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KaiPod Learning’s Amar Kumar on Homeschooling Pods & Blended EducationNovember 9, 2022 - 11:19 am
Right To Save: Paying Healthcare Consumers To Shop For ValueNovember 8, 2022 - 9:44 am
Pioneer Institute Statement on Question 1
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, Graduated Income Tax, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity /by Editorial StaffYesterday, voters came closer than many expected to rejecting the largest tax increase in Massachusetts history, even though opponents were dramatically outspent by the unions that bankrolled the amendment to the state Constitution.
KaiPod Learning’s Amar Kumar on Homeschooling Pods & Blended Education
/in Featured, Podcast, School Choice, Virtual Schools /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard talk with Amar Kumar, founder and CEO of KaiPod Learning, a network of in-person education centers for online learners and homeschoolers, based in Massachusetts. They discuss how the pandemic dramatically changed parents’ sentiments about their traditional public schools, opening the door to wider private school choice options, including homeschooling, micro schools, and pods.
Right To Save: Paying Healthcare Consumers To Shop For Value
/in Featured, Healthcare, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with healthcare policy expert Josh Archambault about the findings from his Cicero Institute report, The Right to Save: The Next Generation of Price Transparency. He outlines how to incentivize healthcare consumers to utilize price information to reduce out-of-pocket costs, and lower healthcare costs for everyone.
Taxachusetts Must Be Stopped
/in Oped: Economy, Opeds /by Charles ChieppoGoing back to the bad old days of Taxachusetts would be an almost unfathomable mistake. Between the $3 billion bombshell that upended the recent legislative session, the ambiguity about how the tax revenue will actually be spent, and the contrasting examples of neighboring New Hampshire and Connecticut, Bay State voters have plenty of reasons to come back to reality and reject the ill-conceived proposal to amend the Massachusetts constitution this November.
Harvard research points to ending drug cost help
/in Featured, Oped: Healthcare, Oped: Life Sciences /by William SmithA common grievance about Harvard is that the university is out of touch with the concerns of everyday Americans. This perception is confirmed by recent research from Harvard Business School that contends patients should be denied assistance that helps them afford their prescription drugs. The Harvard study argues that in order to control drug prices, the government should deny patients’ access to copay assistance programs offered by drug manufacturers. It flies in the face of federal and state efforts to protect the value of such assistance programs for patients and ignores basic facts about how and when patients use copay assistance to access their medications.