Health Insurance Exchanges: A Race To the Bottom
The problem is that the actual insurance that health plans offer may be fairly lousy — perhaps just a little better than the typical managed care plan offered under Medicaid. That’s because of the way these insurance products are going to be regulated, and the way they will be priced under the federal scheme.
Dougco Choice Ruling Harms Kids, But Fight Goes On
The Independence Institute, Colorado’s leading voice for free market policy, says today’s ruling to enjoin an innovative local school choice program represents a surprising setback, but not the final word on the subject. “While today’s ruling is unexpected and disappointing, the fight certainly isn’t over,” said Education Policy Center director Pam Benigno. “Students deserve real options that best suit their needs.”
U.S. Credit Rating: Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger
Attacking S&P for the U.S. credit downgrade is like criticizing your doctor for diagnosing your cancer.
Colorado and Indiana Families Both Waiting for Significant Choice Scholarship Rulings
You thought I was going crazy yesterday waiting for a ruling on the Douglas County Choice Scholarship injunction request? Another day, and it isn’t getting any better. We have been promised Judge Martinez will issue a ruling this week, so at the most I should only have another day or so to hold out.
But you […]
China Suspends New HSR
Railway Age reports that China’s Premier Wen Jiabao has suspended “approval of new railway projects” while it investigates the recent accident that killed at least 40 people. Jiabao also said that the country would “reduce the average speed of new high speed trains at their early stage of operation.” Another report indicates that the government […]
Waiting for Dougco Ruling: Read Horn, Piper Articles, and Pace to Hornpipe…
Here it is Wednesday afternoon, and I can’t stop pacing the floor — well, in between playing with my Legos, that is. Pacing, playing Legos. Pacing. Playing Legos. — Pacing — Playing Legos — Blogging!!!….
Why? you may ask. Because I’m impatiently waiting for a decision from Judge Martinez about the lawsuit trying to shut […]
"The Wind Power Paradox"
A recently released report titled “The Wind Power Paradox” from BENTEK Energy finds that wind energy is neither green nor cost effective. In a radio interview with Amy Oliver Cooke on News Talk 1310 KFKA (Part I and II), BENTEK president Porter Bennett* (a self-described “natural gas guy”) explained that the because the wind blows […]
California HSR Already Over Projected Costs
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has finally admitted that its insanely expensive rail project will be even more insanely expensive than its official projections. The most recent cost estimates for the “train to nowhere”–the first link of the project from north of Bakersfield to south of Merced–are 40 to 96 percent higher (depending on the […]
Government Price Controls Produce Cancer Drug Shortage – Who Would Have Guessed?
The federal government has created a cancer drug shortage. How? Because of what are essentially government prices controls on generic cancer drugs.
Renewable energy mandate unconstitutional
In part two of American Tradition Institute’s video series about its lawsuit against the state of Colorado Director of Environmental Law Center David Schnare explains how Colorado’s renewable energy mandate (30 percent by 2020) violates the commerce clause and therefore is unconstitutional.
Digging Up School Spending Figures in Colorado’s Ongoing Lobato Hearings
Welcome to Week 2 of 5 in Colorado’s ongoing school finance adequacy lawsuit, familiarly known as Lobato v State, or just the Lobato case. A report this morning from Ed News Colorado’s Todd Engdahl highlighted some of Monday’s key plaintiff testimony:
One of the main plaintiffs’ witnesses in the Lobato v. State school funding lawsuit testified […]
8/9/11
Newsletter August 9 2011
