Why Obamacares Health Care Cost Controls Won’t Work
At Reason.com, Peter Suderman reviews “Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.” Continue reading
The Stupidity Cliff
A common saying (sometimes attributed to Samuel Francis, but I first heard it before he is supposed to have said it) inside the DC Beltway, at least among fiscal conservatives, is that America has two political parties: the Evil Party and the Stupid Party. It appears to the Antiplanner that the Stupid Party has once […]
Back On Line
It took several days to transfer all the files, but the Antiplanner has a new web host and it seems to be working fine. I lost the last post and I think some of the comments on the next-to-last post, but I’ll live with that rather than try to recover them. I’ll be playing with […]
Ed Reform Super Bowl Would Have Been Nice, But Florida Gets Tony Bennett
Really quick for a Friday, the good news for the education reform movement this week is that “Indiana’s loss turned out to be Florida’s gain.” What am I talking about? The sad news that the Hoosier State’s commissioner of education Tony Bennett lost his re-election bid is quelled by the fact he agreed to take […]
Eddie Picks Up Slack on Media Misses, Including Teacher Pension Costs
I love lists, I love education, and I love to tell people about things. So it should be no surprise that my attention was caught by yesterday’s news release from Stanford: “Hoover Institution Education Experts Identify News Media Hits and Misses in 2012 Education Coverage.” The Koret Task Force on Education named five stories that […]
Defeating the “social justice” argument for socialized medicine
An appeal to “social justice” is popular defense of the so-called welfare state, which should really be called the dependency state. Philosopher Matt Zwolinski discusses and refutes this notion: Continue reading
Are Colo. School Districts Really Doing Better on New Global Report Card?
When confronted with the question of how well our schools are doing, too often we lack the full context needed to compare and understand what knowledge and skills students are acquiring to be strong citizens, competent workers, and trailblazing entrepreneurs for the next generation. Last year I told you about the Global Report Card, which […]
Do States Have a Right to Secede?
The news that thousands of people have signed a petition for their own states to secede from the union has raised this issue once again. We’ll leave to another time the suspicion-inducing question of why so much attention is focused on the most extreme remedy for federal overreaching when the Framers’ own perfectly constitutional remedy […]
ObamaCare: 21 States Reject Insurance Exchanges Over Cost, Rules
In “ObamaCare: 21 States Reject Exchanges On Cost, Rules,” David Hogberg at Investors Business Daily writes: The exchanges are where consumers without employer-based coverage will shop for insurance under ObamaCare and receive a tax credit toward its purchase if they … Continue reading
Colorado authorities forbid insurers from increasing rates. OK, now the dark side.
Colorado government’s rate review authority has damaging results. Continue reading
Colo. Capitol Room Packed to Talk Student Backpack Funding
On Thursday, December 6, a panel event co-sponsored by the Independence Institute packed a State Capitol committee room with 85 people to advance the discussion about how Colorado can embrace and implement backpack funding in future K-12 policy changes. Addressing an audience of educators, policymakers, and other citizens, four panelists shared some “outside-the-box” ideas on […]
Event Video: Colorado Financing Student Success Panel
A lot of interest has been generated in rewriting Colorado’s School Finance Act. How can we ensure funds follow students directly to the schools and courses of their choice? In this 90-minute video, think outside the box with the panelists at the “Financing Student Success” event at the Colorado State Capitol on December 6, 2012. […]
