Alaska Policy Forum is proud to have partnered with economic experts at The Buckeye Institute and its Economic Research Center to release our latest policy paper: a study of Alaska’s budget, economy andRead More
Direct Health Care
House Bill 92, “An Act exempting direct health care agreements from regulation as insurance; establishing a direct care payment program for medical assistance recipients; and providing for an effective date.” Link to theRead More
The Hard Truth About Medicaid Expansion
The following op-ed was published in the Anchorage Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Delta Discovery, the Peninsula Clarion, and the Ketchikan Daily News in February 2019. It’s time for a reality check.Read More
Third-Grade Literacy: Alaska’s students must Read by 9
The Problem Statistics for literacy among Alaska’s children are dismal. Alaska’s K-12 education system has arguably the worst student outcomes in the nation in the fundamental task of teaching children to read byRead More