Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Medically induced silence: In an article in Forbes magazine discussing President Obama’s silence on his landmark legislation during the Democratic National Convention, […]
September 7, 2012 It’s Friday! Register now! The third annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum takes place on Friday, September 21, at the W Hotel in Midtown Atlanta. This year’s event […]
(Editor’s Note: This profile of Texas Public Policy Foundation President Brooke Rollins is republished with permission from the Independent Women’s Forum. Rollins will discuss the Texas free market economy at […]
Using “Plan T,” Atlanta has an opportunity to replace its reputation as one of the “most congested cities” and become as the “go to” place for business. By Michael Dziak […]
(Editor’s Note: Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court health care law decision impact at the 2012 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum on Friday, September 21 at […]
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd On common ground: The Galen Institute held a forum at last week’s Republican National Convention; the panel that included Georgia’s two physician […]
August 31, 2012 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the United States, by […]
Any good economist will tell you that as complementary factors of production, labor and capital are not only indispensable but hugely dependent upon each other as well. By Lawrence W. Reed […]
The recent health care debate has completely ignored one of the major health care cost drivers: defensive medicine. Writing in The Hill, Dr. Jeff Segal states why the Affordable Care Act will […]
The National Center for Policy Analysis reports: The Institute of Energy Research recently published Hard Facts, an energy primer that seeks to correct myths that shroud current debate surrounding energy. Domestically, […]
August 24, 2012 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note Correction: Two of the Quotes of Note in last week’s Friday Facts were incorrectly attributed to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. Our […]
By Lawrence Reed Those of us who want to make government small and keep it limited as America’s Founders intended sometimes come across to others as naysayers. Because we don’t […]
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd “Can markets work in health care?” is the headline of a Forbes magazine article reminding us of a 1974 study that demonstrated […]
August 17, 2012 It’s Friday! Visit the Foundation’s new Web site at www.georgiapolicy.org then e-mail us at to tell us what you think of it! Quotes of note “If […]
By Brian Klepper and Tom Emerick Independent of whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains, public and private purchasers are unlikely to see meaningful health care cost reductions […]
The only way to know with confidence whether charters cause better outcomes is to look at randomized control trials (RCTs) in which students are assigned by lottery to attending a […]
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national organization that “works with schools, districts and states to provide excellent teachers to the students who need them most and advance policies […]
By Grace-Marie Turner ObamaCare violates American values down to our country’s very DNA. A majority of Americans continue to oppose the health law because we understand that it is at […]
By William McBride The Tax Policy Center (TPC) has a new paper that claims Mitt Romney’s tax plan necessarily leads to lower taxes on high-income earners and higher taxes on everyone else: […]
By Mike Klein What’s in the Maryland water? A student performance analysis that contains encouraging news about Georgia also leads to the inescapable conclusion that Maryland has really gotten its […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination […]
By Grace-Marie Turner “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep […]
By Mike Klein Health care policy is a complex beast with seemingly intractable political positions, lots of data to support or refute almost anyone’s perspective, tons of financial impact analysis […]
By Harold Brown A lawsuit filed this week against the federal Environmental Protection Agency accuses the agency of penalizing refiners for failing to meet “unattainable and absurd” cellulosic biofuels quotas […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “All of the progress that the U.S. has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from […]
By Harold Brown A lawsuit filed this week against the federal Environmental Protection Agency accuses the agency of penalizing refiners for failing to meet “unattainable and absurd” cellulosic biofuels quotas […]
By Dennis G. Smith The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) guarantees the debate over health care will continue. Supporters of the […]
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” – T.S. Eliot – “But […]
By Dennis G. Smith The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) guarantees the debate over health care will continue. Supporters of the […]
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