The recent Paris climate talks became frenzied, as delegates desperately tried to salvage an agreement beyond empty promises to do something sometime about what President Obama insists is the gravest threat to our planet, national security and future generations. Determined for once to lead from upfront, he took a 500-person...
The most recent financial numbers posted on the Virginia Hospital information website show that hospitals overall are doing very well. The combined profit of the reporting hospitals was $1.9 billion, an 8.6 percent increase year-over-year — $150 million more than a year earlier.
... The federal Certificate of Public Need law was originally intended to control costs by requiring State Health Commissioners to limit the supply of health care. But the law has not succeeded. The federal law was repealed in 1987, and states have been repealing their laws as well. Virginia should be...
Momentum is building for the Virginia General Assembly to pass long-overdue changes to the Certificate of Public Need (COPN) law. Under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, 49 states implemented COPN laws in order to receive federal funding. This law was originally intended to control costs by requiring...
At its peak in the 1980s, Basset Furniture Industries employed roughly 9,000 people, with the largest concentration in Martinsville and Henry County. One of the largest furniture manufacturers in the world, the company provided jobs not only for machinists and assembly workers on the factory floor, as one would find...
There is encouraging news about current and proposed express toll lanes (Editor’s note: these are called HOT lanes – High Occupancy Toll lanes — here in Virginia) projects in California, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington State. In California, Gov. Jerry Brown last month signed AB 194, which authorizes Caltrans and...
“The Sixth Circuit’s order to suspend nationwide the implementation of the Obama administration’s final WOTUS [Waters of the U.S.] rule is a victory for all states, local governments, farmers, ranchers, and landowners,” says U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R, Okla. Indeed, all landowners have many entities to thank, including state Attorneys...
The Obama Administration has unleashed some hugely destructive policies over the past few years. Some, like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, required mostly Democrat congressional connivance. But one of the most destructive, the Clean Power Plan (CPP), was devised by the White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in league with radical...
When the Thomas Jefferson institute published a study, How are Virginia’s Hospitals Doing Today — a Review of Hospital Finances, using information published on the Virginia Hospital Information website, it undercut the argument that hospitals need Medicaid expansion to survive. Immediately, the Virginia Hospital Association put its “spin team” to...
Earlier this week, the Thomas Jefferson Institute published a study, “How are Virginia’s Hospitals Doing Today – A Review of Hospital Finances,” showing a detailed listing of the profits and losses and the net worth of the 154 hospitals listed on the Virginia Hospital Information website (HERE) Immediately the Virginia Hospital Association (VHA) put its “spin team” to work trying to...
