Healthcare Solutions Week Highlights Need for Alternatives to Affordable Care Act

By Ellen Carmichael

11/07/2014

The Pelican Institute recently participated in Healthcare Solutions Week, an opportunity for people of all political persuasions (and none at all) to discuss how to properly address the United States’ ongoing healthcare issues. This is an issue we feel most keenly here in Louisiana—with our ranking in most healthcare categories near the worst in the...

TAGS: Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Healthcare Solutions Week, ObamaCare

Something Like a Slur

By Ben Kilpatrick

04/26/2013

Because Bob Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism and is the director of the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs at Louisiana State University, and his accusations center around the issue of racism, I feel compelled to respond to his claims.

TAGS: Affordable Care Act, Bobby Jindal, journalism, LSU, Medicaid, Robert Mann

The Trouble with Medicaid

By Ben Kilpatrick

04/24/2013

Louisiana legislators may not have the power to fix what is wrong with the federal welfare state. But they can refuse to expand it in their own backyards.

TAGS: Affordable Care Act, Bobby Jindal, Health Care, Louisiana, Louisiana Legislature, Medicaid, Medicaid expansion, ObamaCare

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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