Should Public Service Commissions Set Hospital Prices
John A. Baden February 23, 2017
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Should Public Service Commissions Set Hospital Prices

Forward by John Baden I am pleased to post Montana Public Service Commissioner Roger Koopman’s excellent column as a FREE Insight. He discusses the proposal to have PSCs assigned responsibility for controlling hospital costs (Montana House Bill 395). The proposal to do this might be well intended but it surely is a remarkably naive and […]

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John A. Baden February 8, 2017
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Today’s Political Economy of Federal Lands

The federal government owns over one quarter of America’s land, some 28%. West of the Mississippi the proportion increases to roughly one half. In Utah it’s 70%, Nevada 85%, and California over 45%. In marked contrast federal holdings in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa average one percent. That’s 1.0%. Why the difference? Mainly because the land […]

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