April, 2012 - Independence Institute

Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Computer problems, will progress even if ObamaCare overturned?0
- April 24, 2012
The Urban Institute says that the biggest challenge for CO’s exchange that it’s “starting with a flawed foundation, a legacy computer system – CBMS Colorado Benefits Management System – that is inflexible and difficult to modify.” Continue reading →
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Electric Cars Will Save Us — NOT!0
- April 24, 2012
Last week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a report that found–surprise, surprise–electric cars aren’t all that green (at least from a climate view) if the electricity used to recharge the cars comes from burning fossil fuels. Yet, in a Colbert-like manner, a colleague of one of the report’s authors asks in a blog post […]
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Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem 0
- April 23, 2012
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading →
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Transportation Bill Going to Conference Committee 0
- April 23, 2012
The House and Senate plan to hold conference committee negotiations over the transportation reauthorization bill. Early this year, the House Transportation Committee had approved the most fiscally conservative reauthorization bill considered by congress since 1991, if not since 1982. Yet the bill never reached the floor of the House due to opposition from fiscal conservatives […]
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The Constitution’s officers 0
- April 21, 2012
Proceeding on the very reasonable theory that the Founders knew what they were doing . . . Seth Barrett Tillman has spent considerable effort reconstructing the meanings of different office/officer phrases.
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Innovative (Meaning Insane) Land-Use Policy 0
- April 20, 2012
The Belgian Port of Antwerp needed to expand. But Belgium has a policy that any greenfield development must be offset by set-asides of already developed land. So the residents of an entire town were forcibly evicted and their town declared a “new nature preserve.” The buildings in the town were not leveled, and instead planners […]
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