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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Great Moments in State Health DepartmentsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareIn Washington, "The state Health Care Authority plans to spend an additional $9 million on a computer project that the Legislature tried to cancel this year." So says The Olympian newspaper. Jason Mercier of the more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Tax Credits for Virginia EducationBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (k-12)Want to improve education? The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policysays adopt a tax credit program (PDF). The institute, which focuses on the commonwealth of Virginia, says that tax credits are better than vouchers. It ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Beware of "Infrastructure" ProjectsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Communication technologies, Information TechnologyOne of the latest ambitions of public sector managers is to become media moguls, in particular, Internet service providers. The Reason Foundation offers a review of the latest reviews of taxpayer dollars. ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Florida Plan to Be EnactedBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareIn Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist's health care access proposal was combined with an equally sweeping rival plan sponsored by the chairman of the House Health Care Appropriations Committee in a bill (S.B. 2534) that passed the legislature in the final hours of its 2008 session. The governor's ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008San Francisco Health Access Plan Shakedown?City's "Universal" Health Plan Means More Lawsuits, Not More Care By John R. GrahamFiled As: Health CareI have long alleged that the real (unstated) objective of San Francisco's Health Access Plan was to direct more tax money and power to the City's public health bureaucracy, and the experience so far does nothing to ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008One River, a $1,200 Difference in Insurance CostsBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareEnlighten New Jersey notices signs of sound policy in the Garden State: Assemblyman Jay Webber is pushing the New Jersey Health Care Choice Act. Webber hopes to ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Recisions and Red FlagsBy Merrill Matthews, Jr.Filed As: Health CareThe rescinding of health insurance policies has become a big issue in California, and may do so in other states.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008RomneyCare, One Year OnBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Health CareLooking back on the last year of RomneyCare in Massachusetts, the Wall Street Journal said in an editorial this morning:
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008U.S. Health Care: Free-Market or Not?By Grace-Marie TurnerFiled As: Health CareMany Europeans believe that health care in the U.S. is entirely delivered through the private sector in a largely unregulated free market. However, health care financing and delivery are in fact characterized by significant government involvement, both through large public sector programs that finance ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008Families USSR, Part IIBy John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareAnother batch of alarming press releases from Families USA is blitzing unsuspecting news rooms across America. Did you know that the Bush administration’s Medicaid cuts will cost 25,000 jobs in New York, 11,700 in North Carolina and 15,300 in Michigan? … 15,300? … To a man ... more »»
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