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	<title>BuckeyeBlog &#187; Accountable Government</title>
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	<description>Up To The Minute Analysis Of Ohio Public Policy</description>
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		<title>The Unintended Consequences of an Autism Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/28/the-unintended-consequences-of-an-autism-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some in Ohio are pushing for legislators to pass a law mandating insurance companies cover autism therapy. California has such a law, and it has just been dramatically expanded by court order:
In a preliminary ruling, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant found that Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s refusal to pay for a child&#8217;s autism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passenger Rail Just Isn&#8217;t Popular</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/28/passenger-rail-just-isnt-popular/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/28/passenger-rail-just-isnt-popular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passenger rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subsidy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the push to reintroduce passenger rail in Ohio, it is often claimed that passenger rail has strong support from the public. As recent data by the Pew Charitable Trust shows, where passenger rail already exists it isn&#8217;t all that popular:
Forty-one of Amtrak’s 44 routes lost money in 2008 with losses ranging from nearly $5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Who Forget History&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/20/those-who-forget-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you really think the health care proposals being debated in DC will cost less than $1 trillion over ten years, the Wall Street Journal today has some history of other government health care programs that should disabuse you of that notion:
The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that [Medicaid's] first-year costs would be $238 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Budget Problem? Look for the Union Label</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/14/state-budget-problem-look-for-the-union-label/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/14/state-budget-problem-look-for-the-union-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Weekly Standard has a great article about how government employee unions are contributing to state budget problems. It points out the generous compensation government workers receive, courtesy of your tax dollars:
For every $1-an-hour pay increase, noted Dennis Cauchon in USA Today, public employees have gotten $1.17 in new benefits. Private workers have gotten just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Bill Adds to Ohio Budget Woes</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/07/health-care-bill-adds-to-ohio-budget-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/07/health-care-bill-adds-to-ohio-budget-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a Viewpoint I wrote a little while ago, I raised a concern about the burden the health care legislation making its way through Congress would impose on state taxpayers. While health insurance regulation and Medicare are receiving the bulk of the attention in this debate, all the legislation passed by House and Senate committees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Subsidize It, They Will Come</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/23/if-you-subsidize-it-they-will-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/23/if-you-subsidize-it-they-will-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passenger rail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came to Ohio to extol the virtues of passenger rail. I hope he offered something in his talk that was more  insightful than his comments as reported in the Dispatch: &#8220;if you build it, they will come&#8221; and &#8220;people like to ride trains.&#8221;
His platitudes are not only lame but they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Really Think it Won&#8217;t Add to the Deficit?</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/17/you-really-think/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/17/you-really-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus unveiled his health care plan yesterday and one of its main selling points is that it won&#8217;t add to the deficit, according to CBO&#8217;s score for the bill. Most of the Baucus bill&#8217;s costs would be paid for by reducing spending on Medicare. As Peter Suderman over at Reason magazine&#8217;s blog points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overstating the Benefits of Passenger Rail</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/15/overstating-the-benefits-of-passenger-rail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/15/overstating-the-benefits-of-passenger-rail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passenger rail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gongwer News Service($) reported on a press conference by passenger rail advocates yesterday that had this astonishing claim:
Creation of a rail line from Boston to Portland, Maine produced a 220% return on the $100 million in public spending, according to real estate developer Robert Martin.
The project has generated more than $7 billion in construction investment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Doesn&#8217;t Have an Answer?</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/08/who-doesnt-have-an-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/08/who-doesnt-have-an-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Cincinnati yesterday, President Obama made this astounding claim about those who oppose his health care &#8220;reform&#8221; plan: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a question for all those folks: What are you going to do? What&#8217;s your answer? What&#8217;s your solution? And you know what? They don&#8217;t have one.&#8221;
You&#8217;d think the President would do a little research before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Really the Kind of Health Care You Want?</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/02/is-this-really-the-kind-of-health-care-you-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/02/is-this-really-the-kind-of-health-care-you-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountable Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A New York Times article on the liberal push to support President Obama&#8217;s health care &#8220;reform&#8221; mentioned this:
Other people were stoked by personal causes that seemed in some cases only peripheral to a broader societal debate.
“I’m out here if it will help one more kid get medication,” said Johari Ade-Green, 58, of Denver, who was [...]]]></description>
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