SCHIP Myth Versus Reality – Lessons from TN
With all the pontificating in DC about how SCHIP must be expanded to reach uninsured children, the recent experience of Tennessee is enlightening. TN’s SCHIP program covers families up to […]
Read More →Innovative New Employer Health Plans
Recently the Wall Street Journal ran a story on how some companies are just giving employees a health insurance allowance (rather than a particular health plan) with which they can […]
Read More →Changes in Health Benefits – Sticks and Carrots Add Punch to Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans
MSNBC recently ran a story about an Indiana hospital system that will fine employees who make poor health choices (BMI over 30 will cost $10/week; smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure, and […]
Read More →California Teacher’s Unions support Charter School movement
NEW YORK TIMES By SAM DILLON Published: July 24, 2007 LOS ANGELES — Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla […]
Read More →Consolidation plan is poorly crafted draft
Seacoast Online By Jeffrey W. Pelletier July 29, 2007 12:59 PM Editor’s note: The writer is chairman of the Kittery School Committee. The state of Maine has given school districts […]
Read More →Comments on The State Government “Gravy Train”
Jason and I have received numerous comments on our report “The State Government ‘Gravy Train’” I recently received a very thoughtful email that I thought would be useful for me […]
Read More →Charter Schools outperforming traditional schools in New Orleans
In April, MHPC released a Maine View report outlining how the introduction of Charter Schools might be a way to improve school performance in Maine, which is one of only […]
Read More →Out-of-State Liberals Setting Up Shop in Maine
The Maine activities of the Proteus Fund, the Maine Blueprint Project, were leaked to the Portland Phoenix last year. Now, it appears that the former head of the Maine Democratic […]
Read More →SCHIP Humor
Not only does Washington DC often seem removed from reality, but it seems to have an acronym fetish. The latest SCHIP (State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program) debate shows this. The […]
Read More →SCHIP and Maine
Despite Maine being the state with the smallest share of its population under age 18, the SCHIP expansion debate in Congress has received a lot of attention. Recently, Scott Moody […]
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