Kentucky Medicaid: Expensive and Ineffective
Bluegrass Institute
Obamacare will suck people people out of private health plans and accelerate the rising cost of Medicaid. Program incentives thwart sound medical practice, and participants show little improvement in their health.
Maternity Leave Has Little Impact on Childrens' Cognitive Development
National Bureau of Economic Research
Paid maternity leave is often justified on the grounds that stay-at-home moms foster babies' cognitive development. Turns out that, at least among Canadians, that's not true.
Cut Driving to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and End Oil Imports
World Resources Institute
In 2008 transportation accounted for 71% of U.S. oil consumption and 31% of carbon dioxide emissions. Transportation spending should be targeted to projects that reduce both.
Making Transit-Oriented Development Equitable and Inclusive
Urban Land Institute
Transit-Oriented Development is a glorious thing but planners must take care not to price out the poor.
Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge
Urban Land Institute
The United States lags its global competition in investing in the infrastructure needed to support economic prosperity. Among the recommendations: Maintain what you've got, prioritize gateway regions, and institute user fees to generate sustainable revenue streams.
Most Local Government Pension Plans in Better Shape than State Funds
Center for Retirement Research
Despite some prominent exceptions, local governments are doing a better job overall than state governments in keeping their employee pension funds in sound actuarial condition.
About the first item.
ReplyDeleteSee Managed Care Makes its Way to Exam Room. Wash Post June, 3, 2011for why this is wrong.
If there is not fundamental change in the whole health care system cost will continue to skyrocket an service will continue to decline.
There is no alternative to the costs going up if all citizens are going to be covered.
Beating on “Obamacare” is not the answer. Coming up with fundamentally new strategies that rely on lessons learned in other places that provide better service at less cost is the only rational path.
Does health ever get better? I don't think so. Progressively, it always gets worse. That strikes me as a meaningless observation.
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest anon is correct. But we had to start somewhere. People are getting thrown out of private health insurance faster than obamacare is sucking them out.
"Expand housing options for working families and seniors near train stations and bus routes"
ReplyDeleteYou have to love comments like this. Expand housing options. Like they were balloons and all you have to do is blow them up with hot air.
Expand housing options HOW? It is going to tke money, of which working familie and seniors have very little. So, whose money will you use?
Typically, what happens is that demands are placed on the builders to "provide" a certain number of affordable units, as a requirement to getting the building permits for other units.
That translates to some of the cost coming out of the builders pockets and some being transferred to the buyers/renters of other units.
However, a huge hidden benefit is that the children of these working families are exposed to people they might not meet if they were in a barrio situation, and they attend better schools.\
But the idea of just expanding options is laughable, sand the three other techniques suggested are just as silly.
RH