Less Choice, Higher Costs for Health Care

Posted on Mar 22, 2010 in Health Care, Research Maine’s Experience Should Give Connecticut Pause in Pursuing Politicized Health Insurance Rate Approval Process SB 194 – An Act Concerning Rate Approvals For Individual Health Insurance Policies purports to be responding to real concerns about the impact of health insurance premium increases. However, it is a flawed response, as best illustrated by Maine’s experience, which has a...
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TweetCT Connects Leaders to Connecticut

Posted on Mar 21, 2010 in Press HARTFORD –The Yankee Institute for Public Policy unveiled its TweetCT Project today, their latest effort to improve transparency and communication among Connecticut’s elected officials. The tool is available online at www.TweetCT.org. “Transparency opens government to everyone,” said Heath W. Fahle, the Yankee Institute’s Policy Director. “This new website gives Connecticut’s...
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Education Model Policy Manual

Posted on Mar 3, 2010 in Education, Research HARTFORD – Following up their 2009 piece “How to Reduce Property Taxes with a Citizens Audit Committee“, Dr. Lewis Andrews and Dr. Armand A. Fusco have published a compendium of model school board policies from across the nation that help save school districts money. Originally published in March 2010, this tool is a valuable resource for Citizens Audit Committees focused on...
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Yankee Honored for Groundbreaking Research

Posted on Mar 1, 2010 in Press Yankee Institute’s program “The Care and Feeding of Connecticut’s Congressmen” has taxpayers grumbling all across Connecticut as they learn about how their Members of Congress spend their hard-earned tax dollars. The project posted every line item of spending in the Connecticut delegation’s personal congressional offices and has been a popular request from rank-and-file conservatives...
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Obamacare for CT to Bust Budget

Posted on Mar 1, 2010 in Health Care, Research HARTFORD – The Connecticut version of Obamacare called SustiNet could add more than $2 billion in new annual spending to the state budget with no means to pay for it, a new study by the Yankee Institute finds. “Dr. SustiNet’s Prescription for Big Government Healthcare” rings the alarm about how much the ambitious government-driven heath care plan passed over Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s veto in...
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