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Friday, September 5, 2008What To Do About WaterBy John LaPlanteFiled As: EnvironmentThe Georgia Public Policy Foundation has just released its latest chapter of Agenda 2009, a guide to public issues facing the state. This chapter has to do with the water supply (PDF). Your state may not be suffering from drought to the same ... more »»
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Friday, September 5, 2008AARP Peddles Medical Bankruptcy Myth to New ExtremesBy Peter NelsonFiled As: Health CareLast night, as I watched the Republican National Convention on MSNBC, I about fell out of my chair when I saw an ad by AARP that claimed that "1.85 million Americans go bankrupt ... more »»
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Friday, September 5, 2008Palin vs. CON in AlaskaBy Joseph D. ColettiFiled As: Health CareA Washington Post story examines Gov. Palin's efforts to end Certificate of Need (CON) laws in Alaska. Nice to know a governor somewhere gets it.
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Friday, September 5, 2008McCain and Obama on Health CareBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareWhile health care policy won't getthe level ofmedia coverage as Sarah Palin's teenage daughter or Barack Obama's crazy pastor, some people might be interested in looking at the candidates proposals on that. The NCPA has put together a brief analysis of both the McCain plan and the Obama ... more »»
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Friday, September 5, 2008Don't LaughDoes a law pass the silly test? By John LaPlanteFiled As: Employment, GeneralGov. Mark Sanford (R-South Carolina) has proposed a new test for whether or not "there ought to be a law." From the state's largest newspaper:
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Thursday, September 4, 2008More Health Care Regulation Proposed for OhioBy Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareA task force convened by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland recently recommended that the state enact a wide variety of new regulations on health care in the state. In a piece put out by the Buckeye Institute this week, I explain why less ... more »»
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Thursday, September 4, 2008Medi-Cal's Fee Cutbacks are the Symptom; Medi-Cal is the DiseaseHealth Care Providers' Dependence on Government is an Unhealthy Addiction By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareLast week, I wrote about the malformation of health care financing that allows a federal judge to roll back Medi-Cal (Medicaid) fee reductions, which the governor and legislature had agreed to in order to buy some breathing room ... more »»
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Thursday, September 4, 2008Floridians Say "Let's Drill"By John LaPlanteFiled As: EnvironmentGood news for motorists--or for that matter, anyone who lives in the modern economy. A new public opinion poll says that a majority in Florida want to ... more »»
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Thursday, September 4, 2008Kentucky Ed Reforms Fail to Help Blacks Prepare for CollegeOnly 3 of 100 who take ACT are college-ready By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)What has Kentucky to show for its last decade of ramping up school spending and fiddling with its school systems? For one thing, an approach that fails to prepare black students for college. The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions says "more »»
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Thursday, September 4, 2008Latest Transparency Idea: Tax RatesBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Budget and TaxYou know that between sales taxes, property taxes, income taxes and other taxes, you pay a lot of money in taxes. But how much? The Washington Policy Center has called for "an online searchable database of all tax ... more »»
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