Colorado Health Care Reform: Reincarnating Failed Policies
It’s back to the drawing board for certain Colorado health care reform advocates. Cambridge Health Alliance, a major Boston areas safety-net health care provider has just reported that the Massachusetts health care reform plan is saddling it with large losses.
The Massachusetts plan requires everyone to buy health insurance. The reform plans from Colorado’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform and Club 20 copy key elements of it. If everyone is insured, advocates say, safety-net providers will need far less support. Needless to say, Colorado hospitals and health plans eager to get paid have no qualms about lobbying lawmakers to make their fellow citizens pay for coverage designed by a government committee and legislators are happy to believe that less safety-net care translates into reduced state payments.
Universal Health Care: the Wrong Prescription
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of “universal health care” – from Hillary, Obama, to 2nd Congressional democratic candidate Jared Polis – don’t get this.
Channel 7 Report: Benigno Comments on Governor's Education Reform
March 20, 2008–Education Policy Center director Pam Benigno responded to yesterday’s unveiling of Gov. Bill Ritter’s Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids in an interviewed appearance on Denver’s Channel 7 News.
Stop RTD in its tracks – and fast
Colorado’s taxpayers are beginning to take note of a recent abuse of our Constitution: eminent domain law. Simply put, the Fifth Amendment gives our government the right to compensate private property owners if their land must be seized for a public works project.
Homeschooling Under Attack in California
For homeschoolers and other lovers of educational freedom, there’s an alarming story in today’s Los Angeles Times, which begins: “Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of fear through California’s home schooling families.”
