John LaPlante
Tuesday, October 16, 2007Move from SCHIP from Refundable Tax CreditsFiled As: Health CareWriting on his blog, John Goodman says that refundable tax credits for other insurance policies are preferable to SCHIP. (For the sake of the blog post he concedes the point of a societal interest in funding health insurance). A $1,000 ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007The Basics of SCHIP, Video StyleFiled As: Health CareNina Owcharenko explains the basic basics of SCHIP in a short video available through The Heritage Foundation web site. One bonus: it's not one of those low-production value items that you often see on YouTube.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007The False Hope of Evidence-Based MedicineFiled As: Health CareEvidence-based medicine is one current reform fad within health care policy. It sounds good. After all, who could be against using evidence in the practice of medicine? There's more to the story, of course, since EBM is, among other things, a code for the bureaucratic practice of medicine. And ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007Houston, We have CompetitionFiled As: Education (k-12)Who said "we fundamentally, as an organization, embrace choice?" The CEO of a company in a high-tech industry, where product cycles grow shorter with each year and innovation is the name of the game? Nope. The chief academic officer of the Houston school district. Jamie Story, education ... more »»
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007Free Minds. Free Markets. Free TV.Filed As: GeneralThe Reason Foundation has entered the new media age with Reason.TV. In Episode 1, Drew Carey takes on "Gridlock: Hell on Wheels," which finds "the most congested commute," which requires 90 minutes to go to 16 miles. The setting? LA, of course. Among my ... more »»
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Thursday, October 18, 2007US Department of Ed Survey Shows Value of School ChoiceTracking one student at a time Filed As: Education (k-12)That privately run schools outperform government-run schools is supported by economic theory as well as anecdotal data. The Milton & Rose Friedman Foundation add to the empirical research on the subject with their latest publication, Monopoly Versus Markets. The study uses the more »»
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007The Center-Left Argument Against SCHIP ExpansionFiled As: Health CareOpposition to SCHIP expansion isn't just for advocates of free markets and limits to government power. Amber Arellano, a center-left member of the Detroit News editorial board, offers a faint objection to SCHIP expansion in two recent blog entries. First, she points out that expanding ... more »»
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007The Year of Living ModestlyFiled As: Health CareAmbition abounds, but modest changes are more likely. That's one conclusion from a Kansas City Star article (registration required) on health care policy reform in Kansas:
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007Small Victories in OaklandFiled As: Education (k-12)Oakland, California has sometimes been cited as an example of successful school reform. But the Center for Education Reform says that you've got to look a little ... more »»
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Monday, October 15, 2007HSAs Can Save Taxpayers MoneyFiled As: Health CareMichael LaFaive, of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, says that Michigan's lawmakers could save taxpayers more than $194 million a year by moving 52,000 state employees in to HSA-matched insurance policies. Rather than tax itself ... more »»
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