Via the Iowa Policy Project: The steady ascent of health care costs, the erosion of job-based health insurance, and the growing ranks of the uninsured and underinsured have conjured up a wide array of products promising health savings or security. These include various “consumer” (nongroup) coverage options, including health savings plans and limited, high-deductible or catastrophic insurance. And […]
Let’s not undo 50 years of progress on racial equality
December 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
From the Everett Herald: This week is the start of a five-year period of commemoration, celebration, consideration and contrition. It was on Dec. 20, 1860 that South Carolina seceded from the Union. On Monday, in Charleston, the people nostalgic for the confederacy held a “secession ball.” Let’s be clear: The reason for secession was to […]
Ignoring the elephant in the Rotunda: State services suffer while tax breaks go unexamined
December 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
Governor Gregoire “hates” her 2011-2013 budget proposal, and it’s no wonder: it cuts $4.6 billion by, among other things, eliminating funding for class size reductions, ending the state’s Basic Health Plan (BHP), ending assistance to the disabled and closing state parks. But not to worry: tax breaks for nose jobs and airline fuel are still […]
