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Monday, April 14, 2008Medicaid or Privacy?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareThe Cato Institute is watching legislation in the U.S. Congress that would require states to verify assets held by Medicaid applicants, thus "exposing the personal information held by financial institutions to more »»
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Monday, April 14, 2008Double Your WaitBy Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMassachusetts' law requiring everyone to have health insurance is putting added pressure on primary care physicians and lengthening the wait for appointments--an unintended consequence of universal coverage, reports The more »»
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Monday, April 14, 2008Registration Now, Abolition Later?Filed As: Education (k-12)Writing for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Marc Holley notes a troubling development in Michigan: a bill in the legislature would require parents who homeschool their children to register with the state. Holley sees a camel's ... more »»
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Monday, April 14, 2008Florida Governor Touts Insurance PlanFiled As: Health CareGov. Charlie Crist is traveling Florida selling his proposal to, in the words of one press account, "use the state's bargaining clout to negotiate low-cost plans with insurers." Insurers ... more »»
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Monday, April 14, 2008Preempting the Local BureaucratsFiled As: Communication technologiesJust because a government is close at hand doesn't mean that it's any more friendly to the consumer than a more distant government, and sometimes the more distant government manages to do the right thing. The latest example comes from Wisconsin, where the state government has enacted cable ... more »»
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Sunday, April 13, 2008Raising Prices, Restricting Choice: Doing the Public's Business?Filed As: EmploymentDo government regulations protect the public? That assumption is getting a lot of play as people react to the problems caused by the subprime mess. States spend a lot of energy regulating occupations. The Institute for Justice (IJ) explains that there are two kinds of more »»
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Friday, April 11, 2008Treating Mortgage MadnessBy Kurt T. WeberFiled As: GeneralThe laws of perverse incentives and unintended consequences are alive and well in the mortgage muck being slung from Washington, DC. Have a couple minutes to educate yourself? Refer to a few quick blogs from The Heritage Foundation, under the apt heading, “more »»
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Friday, April 11, 2008Medicaid Exceeding Budget in OhioState still pressing an expansion By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareSometimes state fiscal irresponsibility is pretty glaring. Take the case of Ohio's Medicaid program as reported by the more »»
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Friday, April 11, 2008Making HSA Use More CumbersomeFiled As: Health CareAs we feared, the House Ways and Means Committee did indeed approve legislation on Wednesday that would require every expenditure from Health Savings Accounts to be approved, injecting new complexities, driving up costs, and discouraging HSA enrollment.
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Friday, April 11, 2008New Mexico Business Groups: "Raise Taxes for Existing Health Care Programs"By Paul GessingFiled As: Health CareI have a great deal of respect for people who own and operate businesses in New Mexico. This a big-government state and the culture is not friendly to entrepreneurs. That said, a recent story (subscription required) from the ... more »»
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