Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal providing a succinct critique of the Democrats’ health care plan and offering recommendations for a more market-oriented approach. Here are the concepts for reform he endorses:

Consumer choice guided by transparency - an integrated disease-management system.

Consumers’ financially invested in better health decisions.
Medical lawsuit reform to reduce need for costly defensive medicine.

Insurance reform - for portability, with reinsurance, high-risk pools, and other mechanisms.

Pooling for small businesses, the…

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The automakers have come back for more taxpayer money, which is exactly what we warned would happen when the first bailout was granted last year. The restructuring plans merely represent an attempt to acheive the results of bankruptcy, with the taxpayer picking up the costs. What is needed is not more taxpayer money, but a way to make US automakers competitive again. As I said in my recent Detroit News piece, we can do that through a simple, cost-free, program that will…

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Here’s what the auto companies really need - a reduction in the regulatory burden placed on them by Congress. These burdens have placed Detroit at a competitive disadvantage because a lot of them are aimed at eliminating the sort of vehicles that Detroit has proved adept at designing and marketing.

1. Repeal the CAFE requirements. They restrict consumer choice by insisting that fuel economy take precedence over safety, and impose restrictions on design that reduce the competitive advantage of Detroit automakers.…

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