Opinion
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Survivor: The New Flu Season
Opinion -One way to be a flu survivor is to start by choosing a healthy lifestyle. -
The Value of Drugs
Opinion -Just as the price of a Rolex watch is not solely determined by the cost of its materials, the price of a prescription drug is not simply the cost of its ingredients. -
Ties That Make You Buggy
Opinion -Not only may your doctor’s tie be a frightful gift from a friend or well-meaning relative, it may also be a hazard to your health. Neckties have been found to carry infectious bacteria. -
Walk the Talk
Opinion -Is the most important benefit of exercising to lose weight? Improve heart functions? Look your best? Build strong bones? Reduce stress? This may not be a question on “Double Jeopardy,” but it’s one some of us don’t answer correctly. -
Statement by The Heartland Institute in Response to the Recent Report to Congress by the Health and Human Services Drug Importation Task Force
Opinion -(Chicago, IL) On December 21, a task force assembled by the Department of Health and Human Services released recommendations on how Congress should deal with the increasing popularity of importing prescription drugs from foreign countries, including -
New Prescription Drug Web Site Could Mislead Consumers
Opinion -A new Web site purporting to "help consumers and their doctors identify the most effective and affordable medicines" is marred by a pro-generics agenda and a bias against newer and more expensive drugs. -
Banning Competition Won’t Get Us Better Hospitals
Opinion -Something very odd is happening in the hospital industry. A relatively new kind of hospital, called the specialty hospital, is emerging that seems to be more efficient and produce better health outcomes than existing general hospitals. -
New Prescription Drug Web Site Could Mislead Consumers
Opinion -(Chicago, IL) On December 9, Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, launched a new Web site, www.CRBestBuyDrugs. -
New Hampshire Moves to Repair State’s Health Care Market
Opinion -In the early 1990s, New Hampshire Gov. -
Vaccine Shortage Is Bad Omen
Opinion -The Health and Human Services (HHS) health care bureaucracy has, for the third time in five years, demonstrated itself incapable of protecting the public health by delivering an inadequate supply of flu vaccine. -
Research and Innovation Can Address Health Care Challenges, Experts Say
Opinion -Medical research and innovative service ideas are already helping to alleviate health care problems caused by the aging of the American population and rising prices, according to a panel of experts who gathered in Washington just before the November -
Need for Long-Term Care Policies Grows Urgent
Opinion -Probably like many others in his age group, a 64-year-old professor at a small state university recently contemplated retirement, which would begin for him next year. -
Congress Rejects Efforts to Limit HSAs
Opinion -In the days preceding the current, lame duck session of Congress, two attempts to prohibit funding for or otherwise restrict Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP) failed in the U.S. -
Merck’s Vioxx Withdrawal Illustrates Power of Regulation by Trial Lawyers
Opinion -Merck & Co. withdrew the popular drug Vioxx from the market in September, after data from a clinical trial supported claims the medication was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. -
Adult Stem Cells Producing Miracle Treatments
Opinion -Former President Bill Clinton may be looking at a 2005 calendar and breathing a sigh of relief that he'll be ringing in the new year with a healthy ticker. After all, he survived heart bypass surgery that now seems positively medieval. -
Dead Moose on the Table in Kentucky
Opinion -Tom Underwood of the National Federation of Independent Business argues "there's a dead moose on the table" that no one in Kentucky wants to deal with. -
A Brief History of Health Saving Accounts
Opinion -As of January 2004, 250 million non-elderly Americans have access to tax-deductible health savings accounts (HSAs). Individuals can now self-insure for some of their medical needs and manage more of their own health care dollars. -
Fearing Pharma: The Crusade to Kill Drug Development
Opinion -Dr. Marcia Angell does not like pharmaceutical companies. -
Specialty Hospitals Criticized by Competitors
Opinion -The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 included an 18-month moratorium on the development of new physician- and investor-owned surgical facilities. -
Analysis: Politicians Using Flawed Data on Uninsured Population
Opinion -Prior to the November election, presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) wrote in an October essay for Health Insurance Underwriter magazine, "Roughly 45 million American have no health insurance at all." Ever since the U.S. -
Need, Not Greed, Is What’s Causing High Prices for Prescription Drugs
Opinion -Ten years ago, the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca launched what was known inside the company as the Shark Fin Project. -
Post-Election Conference to Discuss Future of Consumer-Directed Health Care
Opinion -A conference taking place in Washington, DC from November 29 to December 1, 2004, will bring together major stakeholders in the consumer-driven health care industry. -
Specialty Surgical Hospitals: Better Health Care through Innovation
Opinion -With the 2004 campaign season now closed, we can reflect on how the politicians just didn’t realize--or wouldn’t admit--that government could do much to improve health care in the U.S. -
Soda Pop Media Feeding Frenzy
Opinion -An article in the August 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Weight Gain, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Young and Middle-Aged Women," adds yet another chapter to the feeding frenzy that
