Healthcare, School Choice and Ballot Initiatives
Health care officials in Britain experiment with situating family health clinics in supermarkets.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to protect homeschool families after a state court ruled that parents must have official education credentials to teach their own children.
Term limits activist Paul Jacob is indicited on charges related to a citizen ballot initiative.
Issues in the News
1. HEALTH
Health care officials in Britain experiment with situating family health clinics in supermarkets.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Doug Bandow on how the U.S. can learn from this example:
“Although Great Britain is not normally where one would think to look for ideas on health care reform, the government is going to experiment by installing doctors in J. Sainsbury, a leading supermarket. … The National Health Service remains a highly flawed program, sacrificing patient choice to government control. But the willingness of the Brown government to consider creative reforms like supermarket docs should encourage American politicians to look for answers in private entrepreneurship rather than public mandates.”
2. EDUCATION
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vows to protect homeschool families after a state court ruled that parents must have official education credentials to teach their own children.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how the anti-homeschool movement is spreading:
“Washington, D.C. spends more per student in its public schools than does any state, for worse results in educational achievement than that of any state. D.C. schools are literally falling apart from neglect due to administrative incompetence. But rather than fixing its rotten schools, which have alienated many parents and students, Washington, D.C. is now preparing to crack down on home schoolers to force them back into the schools.”
3. LEGAL
Term limits activist Paul Jacob is indicited on charges related to a citizen ballot initiative.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Doug Bandow on why the charges are a travesty:
“My friend Paul Jacob, the long-time term limits activist and head of the Citizens in Charge Foundation, continues to face charges in Oklahoma for aiding local citizens in attempting to place a tax limitation measure on the ballot. The indictment is pure politics, filed by the Democratic state attorney general against Jacob and two others. The case is an outrage and has led to creation of the Free Paul Jacob website. He could use the support of freedom-lovers everywhere.”
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