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Asleep at the wheel – mid-race
/2 Comments/in Blog, News /byEveryone outside of the Dome knows that Massachusetts is in a race for jobs. When you are in a race, you run the whole race. You don’t just show up for the flag waving. If you listen to Governor Patrick talk about how Fidelity did not give the state an opportunity to “compete for jobs,” I am sorry. Fidelity has been competing all along, trying to beat its competition. It’s the state that has for the longest time turned a blind eye toward financial services, one of its largest sectors, and more specifically toward one of its largest employers. State House News [subscription required] reports that: Back from his 10-day trade mission to Israel and Great Britain, Gov. Deval Patrick […]
Report Urges Reforms to Massachusetts Connector
/0 Comments/in Healthcare, Press Releases, Press Releases: Health Care /byPioneer Institute lays out seven steps to correct the Connector’s over-reliance on revenue generated from subsidized insurance products, and aid the small business community.
VIDEO DEBATE: Obamacare One Year Out
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Healthcare, Healthcare, Hewitt Lecture, News /byWith the one year anniversary of the passage and signing of the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” next week, there will be many op-eds and articles trying to capture how things have changed over the last 12 months. Pioneer Institute decided the best way to do a “check-up” was to put two of the nation’s preeminent minds on health policy: Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former adviser to McCain for President, and Dr. Jonathan Gruber, former adviser to President Obama– in one room for a debate. The event naturally built on last year’s Hewitt Lecture delivered by the Dean of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jeffrey Flier, in which he gave his pessimistic assessment of the newly passed law days after it passed […]
2011 Hewitt Health Care Lecture
/in Hewitt Lecture /by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute’s 2011 Hewitt Health Care Lecture at Harvard Medical School focused on the passage of the federal health overhaul, and featured a debate between two of the nation’s preeminent health policy experts: Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former advisor to McCain for President, and Dr. Jonathan Gruber, advisor to President Obama.
Dumping Massachusetts’ Know-Nothing Amendments: Church, State, and School Reform
/in Press Releases, Press Releases: Education, Press Releases: Religious Education, Press Releases: School Choice, Related Education Blogs, School Choice /byPioneer released a research paper on Massachusetts Catholic schools, giving them high marks for providing a high-quality education and a safe learning environment for poor and working-class families at a substantially lower cost than the average public school’s per-pupil expenditure.