“Medical homes”: good idea, or politicized boondoggle?
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has written a nice critique of the so-called “medical homes” pushed by ObamaCare (HR 3590). A “medical home” sounds comforting, but if politicians are forcing you, or nudging you, into one with legislation, then you should be wary. A few excerpts from the article, Medical-Homes Model Pushed By Health […]
Honolulu’s Rail Plan
Yesterday, in response to the Antiplanner’s post about crony capitalism, Scrappy commented that Honolulu needs rail transit to “reduce our carbon footprint, save energy and get us off the maddening addiction to cars.” He added that, “the environmental community in Honolulu is strongly behind rail.” I appreciate Scrappy’s comment and don’t want to discourage him […]
More GOOD News on the School Choice Front:Louisiana Adopts Special Needs Voucher
GOOD news! There are now 20 private school choice programs. Special needs children in Louisiana will have more educational choice! Read the news release from our friends at the American Federation for Children:
Children Win as Louisiana Enacts Special …
The AMA & biased legislation vs. health care mutual aid societies
Mary Ruwart nicely summarizes how the American Medical Association and legislation biased toward insurance companies crowded out health care mutual aid societies. Today their equivalents are health care cooperatives. The following is from The Liberator Online, June 24, 2010:
QUESTION: I think part of the problem with today’s health care system is the over-reliance on […]
Hawaii – Land of Crony Capitalism
Wikipedia defines crony capitalism as an “allegedly capitalist economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between businesspeople and government officials.” Crony capitalism has sadly played an important role in state and, especially, local government for just about ever. But Hawaii suffers from a particularly strong case. Hawaii’s history of crony capitalism dates […]
So What Exactly Will This Amendment Do?
We hear the questions everyday from folks who want to help us collect signatures or who support what we’re doing: what exactly will this initiative do? How in the world can we stop the federal government from imposing Obama Care on us? How many signatures do you guys need? How can I help? Those are […]
Independence Institute | Health Care Video Series Surpasses 240K Views
We’ve been enjoying some incredible – yet under the radar – video successes here at the Independence Institute. About a year ago, we launched a series of health care videos, starting with this laugh out loud doozy featuring one of my main minions Justin Longo. The video took off instantly clocking thousands of views within […]
LaHood Acts Like a Hood — Again
Not content to just threaten any airlines that might oppose heavy subsidies to high-speed rail aimed at putting their unsubsidized operations out of business, Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood is now threatening railroads that are supposedly dragging their wheels in response to federal plans to run moderate-speed (up to 110 mph) trains on their freight […]
AG Suthers Provides Update on School Funding Court Case
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers gives an update on the defense in Lobato v State – a case being funded by taxpayers on both sides to argue whether the courts should make taxpayers provide more funding for K-12 education. Last fall the state supreme court ruled 4-3 that judges have the power to change school funding policies. Seeking to demonstrate that Colorado schools are reasonably and adequately funded, the AG’s office is collecting extensive financial records from every school district in the state.
The Antiplanner’s Library: Visiting Paradise
One of the Antiplanner’s co-speakers during a couple of events in Honolulu is David Callies, a law professor and author of two books on Hawaii land-use law: Regulating Paradise and Preserving Paradise. Hawaii passed the first statewide growth-management law in 1961, and still has about the strictest land-use laws in the nation. Not coincidentally, it […]
Family Research Council vs. the Second Amendment
Originally published on Volokh.com A new piece from the Family Research Council blasts Grover Norquist (President of Americans for Tax Reform; Member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association) for joining the board of GOProud, an organization of conservative gay Republicans. Among the alleged sins on the GOProud agenda : Equalize “concealed carry […]
Obama: government can’t & shouldn’t “run health care.” Whatever
Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby points out an what President Obama said in a 2009 address:
I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.
Yet, at a 2008 town hall meeting in New Mexico, Senator Obama said:
If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.
A […]
