Press Release
Health Care
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Commentary
The Year In Commentary: Broker Commission Losses And The Future Of Healthcare
Through high-profile business acquisitions, growing regulatory activity and changing carrier relations, advisers had their hands full with business-altering activity in 2016. EBA’s most-viewed blogs of the year reflect this reality, covering the impact of the Department of Labor stepping up compliance measures and a range of ways the Affordable Care ...
Health Care
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
Business & Economics
California State Pension Board Overrides San Diego’s Entitlement Reforms
San Diego, California lawmakers are appealing a ruling by the state’s labor relations board that rolls back pension entitlement reforms approved by voters four years ago. The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in December 2015 Proposition B, a San Diego ballot question approved by 66 percent of city ...
Commentary
Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?
Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
Climate Change
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Press Release
Senator Barbara Boxer Calls PRI A “Sham” Group In Senate Floor Remarks
July 12, 2016, San Francisco – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today on the Senate floor denounced PRI as a “sham” group involved in undermining climate science. Senator Boxer said: “The Pacific Research Institute, which is a free-market think tank, published a number of anti-climate materials, including the Almanac of Environmental ...
California
Vergara Overturned, But Teacher Tenure Conversation Changed Forever
The same week a state appellate court overturned a lower court’s ruling that barred teacher tenure, four families in Minnesota filed a similar lawsuit questioning the fairness of tenure laws and last in-first out policies. “There’s no doubt though that [Vergara v. California] has already changed the conversation,” Andy Smarick, ...
Commentary
Book Review: Sally Pipes’ ‘The Way Out Of Obamacare’
Back in January of 2011, and over drinks with Sally Pipes and Rowena Itchon (respectively President and Vice President of the Pacific Research Institute), we got to talking about Pipes’ emigration from Canada to the United States when she was a young adult. Her mother’s parting plea to Pipes was ...
Commentary
New Study Gives NJ Public Schools Failing Grade
Many Garden State residents think that poor-performing schools are confined to low-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Yet according to a new study from the Pacific Research Institute, the data show that public schools in New Jersey’s affluent suburbs are also failing. The study compiled SAT scores from predominantly middle-class ...
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
The Year In Commentary: Broker Commission Losses And The Future Of Healthcare
Through high-profile business acquisitions, growing regulatory activity and changing carrier relations, advisers had their hands full with business-altering activity in 2016. EBA’s most-viewed blogs of the year reflect this reality, covering the impact of the Department of Labor stepping up compliance measures and a range of ways the Affordable Care ...
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
California State Pension Board Overrides San Diego’s Entitlement Reforms
San Diego, California lawmakers are appealing a ruling by the state’s labor relations board that rolls back pension entitlement reforms approved by voters four years ago. The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in December 2015 Proposition B, a San Diego ballot question approved by 66 percent of city ...
Death Of Obamacare, But How Do We Kill It?
Transcript of interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes and Stephen Sabludowsky, publisher of BayouBuzz.com Is Obamacare really broken or can it be fixed? If it is impossible to mend, will efforts to remove and replace it going to cause more problems than simply leaving it alone? One of the major issues ...
Obama’s Energy Plan Will Cost Poor Hundreds Of Billions To Stop 0.019 Degrees Of Global Warming
President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming will raise energy prices and drag many low-income Americans into “energy poverty,” according to a new study. The so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) would significantly increase the price of electricity in the U.S., and could cost the economy up to $479 billion ...
Senator Barbara Boxer Calls PRI A “Sham” Group In Senate Floor Remarks
July 12, 2016, San Francisco – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today on the Senate floor denounced PRI as a “sham” group involved in undermining climate science. Senator Boxer said: “The Pacific Research Institute, which is a free-market think tank, published a number of anti-climate materials, including the Almanac of Environmental ...
Vergara Overturned, But Teacher Tenure Conversation Changed Forever
The same week a state appellate court overturned a lower court’s ruling that barred teacher tenure, four families in Minnesota filed a similar lawsuit questioning the fairness of tenure laws and last in-first out policies. “There’s no doubt though that [Vergara v. California] has already changed the conversation,” Andy Smarick, ...
Book Review: Sally Pipes’ ‘The Way Out Of Obamacare’
Back in January of 2011, and over drinks with Sally Pipes and Rowena Itchon (respectively President and Vice President of the Pacific Research Institute), we got to talking about Pipes’ emigration from Canada to the United States when she was a young adult. Her mother’s parting plea to Pipes was ...
New Study Gives NJ Public Schools Failing Grade
Many Garden State residents think that poor-performing schools are confined to low-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Yet according to a new study from the Pacific Research Institute, the data show that public schools in New Jersey’s affluent suburbs are also failing. The study compiled SAT scores from predominantly middle-class ...
