IRS targeting continues; a handbook for manipulating the public; playing games with government investment-backstopping; healthcare on the long slide down to government destruction.
A look at groups that are likely to seek ways around ObamaCare’s costs and requirements facilitates an understanding of how it will distort not only the healthcare marketplace, but the entire economy.
A study finds that Medicaid doesn’t measurably improve health outcomes by much, raising questions about why Rhode Island leaps into every government program that becomes available.
The education system that John Stossel dubs “the Blob” illustrates the problems with relying on government to provide services and conduct business.
The state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH) offers details about its high overtime costs, such as overtime pay during declared states of emergency and increased retirements after pension reform.
Community living aides in group homes operated by the state government have been able to more than triple their pay with overtime and other salary enhancements. State officials cite union rules as a significant driver.
Multiple sources indicate that Rhode Island’s health insurance costs are high and rising, with the state continuing to layer on mandates that make it more difficult to lower costs or attract competition.
Questions about how the state will pay for Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange point to more basic (and more profound) problems with the entire business model of the project.
The overtime bill for the state government of Rhode Island is up to around $90 million, with thousands of employees making tens of thousands or even more than a hundred thousand dollars in extra pay.
Laundry workers with the state Dept. of Behavioral Healthcare are able to take home six figures of pay in part because state and federal governments spread the cost to different tax bases.
The State of Rhode Island is reluctant to detail how nine employees of taxpayer-funded Eleanor Slater Hospital pull in over $100,000 each in extra pay.
Government’s corrupt pension handling; the discount rate scam; fighting off the zoning inspector; government peeking doesn’t count as privacy invasion.
The lesson of current events and history; what the 2nd Amendment means; what that means for change; government control and healthcare insecurity; government control and economic stagnation; a couple positive notes.
Two narratives on the economy; a health exchange story the media is missing; government as pretend leader; powerful teachers’ unions (plus Ted Nesi’s Rolodex)
Harmful tweaks to ObamaCare point the way to less and less freedom (and less and less prosperity).
Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.
On the politics (and policy) of exit polls, social issues, statism, and hugging.
Author George Shuster tells Kevin J. Mooney that the First Amendment is the last line of defense for U.S. freedom and has been under increased attack under the current President.
RI Governor Lincoln Chafee’s claim to independence at the Democrat National Convention doesn’t jibe with his lunge toward President Obama’s larger welfare intention with health benefit exchanges.
Contaminated drugs raise the choice between chasing the regulatory tail and beginning to analyze the larger causes.
Controlling prices across a continent; a look back at erroneous polls; Matthews in the echo chamber; excuse #2 for Benghazi.
A 1998 recording of then-Illinois-state-senator Barack Obama expressing belief in “redistribution” may be more noteworthy for the evidence that it provides for the motivation behind “dependency portals.”
Many faces of big government: standardized tests; interest group buy-offs; government as marketing practice; and the United States of Panem.
Returning RI to its natural state; RI as a playground for the rich; the gimmick of QE; the gimmick of digital records; killing coal/economy; when “Mostly False” means true.
Mitt Romney has found himself under fire for referencing the number of Americans who he says are dependent on government. Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange is arguably a pathway toward even larger dependency.
By resisting the health care exchange system included as part of the new federal health care law, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has put himself in a stronger position to safeguard taxpayer interests, according to key figures in the state’s delegation to the National Convention in Tampa, FL.
Rhode Island’s standing in some national comparisons related to doctors and Medicaid add further evidence that the Ocean State is not well suited to be a pioneer in implementing health exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
Rhode Island’s Health Benefit Exchange Board includes special interest groups like the Economic Progress Institute, which have worked to expand the scope and reach of various welfare programs. EPI is well positioned to convert the exchange into a “dependency portal.”
Analyzing the sources cited in a PolitiFact investigation of Center for Freedom & Prosperity CEO Mike Stenhouse confirms that Rhode Island does have the most health insurance mandates, and they are the most burdensome in the country.
The origination of Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange raises questions about the health of the state’s democratic system.