Kentucky Medicaid is on an unsustainable path. Its expansive spending growth over the past 25 years has put increased pressure on state and federal budgets. Medicaid has failed to fulfill the goal of improved health for most of its recipients. The recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) did not enact any fundamental reforms in Medicaid…
State workers at politically connected private agencies eligible for taxpayer-funded retirement, health care benefits For Immediate Release: Tuesday, Oct.11, 2011 Contact: Jim Waters at 270-782-2140 (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – A new Bluegrass Institute policy brief shows that hundreds of workers at a multitude of agencies – including some private organizations – are feeding at Kentucky’s taxpayer-funded…
Government spending is out of control. Kentuckians are faced with a government that indiscriminately wastes taxpayer money with little thought as to where that money comes from. The only wealth government has is what it takes by force from productive citizens. Resources taken from the private sector for state use only serve to inhibit business…
… which makes this video about 30 minutes out of date. It’s instructive, nonetheless. This downgrade effectively means the price of most state and local public sector borrowing just went up.
Recently the Bluegrass Institute published “An Unsustainable Path: The Past and Future of Kentucky Medicaid Spending“. The video below is from the release of the report. Author John Garen provides an overview of his findings.
Jim Waters of the Bluegrass Institute took part in a panel discussion about United States’ debt problems on Monday night’s ‘Kentucky Tonight’. You can watch the full discussion here.
Jim Waters, vice president of policy and communications for the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank, addresses the debt-ceiling controversy Monday on KET’s Kentucky Tonight at 8 p.m. (EDT) Click here to watch last week’s show on the issue. Panelists included Kathy Gornik, chairman of the Bluegrass Institute board of directors. Waters will be joined…
Bluegrass Institute board chair Kathy Gornik took part in a panel discussion about the United States’ debt on KET’s Kentucky Tonight. Watch the full broadcast.
Kathy Gornik, president of Lexington-based THIEL Loudspeakers and chairman of the Bluegrass Institute Board of Directors, addresses the debt-ceiling controversy Monday on KET’s Kentucky Tonight at 8 p.m. (EDT) Gornik, who will talk about the possible impact of raising the debt ceiling on her business, will be joined on the program by Andy Hightower, executive…
Fifteen years and billions of dollars later, legislation has been proposed that would “eliminate agriculture direct payments subsidies completely and permanently.” When these direct payments to farmers began in 1996, they were meant “to serve as a temporary transitional handout to farmers as they moved in a more market-oriented direction.” But good intentions do not…