Opinion
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Midwives Progress Toward Licensure in Illinois
Opinion -By this fall, expectant mothers in Illinois may no longer be forced to leave the state or hide from authorities in order to deliver their babies at home. -
Markets Are the Answer to Health Care Problems
Opinion -Free markets have created prosperity and progress worldwide. The freer a country's economy, the more prosperous it becomes. Goods and services become cheaper and better. -
Medicare, Medicaid Underpayments Raise Insurance Rates
Opinion -A study released in June by the California Foundation for Commerce and Education (CFCE) suggests a substantial factor driving up private health care costs is government underpayments to hospitals in the Medicare and Medi-Cal programs. -
Clarian Health Introduces Online Cost Comparisons in Indiana
Opinion -In an effort to provide consumers with up-to-the-minute information on the cost of health care procedures, Clarian Health became the latest insurance provider in Indiana to provide dot-com cost comparisons for consumers, launching the online Clarian -
Reforms to Avoid
Opinion -This is the season for health insurance reform, and that's dangerous. The odds of doing something bad are much higher than the chances of doing something good. -
Relaxed Regulation Fuels Dramatic Growth in HSAs
Opinion -The weather isn't the only thing heating up: Health insurance accounts are on fire. -
How to Cover the Kids
Opinion -Who could be against health insurance for children? People who want government to run the whole health care system are counting on there not being very many. -
Clarifying Our Health Care Options
Opinion -Crisis of Abundance--Rethinking How We Pay For Health Care Arnold Kling Washington, DC: Cato Press, 2006 110 pages, hardcover, ISBN 1930865899, $16.95 Arnold Kling is a lucid writer and down-to-earth Ph.D. -
Alzheimer’s Disease Could Cost Trillions: Study
Opinion -A study released in mid-May is the first to quantify the dollar value of longevity, productivity, and other issues for Alzheimer's patients. -
Conn. Passes Controversial Law Mandating Emergency Contraception
Opinion -Deb Heinrich was 18 when an acquaintance raped her. -
DDT Is Urgently Needed to Prevent Malaria, Activists Say
Opinion -May 27 marked the 100th birthday of Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, a book that significantly influenced the modern environmental movement. -
Experts Warn Against Socialized Health Care
Opinion -A panel convened in Minnesota by a financial consulting service on June 14 called universal health insurance coverage "an economic and moral imperative. -
Florida Law Aims to Curb Childhood Obesity
Opinion -Under a law signed by Gov. Charlie Crist (R) on May 17, Florida elementary schoolchildren will participate in 150 minutes of physical education each week. The law also encourages Florida district school boards to provide 226 minutes of P.E. -
Gardasil’s Dangers, Limitations Are Reported
Opinion -Gardasil, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that several state legislatures are considering mandating girls must receive to attend school, may be more dangerous than consumers have been led to believe, a public-interest group reported in late May. -
How Can We Find the Optimum Regulation for Prescription Drugs?
Opinion -The following is an excerpt from the booklet More Choices, Better Health: Free to Choose Experimental Drugs, by Bartley J. Madden--the third in a several-part series. The complete booklet is also available online at http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm? -
Illinois All Kids Plan Attracts Immigrants
Opinion -Nobody knows exactly how much health care for the children of illegal immigrants costs Illinois taxpayers, but some say it's too much. -
Illinois Seeks to Regulate Retail Clinics
Opinion -As low-cost, convenient retail health clinics grow increasingly popular nationwide, a political backlash against them is gaining momentum. -
Indiana State Fair Bans Trans Fat
Opinion -Indiana State Fair officials announced on June 26 that all food vendors at this year's fair must eliminate trans fat cooking oils from their deep fryers--a first for any such fair nationwide. -
Retail Clinics Expanding Nationwide
Opinion -One of the leading operators of retail health clinics nationwide, MedBasics, announced on May 22 an agreement with USA Drug to open five additional retail clinics in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee by the end of this year. -
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‘Sick and Sicker’ to Counter Michael Moore Film
Opinion -If you go to see Michael Moore's new film, Sicko, you will probably leave the theater wondering why nobody ever presents the other side of the story. -
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Heritage Luncheon Offers Alternatives to SCHIP Expansion
Opinion -The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) may stray from its original purpose of aiding poor children and move one step closer to creating a socialistic health care system if a proposed funding increase takes place, speakers said at a July 13 -
The Hijacking of Children’s Health
Opinion -Like pirates lurking on the high seas looking for victims, politicians probably wear their best buccaneer smirks whenever a new program to help children becomes accepted into law.
