Los Angeles recently changed its municipal code to give tenants “permanent protections against eviction and burdensome rent increases.” L.A. County has extended its eviction moratorium, originally scheduled to be lifted on January 31, through the end of March. And a few hundred miles north, California state lawmakers are considering a bill ...
State energy mandates impose a more than $2,000 burden on every Californian
Lessons From California: Electric Vehicle Mandate Is Costly, Unrealistic
New automobile emission limits announced by the Biden Administration will force a massive increase in U.S. electric vehicle (EV) sales that, by 2032, will require at least two out of every three cars sold in the U.S. to be electric vehicles. This mandate is another instance of the Biden Administration ...
New court ruling brings hope for gig workers stymied by AB5
California Assembly Bill 5, which should have been officially named state government’s War on Independent Contractors, recently took a well-deserved, though not full, thrashing in court. It’s a favorable ruling for workers who prefer independence over the structure of hired employment. Passed and signed in 2019, AB5 virtually outlawed gig ...
Based on Past Results, Newsom’s Latest Homeless Plan Likely Won’t Work
By Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden Gov. Gavin Newsom kicked off his latest State of the State tour with a focus on homelessness. We wish his upbeat attitude inspired us, but it’s hard to have faith. In 2004, as mayor of San Francisco, he promised that he would end the ...
QALYs block life-saving drugs
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
How do you measure a year? Your desk calendar might suggest months or days. The musical “Rent” famously offered 525,600 minutes and a number of other more creative metrics. Ask a progressive health policy expert, though, and they may give you the most shocking option of all. For years, progressives ...
Federal Officials Must Steel Themselves Against Tariff Proposal
Stocking the pantry has become significantly more expensive over the past two years. The attempts by domestic steel manufacturers, such as Ohio manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs, to impose costly steel tariffs will only worsen this already difficult situation. Americans are already paying almost 15% more to purchase canned fruit and vegetables than last year. By ...
State Public Option Reforms Reveal Folly of Gov’t Healthcare
Over the last few years, several states have tried their hand at creating a “public option” health insurance plan. Their experiences offer a cautionary tale to those pushing for similar reforms at the federal level — as well as to states considering public options of their own. In its purest form, the ...
Don’t Want An Electric Car? Gavin Newsom Is Making Sure You Won’t Have A Choice
It’s become routine. A problem, either real or imagined, arises, and California policymakers rush in to fix it with their legislative repair kit. Yet their solutions make the problem worse, create new issues, or both. That California has painfully high retail gasoline prices is not in dispute. They are in ...
Read Why We Can't Afford Single-Payer
No ‘California Dreamin’ for Single Payer Healthcare
California is dreaming about a government takeover of health insurance once again. Earlier this month, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced SB 770. The bill would seek a federal waiver to allow the state to use federal funds earmarked for Medicare and Medicaid to create a state-run health insurance system that ...
Read about the middlemen in healthcare
Pharmacy benefit managers are picking patients’ pockets
Pharmacy benefit managers are in the congressional hot seat. Last Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing examining the middlemen’s impact on patients. Earlier in March, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability launched an investigation into PBM tactics that are “harming patient care and increasing costs for consumers.” ...
A Delinquent Tenant’s Paradise
Los Angeles recently changed its municipal code to give tenants “permanent protections against eviction and burdensome rent increases.” L.A. County has extended its eviction moratorium, originally scheduled to be lifted on January 31, through the end of March. And a few hundred miles north, California state lawmakers are considering a bill ...
