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Wednesday, April 16, 2008Use of Consumer-Driven Care UpBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareGroups that favor ever more government regulation of health care or even a complete government takeover of health care criticize the model of consumer-driven health care, and the public has picked up some of that criticism. The National Center for Policy Analysis looks at a recent public opinion ... more »»
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008SCHIP CrowdoutFiled As: Health CarePeter R. Orszag of the Congressional Budget Office recently testified on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on its impact on the number of uninsured low-income children and the extent to which it displaces private coverage. (more »»
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008Mandated Hospital Stays Offer Greater Costs, Few BenefitsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareHere's another chapter in the book that might be called "regulations increase costs with few benefits." During the 1990s one topic of outrage was "drive-through deliveries." My own state representative at the time--an otherwise "pro-business" Republican--carried ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008Cannon in Health Care DebateBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareMichael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, debated Ted Marmor of Yale University at an event Washington and Lee University in March. The topic is health care. Click on the link and you can hear an ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008CMS Incentivizing Electronic Health RecordsMaryland MDs among the recipients By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health Care, Information TechnologyThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is using incentives to try and get more doctors to use electronic health records:
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008Sending Tax Dollars Where they Do GoodPA Tax Credit Program for Education By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)Need some cheering up on this tax day? Consider the April newsletter from the REACH Foundation of Pennsylvania. REACH is an advocate of the state's ETIC, or Educational Improvement Tax Credit, which gives businesses more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008It's Tax Day. Woo. Hoo.Filed As: Budget and TaxIt's the most wonderful time of the year ... for tax collectors, that is. The Tax Foundation tells us that Tax Freedom Day won't come for another week. Meanwhile, Dave Barry offers a partial explanation for it all: "the Catfish ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008When an Individual Mandate Doesn't Mandate MuchBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareThe risks associated with individual mandates suggest that they are no panacea, Sherry A. Glied of Columbia University writes in the New England Journal of Medicine. One important concern, says Dr. Glied, is that the government will provide insufficient funds for the subsidies intended to ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008When Environmental Regulations Harm the EnvironmentBy John LaPlanteFiled As: EnvironmentThe Grassroot Institute of Hawaii reminds us that regulations meant to protect the environment can have the opposite effect.
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Monday, April 14, 2008When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough ... AdvertiseBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)The market-based approach to school reform says that competition for student enrollment will make schools find ways to improve. That sounds good. Schools work hard, children learn more, we all benefit. Right? Some schools do react to competition, but not necessarily by getting better. The ... more »»
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