Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’

45 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee

45 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today made available in electronic version its most recent publication, An Idea a Day: 45 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee. The pamphlet offers one innovative free market idea for each remaining legislative day of the 106th General Assembly. Each...
January 21st, 2010 | Feature, Policy | Read More

Healthcare Debate Shows Liberalism has Lost its Way

TCPR scholar Dr. Richard Grant explains how healthcare “reform” is part of a larger problem. This article originally appeared in The Tennessean. If you could choose the country of your birth, would you choose a free and prosperous republic where your neighbors would respect your right to...
January 4th, 2010 | Commentary | Read More

How the Senate Stole Healthcare

Everyone down in America Liked their healthcare a lot . . . But the Senate up in Washington Certainly did NOT! The Senate so hated healthcare that on Christmas Eve, They planned a vote to take it over—oh how naïve. Mandates and taxes, bureaucrats and handouts, These are the things that the Senate...
December 22nd, 2009 | Commentary | Read More

Federal Medicaid Expansion would Wreak Havoc on Tennessee

By Justin Owen NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today sent a brief to state lawmakers outlining the potential costs the proposed healthcare reform bills in Congress will have on the state. Both the House and Senate bills expand Medicaid eligibility, potentially devastating Tennessee’s...
December 3rd, 2009 | Policy | Read More

A Billion-Dollar Bill, Courtesy of Washington

Justin Owen warns that healthcare “reform” could cost Tennesseans more than $1 billion resulting from the proposed Medicaid/TennCare expansion. This article originally appeared in the Chattanoogan. by Justin Owen Healthcare reform is front and center on the national political landscape, and...
October 8th, 2009 | Commentary | Read More

5 Innovative Healthcare Solutions For Tennessee

By Justin Owen The Tennessee Center for Policy Research today released a brief titled Implementing State-Based Healthcare Reform in Tennessee. The brief offers five solutions to reducing the costs of and expanding access to insurance for Tennesseans. You can review the brief by clicking here.
September 30th, 2009 | Policy | Read More

Analysis: President Obama’s Healthcare Speech

By Justin Owen Based on a compilation of independent sources, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has analyzed President Obama’s September 9th speech to a joint session of Congress outlining his new healthcare plan. Click here for the analysis.
September 13th, 2009 | Policy | Read More

Less Regulation is Solution to Keeping Healthcare Costs Low

TCPR Chairman John Cerasuolo, who is also the president of ADS Security in Nashville, discusses healthcare in the Nashville Business Journal. “Faced with mounting health insurance costs, Middle Tennessee small business owners are searching for solutions to protect their bottom lines and still provide...
July 30th, 2009 | Commentary | Read More

2009 Legislator’s Guide to the Issues

2009 Legislator’s Guide to the Issues
At the advent of the 106th General Assembly, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research provided every member of the state legislature with a comprehensive guide to the issues facing the State of Tennessee. The Legislators’ Guide to the Issues provides free market policy solutions to issues related...
February 11th, 2009 | Feature, Policy | Read More

The Accidental Usher: How the Current Battle Over TennCare Reform Could put the Free Market Back Into Healthcare

By Drew Johnson Gov. Bredesen managed to do the nearly impossible in his recently unveiled plan to salvage TennCare—frustrate many of those advocating the demise of the budget-busting program and those lobbying to protect current benefits. With his proposal to shave $575 million from the behemoth $8.04...
March 1st, 2008 | Commentary | Read More

Consider Another Way to Deliver Healthcare than Public Clinic

By Dr. Robert S. Berry Over the next few weeks, approximately 226,000 individuals will receive a TennCare disenrollment letter notifying them that they will soon join the over 500,000 Tennesseans who are already uninsured. Over the next few weeks, approximately 226,000 individuals will receive a TennCare...
June 16th, 2005 | Commentary | Read More
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