Medicaid Expansion: Even Worse Than You Thought

By Ben Kilpatrick

05/06/2013

Not only does Medicaid place an unreasonable burden on taxpayers, it fails to deliver a significant health benefit to the poor.

TAGS: GAO, Heritage Foundation, Louisiana Legislature, Louisiana State Medical Society, Medicaid expansion, ObamaCare, President Obama, Welfare

Evidence Mounts: Physicians Leaving Private Practice for Hospitals

By Fergus Hodgson

01/31/2011

Louisiana’s medical society reports doubling of hospital employment in four years, and as the profession ages fewer are set to work in private practice. "This signals the further decline in the free practice of medicine," says Dr. Thomas Kendall Sr., a South Carolina spokesman for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

TAGS: American Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society, Merrit Hawkins, ObamaCare, Pacific Research Institute

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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