Big Hospitals, Big Bills, a Better Idea
“What does ‘free’ healthcare mean? . . . It isn’t free treatment, it’s depersonalized treatment.” — Dr. Oreshchenkov in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1967 novel “Cancer Ward.” By Craig Ladwig An idea planted here six years ago could make the difference in Indiana healthcare. It begins by asking Indiana hospitals to give patients a firm price in Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (39): Caleb Mills Helped Build Indiana School System
by Andrea Neal Indiana’s 1816 Constitution called for a statewide system of free public schools, but it didn’t happen until the 1850s — after education reformers demanded it. The chief lobbyist for taxpayer-funded schools was Caleb Mills, who used the power of the pen to persuade lawmakers that illiteracy was a threat to Indiana’s future. Read the full article…
Horning: Jonathan Gruber’s Got Your Number
by Andy Horning You may label me a cultural illiterate, an ignoramus — and that’s more fact than denunciation. I don’t know anything about professional sports, for example. I know there are innumerable magazines, cable channels, radio stations and websites devoted to such things. Many Americans can rattle off sport statistics back to the 19-aughts Read the full article…
The Outstater: The Indy Star Strikes a ‘Racist’ Cartoon
MANY OF US HERE would rather ignore the Indianapolis Star’s Gannett-speak, as do most thoughtful persons. But the newspaper is an Indiana mass medium, so our mission statement requires our attention to it. Respecting the membership’s time nonetheless, we are stating the conclusion up front: The Star as an indicator of the public mood, a Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: The Chamber’s Education ‘Reform’
“THE WHOLE MODERN WORLD has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives,” C.K. Chesterton famously began. “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes; the business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” Holding Chesterton’s thought close, know that the mantle of education reformer is wearing thin for the Indiana Read the full article…
King: Indiana and Pence Score High on Cato Index
By Stephen M. King, Ph.D. The Cato Institute, a Washington D.C. libertarian policy think tank, recently released its “2014 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors.” The results are positive for Indiana. The goal of the biennial report is to grade and comment on all 50 governors’ “fiscal policies from a limited-government perspective.” Only four Read the full article…
