By Johan Soto It can be hard to grasp just how far-reaching government has become in our daily lives. But with over 52,000 regulations just at the state level, the government has a […]
Excessive Regulation Hurts Alaskans
Short-Term Plans: One Insurance Option for Alaskans in Transition
Without a doubt, we are living in interesting times full of uncertainty. With the unemployment rate currently increasing rapidly, many individuals are now without healthcare coverage. For those looking for insurance coverage while […]
Video: Recovery Agenda for Alaska
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Innovation, Information, and Ingenuity Can Fight COVID-19
By Grace-Marie Turner This article was originally published by the Galen Institute on March 20, 2020. The coronavirus crisis has, in a few short months, reshaped our lives, the world economy, and our […]
Flattening the Coronavirus Curve Shouldn’t Be Shouldered Solely by Private Businesses
By Win Gruening This op-ed originally appeared in the Juneau Empire on March 19, 2020. In the space of a few short months, our world has been abruptly upended. On March 11, the World […]
Surprise! Potential Solutions for High Health Care Costs
Alaska has the highest health care costs (per capita) in the nation. There are many reasons for this, and one that has been receiving great attention in recent years is what is commonly […]
Another blow to Obamacare–Alaskans should celebrate
With the highest unemployment rate in the nation and some of the most expensive health insurance and care costs, Alaskans have reason to celebrate new rules that were released today by President Trump’s […]
Walker’s DHSS Medicaid Failure
All we can say is, “we told you so.” When the discussions on Medicaid Expansion began in earnest in 2013, we brought the facts to light over the next couple of years. There […]
Attention Alaskan small business owners!
If you want to obtain less expensive health insurance for your 50-or-fewer employees, you will want to keep reading. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) states that every health insurance plan must contain ten […]
Senate Bill 193 Testimony
Government can give opportunity to people, but it will never be able to give people what they truly want and what they need: They need dignity, achievement and self-worth. Those things are not […]
Alaska options for health care reform and administrative improvements to the Affordable Care Act
By Roger Stark, MD, FACS, Alaska Policy Forum Visiting Scholar and WPC Health Care Policy Analyst Patients are the most important part of the health care system and they should be in charge of […]
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Will Alaska be Swallowed by Health Care Costs?
Some good questions were asked this week by state legislators about Alaska’s ballooning health care budget. On Wednesday, January 19 in the Senate Finance Committee meeting, Governor Walker’s Director of the Office of […]
Alaska Keeps Missing Important Deadlines . . . Stalling?
In 2016 in an attempt to bring down costs and improve care, the Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 74, which contained a multitude of Medicaid reform measures such as fraud-waste-and-abuse reduction, managed care […]
Quickbrief: Medicaid Expan$ion Will Bankrupt the States
The passage of health care reform earlier in 2010 brought with it significant expansions in Medicaid, the joint State/Federal welfare program administered by the states. Even though the federal government will be picking up the tab for the first few years, ultimately, the states will find the share they are required to pay unaffordable.
America under tax burden
(Heritage Foundation) With Bush-Era tax cuts set to expire and the new health care law ready to start collecting, The Heritage Foundation takes an indepth look at the general financial health of the country in the coming years.