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by cascade policy institute on May 22, 2013 in Audio, Education, Publications, QuickPoints!, School Choice Project

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Education writer Betsy Hammond Levaquin without a prescription, recently reported that, according to a study done by The Oregonian, in the 2013-2014 fiscal year the budget woes of most school districts will not come primarily from PERS, Oregon’s retirement system for its public employees. Levaquin prescription, The teachers unions (among others) no doubt will celebrate this finding, but they should not, levaquin cost. Buy levaquin cheap, What is important is not that the financial woes of most school districts are not caused only by PERS, but rather fixing what else is at fault, levaquin in malaysia. Buy discount levaquin online, As Hammond writes, major expenditures include additional hiring, generic levaquin online, No rx levaquin, employee health care, and employee pay raises, buy levaquin us. Order discount levaquin online, So the problem is bigger than just PERS: Schools are running up debt and spending taxpayer money, not on greater classroom expenses, canadian pharmacy levaquin, Levaquin australia, but on employees.

Oregon is a state that believes in investing in its children and their future, but that is not what is happening here, levaquin without a prescription. Money is being spent on the employees of the education system rather than on the education itself, find discount levaquin. Purchase levaquin without prescription, Oregon’s parents and taxpayers should not put up with this; they should demand real change. They should demand that their tax dollars follow students to the schools of their choice and that school districts rein in their administrative and employee expenditures, cheapest levaquin prices. Buying generic levaquin, Doug DeFilipps is a research associate at Cascade Policy Institute. He is a recent graduate of Santa Clara University., buy levaquin lowest price. Order levaquin. Buy no rx levaquin. Price of levaquin. Buy levaquin no prescription required.

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by cascade policy institute on May 22, 2013 in Commentaries, Entitlement, Health Care, Publications

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Does having health insurance actually save lives or improve health more than being uninsured? This question has not been answered until very recently.

In 2008, Cheap pristiq from usa, Oregon lawmakers decided they had enough additional public money to add 10,000 people to the state’s Medicaid program. So, Oregon officials held a lottery that ultimately signed up 6, pristiq without rx,400 new Medicaid enrollees. A further 5, Cost of pristiq, 800 people were eligible for the program but were not selected. People in this group had the same health and economic profile as the lottery winners. This created the perfect test case on the effectiveness of Medicaid in providing care. These 5,800 people became the control group in an objective, randomized study, cheapest pristiq price.

The two-year results of the health comparison study were published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine. The conclusion is surprising. Find discount pristiq online, It turns out that having Medicaid health insurance does not improve health outcomes, nor does it improve mortality statistics, compared with having no insurance coverage at all. The Medicaid group had no improvement in the important objective measurements of blood sugar levels, cheap pristiq from usa, blood pressure, Pristiq online pharmacy, and cholesterol levels. The study did find that vaguely defined “mental health” did improve. However, this was done via subjective telephone interviews, order pristiq no rx, not objective clinical data. For those few people requiring prolonged medical and hospital treatment, Order cheap pristiq, having Medicaid did improve their financial status because their medical bills were covered by federal and Oregon taxpayers.

The existing Medicaid program has 60 million enrollees nationally at a cost of $430 billion per year. Looking forward, the cost is estimated to increase to $900 billion per year by 2019, pristiq without a prescription. Medicaid is an extremely inefficient program, and reimbursement for doctors and other providers is about half of what private insurance pays for the same services. Doctors are not able to pay their own overhead with these low payment rates, order pristiq without prescription. Consequently, Order pristiq cheap online, existing Medicaid patients have trouble getting access to health care.

The Washington State Medical Association did a recent survey of primary care providers. Results showed 18 percent had dropped all Medicaid patients, and 24 percent were not taking new Medicaid patients, pristiq overnight, due to poor payment and the complexities of Medicaid cases compared with privately insured patients. Drug pristiq, Getting access to health care is a significant problem for people in the existing Medicaid program in Washington. It turns out that having insurance on paper is not the same as actually obtaining health care services. Pristiq without a prescription, The Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, gives states the option to expand Medicaid to at least 16 million new patients nationally and 280,000 in Washington State. The law says that any adult over the age of 18 who earns less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for Medicaid. The estimated cost of this expansion to taxpayers is at least $450 billion over the first 10 years, beginning in 2014.

The Oregon study confirms that Medicaid does not provide better health care to people than having no health insurance at all. These terrible results not only come with a huge taxpayer cost, but also trap poor individuals in a virtually worthless health insurance plan, buy cheapest pristiq on line.

The Washington State Legislature is considering expanding Medicaid in the current state budget negotiations. The federal government is bribing states with federal taxpayer money to expand Medicaid. Many state lawmakers support the expansion because it feels like “free” federal money, Find cheap pristiq online, and they reason that Medicaid is better than no health insurance at all. The large, randomized Oregon study shows this is not true.

Of course, pharmacy pristiq, state taxpayers are also federal taxpayers, Find pristiq, so ultimately the people of Washington State will pay for this Medicaid expansion. Medicaid is a pay-as-you-go program. The idea of leaving free federal money on the table makes no sense. If Medicaid doesn’t expand, the burden of taxes should be reduced for everyone, pristiq for sale.

Medical outcomes for people in the Medicaid program are no better than outcomes for people without health insurance. This fact makes it very difficult to argue that Medicaid is better than no insurance, especially considering the tremendous cost involved, pristiq without a prescription. Washington’s state legislators would do better to improve their existing Medicaid program; eliminate waste, Order pristiq online, fraud, and abuse; improve access; and make the program a real safety-net health insurance plan that provides quality care at a reasonable cost. Oregon’s state legislators should do the same, certified pristiq.

Dr. Roger Stark is a health care policy analyst at Washington Policy Center in Seattle, Washington and a retired cardiothoracic surgeon. He has authored numerous in-depth studies on health care policy. Dr. Stark was one of the cofounders of the open-heart surgery program at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue and served on the hospital’s governing board. He is a guest contributor for Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research center.

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by cascade policy institute on May 17, 2013 in Commentaries, Publications, Tax and Budget

By Doug DeFilipps Imitrex without a prescription, Imagine your government laid a tax on the entire population, one in which in the same amount is paid by virtually everyone. And people are not simply taxed the same percentage of income, Order imitrex on internet, but the same dollar amount. Now imagine the money raised from this tax is spent on entertainment for the upper classes. You might think this sort of thing only happened in ages past, order cheap imitrex, under rulers like Marie Antoinette; but it is happening today, Imitrex india, here in Portland, Oregon. An annual head tax of $35 per resident over the age of 18 is being levied―the only exception granted is for those living under the poverty line, real imitrex without prescription.

The funds will go first to Portland-area schools, with the goal of hiring one art teacher to every 500 students, imitrex without a prescription. The remainder will fund various art endeavors in the city. Buy cheapest imitrex online, These endeavors include the Oregon Symphony, as well as other organizations and museums. I am by no means trying to diminish the cultural importance of any of these artistic organizations, imitrex. I myself thoroughly enjoy visiting museums around the city. Imitrex without a prescription,

However, I also know that many of these are patronized primarily by middle- and upper-class Portlanders―not low-income Portlanders. Buy imitrex from canada, Nonetheless, lower-wage earners will be forced to pay for these artistic endeavors through the new tax in spite of the fact that they enjoy them far less. Though the tax is only on those making above the poverty line ($23, buy no rx imitrex,681 for a family of four), Buy imitrex online, I think it is safe to say that not everyone making above that amount is exactly rich.

Equally appalling is that, as mentioned above, cheap imitrex without prescription, people with low incomes will pay the exact same amount as people with high incomes, Buy imitrex in canada, in spite of the fact that $35 means a great deal more to them. Why should those who have the least sacrifice the most for something that will benefit them the least. Furthermore, the Portland art community is already generously supported voluntarily, imitrex without a prescription. If the wealthy are already willing to open their wallets, buy imitrex cheap, why should the poorest be forced to open theirs. Cheap imitrex,

The City of Portland is imitating Marie Antoinette’s follies. Most of the tax dollars that went to pay her expenses were raised through highly regressive taxation mostly imposed on poor peasants. These included the Gabelle, pharmacy imitrex, a tax on salt that fell most heavily on the poor. Imitrex without a prescription, Those same poor peasants, for the most part, would never see or enjoy what their money had paid for (the Palace at Versailles was open to the public but well out of traveling distance for most). Imitrex pill, They would never see Marie Antoinette’s lavish jewels or gowns or walk through the lovely gardens outside her Petit Trianon.

It is also worth pointing out that this kind of tax is forbidden by the Oregon Constitution. The constitution, overnight imitrex, which supersedes any laws passed by the city, Approved imitrex pharmacy, specifically forbids a head tax. The Arts Tax obviously would fall under the category of a head tax, demanding an equal amount from all adult citizens regardless of means, find discount imitrex.

The Portland Arts Tax is unnecessary and unfair, imitrex without a prescription. It taxes those who are least able to pay for something they will rarely, Find imitrex no prescription required, if ever, use. And since many Oregonians already subsidize the artistic institutions the tax will benefit of their own free will, buy discount imitrex, why should everyone else be forced to.

Doug DeFilipps is a research associate at Cascade Policy Institute. He is a recent graduate of Santa Clara University..

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by John Charles on May 16, 2013 in Publications

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Current Yellow MAX line service is one train every 15 minutes, retin-a pills, Retin-a online without a prescription, all day. There will be no peak-hour service to Vancouver at 7.5-minute intervals, because TriMet has reduced service by 14% in the past five years, retin-a without a prescription. The agency is broke, retin-a price. Low cost retin-a, Finally, the maximum one-way capacity of a two-car light rail train is approximately 274, discount retin-a without prescription. Order retin-a from us, Multiplying this times eight trains per hour in the peak direction is 2,192 riders, retin-a generic, Retin-a free sample, not 6,100, buy retin-a from us. Canadian retin-a, The fact is, C-TRAN’s express bus service is far superior to the slow MAX, retin-a overnight delivery, Retin-a internet, so why spend $930 million on a slow train to Vancouver. That’s the question that should be asked, buy retin-a generic. Cheap retin-a on internet, John A. Charles, retin-a side effects, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..

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by cascade policy institute on May 9, 2013 in Commentaries, Health Care, Publications

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The ACA is a 2,700-page, achingly complex, monstrous law that will soon control one-sixth of our economy. The country continues to dislike ObamaCare and remains puzzled by its mind-numbing complexity.

Everyone agrees health care needs to be reformed. Patients making informed choices in a free market―not top-down government mandates that will only result in higher costs, not better care―will put patients in charge of their health care decisions and their own health care dollars.

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by John Charles on May 3, 2013 in Cascade in the Capitol, John Charles, Publications, Tax and Budget, Testimony

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Between state and federal tobacco taxes, plus the price hikes needed by the major tobacco companies to make the MSA payments, tobacco users have paid more than their fair share for any so-called “negative social externalities” associated with smoking. Please leave them alone by tabling HB 2870.

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by John Charles on May 3, 2013 in Commentaries, John Charles, Publications, Transportation

Estradiol valerate without a prescription, February marked the four-year anniversary of the Westside Express Service (WES), the 14.7-mile commuter rail line that runs from Wilsonville to Beaverton. While the train’s owner, Order discount estradiol valerate, TriMet, has emphasized the steady growth in ridership over time, the truth is that WES has been a failure, estradiol valerate in australia. Daily boardings are still far below the opening-day forecast, Estradiol valerate buy online, and taxpayers subsidize each rider by nearly $40 per round trip.

Although WES was 15 years in the making, it was always a project in search of a purpose, estradiol valerate buy drug. At various times the train was promoted as: (1) a congestion relief tool for HWY 217; (2) a catalyst for so-called “Transit-Oriented Development;” or (3) a way of providing “another option” for travelers. None of these arguments holds up to scrutiny, estradiol valerate without a prescription. Where to buy estradiol valerate, During legislative hearings in Salem, representatives from Washington County claimed that WES would take 5,000 motor vehicles per day off of nearby highways, cheap estradiol valerate from uk. But WES is not even capable of doing that because it only runs 8 times (each direction) over a four-hour period in the morning, Estradiol valerate without a prescription, and 8 more times in the afternoon, with seating capacity limited to 154 or less on each trip. The train does not run at all on weekends, estradiol valerate in malaysia.

In contrast, Order estradiol valerate no prescription required, both HWY 217 and I-5 are heavily used throughout the day, every day of the week, by passenger cars, cheap estradiol valerate no rx, trucks, Estradiol valerate prices, buses and emergency service vehicles. Estradiol valerate without a prescription, WES only caters to passengers.

During its best hours of performance, the total number of passengers traveling on WES is less than 0.5% the number of motorists traveling on HWY 217/I-5 at those same hours, estradiol valerate without prescription. Moreover, Find discount estradiol valerate online, every time WES crosses Scholls Ferry Road or any of the other busy East-West thoroughfares, it ties up dozens of vehicles for 40 seconds or more. Since the train itself typically only carries 20-50 passengers per trip, lowest price for estradiol valerate, this means that WES actually has made Washington County congestion worse than it was before the train opened. Buy cheap estradiol valerate, WES also will not be a catalyst for “transit-oriented development,” because the train stations are a nuisance, not an amenity, estradiol valerate non prescription. The noise associated with train arrivals was always underestimated and has proven to be a significant problem for nearby businesses and residents, estradiol valerate without a prescription.

As for the hope that WES would provide “another transit option, Buy generic estradiol valerate, ” there were already two TriMet bus lines providing over 4,000 boardings per day in parallel routes prior to the opening of WES. Commuter rail simply replaced inexpensive bus service with a massively subsidized train, buy estradiol valerate lowest price.

Several key statistics summarize the problems with the train:

WES was originally projected to cost $65 million and open in 2000. Estradiol valerate no rx required, It actually cost $161.2 million and opened in 2009.

TriMet projected an average daily ridership of 2,400 weekday boardings in the first year; actual weekday ridership was 1,156 in 2009 and has grown to 1, cheap estradiol valerate internet,639 in 2013. Estradiol valerate without a prescription, Since each rider typically boards twice daily, only about 820 people actually use WES regularly.

To truly appreciate the high cost of commuter rail, we need to compare it with other types of service offered by TriMet: light rail and bus. The following are averages for the month of January 2013.

	Operating cost per Vehicle-hour	Operating cost per Originating ride	Operating cost per Vehicle-mile

Bus	102.14	3.97	7.94
MAX	282.13	2.52	18.84
WES	$ 1,251.94	$ 20.31	$ 57.30

The operating costs for WES are 12 times higher per hour than bus service, but the public benefits are not 12 times higher. In fact, WES is not even equal to bus service; it is far less flexible, and the equipment is unused most of the time.

TriMet recently predicted that within the next decade, more than half of all bus routes will be eliminated due to operating losses if something doesn’t change. The Board places the blame for this on a labor union contract that saddles the agency with the costliest employee benefits package in the nation, estradiol valerate without a prescription. But the union did not force management to build an absurd commuter rail line; that was a choice made by the Board alone, without any consideration of the legacy costs it would impose on future riders.

There will be no happy ending to this story. WES is destined to be a one-hit wonder―an expensive monument to the egos of Westside politicians and TriMet managers. Taxpayers would be better served over the long term if we simply cancelled WES, repaid grant funds to the federal government, and moved the few WES customers back to buses.

John A. Charles, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..

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by Kathryn Hickok on May 2, 2013 in Audio, Children's Scholarship Fund Portland, Education, Kathryn Hickok, Publications, QuickPoints!, School Choice Project

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More than 250,000 students attend private schools through 41 school choice programs in 22 states and Washington, buy zyprexa canada, Zyprexa pharmacy, D.C. Expanding educational options through widely accessible school choice programs for all children can deliver the kind of dramatic improvement American schools desperately need to meet the diverse needs and aptitudes of all students. Putting parents back in charge is the way to revolutionize education today.

Kathryn Hickok is Publications Director and Director of the Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland program at Cascade Policy Institute.

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by John Charles on April 26, 2013 in Commentaries, Environment, John Charles, Land Use, Publications

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Unfortunately, nexium cheap drug, Nexium purchase, this problem will not be addressed with Metro’s proposed levy (Measure 26-152) that will be on the May 21 ballot. Metro officials have stated that if the operating levy passes, only 5-15% of the money will be used to make natural areas more accessible to the public.

According to the levy proponents, the rest of the estimated $10 million in annual tax funding will go to the following uses:

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Moreover, buy nexium on internet, Certified nexium, Metro’s conception of “habitat restoration” is not very compelling. Nexium without a prescription, It includes projects such as clear-cutting politically incorrect tree species (Douglas fir) in order to re-plant with Oregon white oak. There is no scientific reason to replace one tree species with another; it is simply an aesthetic preference of Metro planners, nexium tablets. Buy nexium in us, Given that taxpayers already have provided more than $300 million for Metro to buy up lands, a more respectful approach would be for Metro to make public access the top priority and to pay for it out of Metro’s general fund, buy nexium pills. Cheap nexium overnight delivery, Over the past decade the Metro budget has grown steadily, and more than 60 new full-time employees have been hired, best price for nexium. Obviously, Metro could pay for parks maintenance without a levy.

We also know that maintenance should not cost $10 million annually, because in 2011, Metro’s net operating cost of managing seven natural areas was only $630,747, nexium without a prescription. Even if Metro had to maintain 25 areas instead of seven (as would be the case under this levy), maintenance costs should be closer to $3 million, not $10 million.

As the national recession continues, Oregon families have had to make difficult choices in order to stay afloat. Many people have lost homes to foreclosure or had their electricity shut off. Metro councilors need to do some belt-tightening of their own. They should pay for operations of natural areas out of existing revenues and make public access to those areas the top priority.

John A. Charles, Jr. is President and CEO of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization..