Oregon’s Last Mask Mandate Has Been Lifted, But State Policy Guarantees More Lockdowns in the Next Pandemic
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Earlier this month, Oregon lifted its mask mandate for…
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A Misplaced Moral Panic Over Teen Vaping
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. The moral crisis over vaping has hit the Oregon…
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A Holiday Wishlist for Oregon
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. ‘Tis the season for holiday wishes. And, toward that…
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For Oregon’s New Governor, Great Power Comes with Great Responsibility
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. It’s the day after Election Day and the votes…
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Oregon Needs a Free-Market Makeover
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D “What’s the one thing you’d do to fix Oregon?”…
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Oregonians Want More Hospital Beds. The Oregon Health Authority Is Standing in the Way.
By Micah Perry According to a new survey from the Oregon Values and…
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Why is Oregon One of the Last States with a Mask Mandate?
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Why does Oregon still have a mask mandate? Oregon…
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Bud Clark Was More Than “Whoop! Whoop!”
He Had the Right Approach on Homelessness By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Fewer than…
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Oregon’s Measure 110 needs more accountability for drug users
By Rachel Dawson Nearly a year after Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment began, results…
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Oregon Needs More Hospital Beds and Less Regulation
By Micah Perry Tired of wearing a mask? You’re not alone. In August,…
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Portland Street Response: What Are You Waiting For?
By Vlad Yurlov Portland’s Lents neighborhood got a new homeless program in 2021….
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Prepare for Portland’s Post-Pandemic Party
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. We’re in the waning days of the pandemic, and…
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In Search of an Oregon Drug Policy
By John A. Charles, Jr. Last November, Oregon voters approved three ballot measures…
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Banning Bacon Won’t Heal the Sick
By Vlad Yurlov If you thought hospital food was bland now, get ready…
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Reduce Homelessness by Reusing the Expo Center
By Vlad Yurlov Portland values its “green” projects; but local policymakers are attempting…
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Press Release: Cascade Policy Institute Offers Straightforward Solutions to Oregon’s Homeless Crisis
January 22, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Eric Fruits, Ph.D.Office: (503) [email protected]…
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2021: The Year of Wishful Thinking
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. With the clock ticking down to midnight on December…
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Oregon’s new cigarette taxes will hurt, not help, low-income residents
By Rachel Dawson Oregon couldn’t let a new year commence without the rollout…
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Oregon Is Stopping Hospital Construction for Your Own Good
Eliminating Oregon’s Certificate of Need laws would significantly improve health care By Vlad…
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Winter Is Coming, the Homeless Need Shelter, and the Expo Center Has the Space
By Eric Fruits. Ph.D. Winter is coming to Oregon, and it might be…
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Oregon’s New Drug Law Contains a Lethal Dose of Unaccountability
Voters approve Measure 110, decriminalizing drugs while creating an unaccountable bureaucracy By Eric…
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Government Alone Can’t Solve Homelessness
By Vlad Yurlov On October 2, Helping Hands unveiled its latest transitional housing…
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Nature 1, Lockdown 0
John A. Charles, Jr. Public officials are angry that thousands of Oregonians have…
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Tax Relief Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19 Financial Panic
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. The coronavirus is already taking a toll on our…
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Fresh Spinach for Indifferent Students: Oregon’s Costly Farm-to-School Program
By Helen Cook When did you last hear a child profess his love…
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Reform of Oregon’s Foster Care System Is Long Overdue
By Justus Armstrong Are we failing Oregon’s foster kids? A January audit from…
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Direct Primary Care Puts Patients First, Lowers Health Care Costs
By Justus Armstrong Could forgoing health insurance make health care more affordable? That’s…
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Right to Try Goes National
By Steve Buckstein Last week President Trump signed a national Right to Try…
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If Health Care Becomes a “Fundamental Right,” Who Pays for It?
By Steve Buckstein The Oregon House of Representatives has voted for HJR 203,…
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Why Health Care Should Not Be Defined as a “Fundamental Right”
By Steve Buckstein The Oregon House of Representatives has voted for HJR 203,…
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Measure 101 Deserves Your No Vote
By Steve Buckstein By now you should have your ballot for the January…
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Don’t Allow the Skimming of Medicaid Funds for Unions
By Aaron Withe and Steve Buckstein Each year, hundreds of millions of dollars…
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Vote NO on Health Care Tax Measure 101
By Steve Buckstein Oregonians will have the opportunity in January to vote No…
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When Is a Health Care Tax Not a Tax?
By Steve Buckstein Oregon state legislators who voted for you to pay higher…
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Health Care Tax Would Hurt Middle Class
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Many Oregonians are now spending as much on health…
Read Blog DetailYou Can Stop New Health Care Taxes
By Steve Buckstein The Oregon Health Authority has finally removed nearly 55,000 people…
Read Blog DetailCascade Policy Institute Endorses Referendum 301 to Stop New Health Care Taxes on Oregonians
August 2, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Steve Buckstein (503) 242-0900 [email protected]…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s New Health Care Taxes Are Unjustifiable
By Lydia White Soon after the Oregon Legislature passed a bill expected to generate $550…
Read Blog DetailStop Health Care Taxes dot com
By Steve Buckstein The Oregon legislature just passed, and the Governor signed, a…
Read Blog Detail“Facing Reality” Report Offers Solutions to Governor Brown’s $1.7 Billion Budget Hole Without Raising Taxes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Steve Buckstein (503) 242-0900 Jeff Kropf (541) 729-6229…
Read Blog DetailOregon Leaders Must Reject ACA’s Medicaid Expansion
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Despite an eight percent increase in general fund revenues,…
Read Blog DetailWhat Would Jefferson Advise Today’s Supreme Court About the Little Sisters of the Poor?
In 1804 an Ursuline nun in New Orleans asked Thomas Jefferson to clarify…
Read Blog DetailThe Jayne Carroll Show Interviews Jared Meyer on Washington’s Betrayal of America’s Young People
Guest host Aaron Stevens interviewed the Manhattan Institute’s Jared Meyer on The Jayne…
Read Blog DetailHow Washington Is Disinheriting American Kids
By Jared Meyer and Kathryn Hickok Is Washington, D.C. disinheriting America’s kids? You…
Read Blog DetailWashington’s War on Millennials
By Jared Meyer Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of…
Read Blog DetailPolicy Picnic – September 16, 2015
Please join us for our monthly Policy Picnic led by Cascade guest speaker Herb Grey…
Read Blog DetailTaxpayers Ultimately Get the Bill for Oregon’s Medicaid Expansion
By Thomas Tullis Thirty states have already undertaken the Medicaid expansion encouraged by…
Read Blog Detail“Right to Try” Is a Good First Step, Should Be Expanded
By Anna Mae Kersey Oregon House Bill 2300 gives terminally ill patients access…
Read Blog DetailPress Release – Oregon Right to Try Bill Unanimously Passes the House and Senate
July 6, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Steve Buckstein 503-242-0900 [email protected] Oregon…
Read Blog DetailPress Release – Statement on the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell Decision
June 25, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Steve Buckstein 503-242-0900 [email protected] Cascade…
Read Blog DetailLooking at ObamaCare, Five Years On
By Sally C. Pipes ObamaCare turned five years old March 23. But don’t…
Read Blog DetailOregon Seniors Deserve Truth in Medicare Reform
By Steve Buckstein and Patrick M. Gleason If Congress doesn’t act by the…
Read Blog DetailAre ObamaCare’s Insurance Subsidies Legal?
Today the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case challenging the…
Read Blog DetailEvent Video – The Man Who Could Bring Down Obamacare
On February 26, 2015 at a co-sponsored event presented by Cascade Policy Institute…
Read Blog DetailThe Man Who Could Bring Down ObamaCare
Would you like to meet the man the media says could bring down…
Read Blog DetailRight to Try Is Right for Oregon: Let terminally ill patients try to save their own lives
If you or someone in your family had a terminal illness, would you…
Read Blog DetailArizonans Gain the “Right to Try” to Save Their Lives
Amid last week’s election excitement, Arizonans overwhelmingly approved their “Right to Try” referendum,…
Read Blog DetailWill the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Subsidies Be ObamaCare’s Downfall?
By Sally C. Pipes The battle over ObamaCare has shifted to the courts….
Read Blog DetailOregon’s Prescription-Only Cold Medicine Law Needs a New Look
In recent years, Cascade Policy Institute has tracked and analyzed the effectiveness of…
Read Blog DetailU.S. Has the Worst Health Care? Not by a Long Shot
Few complaints about the U.S. health care system are as common as the claim that we spend too much on health care and get too little for all that spending in return—especially compared to other industrialized nations.
Read Blog DetailWhat Should Have Happened with Cover Oregon
By now, people around the country know our state’s attempt to create a…
Read Blog DetailHow Jefferson Explained the Constitution to Louisiana Nuns
This week in 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to an Ursuline nun in New…
Read Blog DetailObamaCare Inflates Enrollment—And Premiums
By Sally C. Pipes HealthCare.gov has officially closed and, despite months of technical…
Read Blog DetailCover Oregon: Out of the Frying Pan
*This event is currently sold out. You can add your name to…
Read Blog DetailCover Oregon: Out of the Frying Pan…
On April 25th, after wasting more than $200 million in federal cash, Cover…
Read Blog DetailFour Years of ObamaCare Failures Is Long Enough
By Sally C. Pipes President Obama marked the fourth anniversary of the passage…
Read Blog DetailAs ObamaCare Turns Four, How’s It Working out for You?
The Affordable Care Act turned four years old last Sunday. So how’s it…
Read Blog DetailAs the Affordable Care Act Turns Four, Cascade’s Predictions Were on the Mark
Sunday, March 23, was the fourth anniversary of the passage of the Patient…
Read Blog DetailIn Oregon and Nationally, ObamaCare’s Exchanges Don’t Play Well with the Young
By Sally C. Pipes Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less…
Read Blog DetailIs a Doctor Shortage on the Horizon?
The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is projected to add 30 million more nonelderly…
Read Blog DetailIs Part-Time Work Obama’s New American Dream?
Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported that the Affordable Care Act will…
Read Blog DetailOregon Medicaid Study Doesn’t Love Big Brother
By Dr. Jonathan Witt If a large Oregon study is any indication, the…
Read Blog DetailObamaCare’s Employer Mandate Already Costs Employees
By Sally C. Pipes Some 60 percent of Americans—nearly 160 million people—get insurance…
Read Blog DetailAP: Cover Oregon Is ObamaCare’s “Biggest Failure”
Seven weeks after launch, Oregon’s online health insurance exchange Cover Oregon still hasn’t…
Read Blog DetailObamaCare Unraveling―And It Gets Worse in 2014
By Sally C. Pipes With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling (especially HealthCare.gov, the…
Read Blog DetailCourt Says “No” to Forced Insurance Subsidy
The federal government’s HealthCare.gov website has been nearly useless for a month. Now,…
Read Blog DetailThe ObamaCare Exchanges: Nowhere Near As Competent As the Post Office
By Sally C. Pipes What was the worst product launch in history? New…
Read Blog DetailOctober Chaos for Cover Oregon
Three weeks after launch, Oregon’s online health insurance exchange Cover Oregon hasn’t enrolled…
Read Blog DetailDrug Cartels, Not Cold Medicine Patients, Are the Enemy in Oregon’s Meth War
It seems that despite the best efforts of Oregon policymakers and law enforcement,…
Read Blog DetailSeven Steps to Replace ObamaCare with Something That Works
By Sally C. Pipes Under the Affordable Care Act, state health insurance exchanges…
Read Blog DetailAs the Expense of ObamaCare Sets In, Companies Cut Health Benefits
By Sally C. Pipes Implementation of the Affordable Care Act continues this fall…
Read Blog DetailFor Small Business Owners, The ObamaCare Reality Bites
By Sally C. Pipes More than 40 percent of small businesses have frozen…
Read Blog DetailThe Opportunity to Protect Our Rights and Our Children
By William Newell Medical technology has miraculously saved millions of lives. Our constitutionally…
Read Blog Detail"Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" Book Forum
Please join Cascade Policy Institute for our next book forum featuring John Goodman,…
Read Blog DetailIs Being on Medicaid Better Than Having No Insurance at All?
By Roger Stark, MD, FACS Does having health insurance actually save lives or…
Read Blog DetailThree Years Later, ObamaCare Remains a Troubled Law
By Roger Stark, MD, FACS President Obama signed the federal health care bill,…
Read Blog DetailKilled by Cost Cutting
By Sally C. Pipes British officials confirmed in January that as many as…
Read Blog DetailWanted: More Life with Parents, Not Government Preschool
In his February 12 State of the Union address, President Obama called for…
Read Blog DetailLife, Liberty, and Obama’s Pursuit of Free Birth Control
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the long-awaited “accommodation”…
Read Blog DetailIn 2013, Millions of Americans Face ObamaCare Tax Hikes
By Sally C. Pipes As part of the negotiations over the fiscal cliff,…
Read Blog DetailWomen’s 2012 “Pocketbook Issue”—Free Contraception?
Common sense should intuit that suppressing the healthy operations of a normal human…
Read Blog DetailHospital Apologizes, PDC Repeats the Tragedy
Last Friday, Legacy Emanuel Hospital held a breakfast to apologize to the North…
Read Blog DetailPolicy Judgment on Health Care Law “Is Reserved to the People”
By Jason Mercier “The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional…
Read Blog DetailSupreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of ObamaCare – Not its Efficacy
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that most of the Patient Protection and Affordable…
Read Blog DetailSupreme Court Strikes Down ObamaCare Individual Mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court ObamaCare decision reinforces what British researcher John Spiers told…
Read Blog DetailSupreme Court Strikes Down ObamaCare
The U.S. Supreme Court ObamaCare decision reinforces what British researcher John Spiers told…
Read Blog DetailObamacare: Pain or Prescription for College Students’ Ailing Futures?
By Rebecca Phillips Have you ever heard of someone waiting 18 months to…
Read Blog DetailFederal Health Care Reform: A Two-Year Report Card
By Roger Stark, MD, FACS Major health care reform (Patient Protection and Affordable…
Read Blog DetailFederal Health Care Reform: A Two-Year Report Card
Major health care reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) became law two…
Read Blog DetailSteve Buckstein talks with Mark and Dave about cold medicine report
KEX 1190 radio hosts Mark and Dave interview Cascade founder Steve Buckstein about…
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