The Great Experiment peels back the heated rhetoric over the federal health care law and provides a serious examination of how the relationship between states and the federal government impacts health care policy decisions. The book is about much more than examining a single state experiment, or the immediate questions that may arise during a presidential campaign. Make no mistake about it: The Great Experiment lays out a market-oriented blueprint for the next decade - and seeks to do it with the wisdom and balance that come from observing and analyzing a variety of state and federal policy experiences.

GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STATES, THE FEDS, AND YOUR HEALTHCARE

Joshua Archambault, James Capretta, Amy Lischko, Tom Miller, Jennifer Heldt Powell & Md Jeffrey S. Flier & Jim Stergios

Pioneer Institute

2017. The year in which America takes a U-Turn on health care policy. The new Congress and president promise to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. How will they do it? And after reversing course, what direction will health care take? In articulating answers, U-Turn does not avoid the hard questions. What are workable solutions that over the needed flexibility and respect our federalist government structure? What solutions meet key challenges: the runaway cost of care, questions about quality of care, access to medical services for all residents, and the consensus that has emerged today to ensure coverage for those with pre-existing conditions? How can the United States grapple with exploding Medicaid and Medicare costs?

U-Turn: America’s Return To State Healthcare Solutions

Tom Miller

James Capretta

Jim Stergios

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Over two decades ago, Massachusetts introduced its first charter public schools, planting seeds that would grow some of the highest performing public schools in the nation. No one could have known then how successful this experiment in education reform would be-nor how controversial. This volume draws on data and interviews with Massachusetts education policymakers and school leaders to trace the history of charter schools and document the stellar academic outcomes that they help students achieve.

The Fight for the Best Charter Schools in the Nation Paperback

Education & Teaching

Cara Stillings Candal

Schools & Teaching

At a time when Catholic secondary schools are closing all across the country, this book, edited by Cara Stillings Candal and Chris Sinacola, reviews the successes of this education model in Massachusetts, and offers recommendations to help these schools increase student enrollment. It includes chapters from a range of renowned experts; a foreword by George Weigel, author of an international bestselling two-part biography of Pope St. John Paul II; and an introduction from former Ambassadors to the Holy See Raymond Flynn and Mary Ann Glendon. The book contends that Catholic schools in Massachusetts must focus on the characteristics that make them academically successful and distinguish them from traditional public schools, but must also seek new models and governance structures that will help them achieve financial sustainability. At the same time, barriers to public support of the schools should be eliminated. Catholic schools in Massachusetts deliver high test scores, high college attendance and graduation rates. The majority of elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Boston are in urban areas and disproportionately serve poor and minority families. Parents of all faiths and beliefs are also drawn to the unrelenting focus on achievement, classic liberal arts education, discipline and values that are part of a Catholic education. Catholic educators are developing new models to address these challenges, and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue was an important step toward invalidating so-called Blaine Amendments to the constitutions of Massachusetts and many other states that prohibit public money from flowing to religious schools parents. Among its many recommendations, the book includes a proposal for a tax credit scholarship program for Massachusetts that would likely have been impermissible prior to Espinoza.Reviews: “Pioneer’s book A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts highlights why K–12 Catholic education is the crown jewel in a state long known for academic excellence. This is a must read for those who care about the future of Catholic schools in the Commonwealth, while also offering key lessons for policy makers across the country.” - GRACE COTTER REGAN, PRESIDENT, BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL“For over two millennia, the Church’s sacred mission has kept alive the West’s precious heritage and culture, while serving as a spiritual beacon to the world. As Pioneer Institute’s new book, A Vision of Hope, makes clear, K–12 Catholic schooling helps lead the young toward these ideals, which are needed now more than ever.” - ANTHONY ESOLEN, PROFESSOR AND WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, MAGDALEN COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS“Pioneer Institute has done a great service by bringing together a range of leading thinkers on the vital role Catholic schools play in forming the next generation: shaping the whole human person through moral, theological, and philosophical instruction. This is an important book for the future of K–12 Catholic education and religious liberty.” - MONTSE ALVARADO, VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY“Catholic schools play an enormously important role in K–12 education in America, especially in the inner city. Pioneer Institute’s new book, A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts, shines a light on the great work Catholic schools do, the innovations they’ve made in the last 25 years, and the need to support them through school choice legislation.” - G.R. KEARNEY, AUTHOR OF MORE THAN A DREAM: THE CRISTO REY STORY: HOW ONE SCHOOL’S VISION IS CHANGING THE WORLD

A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts

Religion & Spirituality

BEDRICK, JASON

Candal, Cara

Ardon, Ken

Chapman, Cornelius

Donovan, William

Religious Studies

BACK TO TAXACHUSETTS? represents the distillation of 24 studies on the impacts of the income tax proposal before Massachusetts voters this November. The book reviews the experience of states imposing similar taxes and demonstrates how the tax will devastate Massachusetts’ economic competitiveness and harm retirees, homeowners and small businesses. It reveals the false narratives advanced by the tax’s proponents who portray it as affecting a small number of “millionaires,” funding designated purposes, and remedying Massachusetts’ “regressive” tax regime. Finally, it examines the tax’s impact in a post-pandemic economy, where companies and employees are mobile, states compete for telecommuters, and federal tax policies continue to cap state and local tax deductibility.

Back to Taxachusetts?: How the proposed constitutional tax amendment would upend one of the best economies in the nation.

Business & Money

Sullivan, Gregory

Day, Liam

Mikula, Andrew

Economics

While the U.S. has had mixed educational results in recent decades, Massachusetts has defied national trends to emerge as a leader in educational achievement and innovation. Nowhere is that seen more clearly than in career and technical education. Pioneer Institute's Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts's National Model Vocational-Technical Schools explains how the Bay State has combined industrial heritage, educational excellence, and wise governance to forge a voc-tech system that is second to none. It offers a blueprint for how communities nationwide can leverage human capital and local and regional strengths to meet the needs and challenges of schools and workplaces in the twenty-first century.

Hands-On Achievement: Massachusetts’s National Model Vocational-Technical Schools

Sinacola, Chris

Ferreira, David J.

Higher & Continuing Education

For the first time in history Americans face the prospect of a unified set of national standards for K-12 education. While this goal sounds reasonable, and Common Core has been presented as a state-led effort, it is anything but. This book analyzes Common Core from the standpoint of its deleterious effects on curriculum-language arts, mathematics, history, and more-as well as its questionable legality, its roots in the aggressive spending of a few wealthy donors, its often-underestimated costs, and the untold damage it will wreak on American higher education. At a time when more and more people are questioning the wisdom of federally-mandated one-size-fits-all solutions, Drilling through the Core offers well-considered arguments for stopping Common Core in its tracks.

Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for America (2015-09-28)

Despite its adoption in the U.K., Canada, and Australian, the use of Quality-Adjusted Life Year metric has generated controversy elsewhere. The U.S. and Germany have both rejected the standard's use, and one major health outcomes study of the 27 European health systems concluded that "QALY assessment for health decision making should be abandoned." "Rationing Medicine" examines why the QALY cost-effectiveness methodology poses a threat to older American, including potentially denying seniors access to life-saving treatments, and makes the case that Congress should move swiftly to outlaw its use.

Rationing Medicine: Threats from European Cost-Effectiveness Models to America's Seniors and other Vulnerable Populations

Medical Books

Smith, Dr. William

Administration & Medicine Economics

Restoring the City on a Hill: U.S. History & Civics in America's Schools

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