Opinion
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FDA’s Pediatric Rule Hurts Public Health
Opinion -A physicians' association and two public interest groups filed suit in federal court, challenging the validity of the Food and Drug Administration's "Pediatric Rule. -
Fee-for-service Health Care Makes a Comeback
Opinion -Remember when you could choose to go to any doctor, pay a reasonable fee for your medical service, and not worry about co-pays, deductibles, and some distant stranger authorizing or denying the care prescribed by your physician? -
Market-based Reforms Get Post-Election Boost
Opinion -As the Clinton administration departed Washington and George W. Bush moved in, health care reform measures attracted some much-needed public policy attention. -
Vermont Suffers Under Health Insurance Illusion
Opinion -Calvin Coolidge once said, “Laws do not make reforms, reforms make laws. We cannot look to government. We must look to ourselves.” He easily could have been talking about health care reform in Vermont. -
Why We Need Market-based Health Care Reform: Part 1 of 2
Opinion -The United States does not have a properly functioning market for health care, and the financing system needs to be reformed. The market is distorted by a tax policy that is mistargeted, miscalibrated, and open-ended. -
FDA loosens rules on labeling, claims by dietary supplements
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule to address the labeling and marketing of dietary supplements. Many health advocates are distressed about some of its content. -
Medicare Reform Deja Vu?
Opinion -“The votes tell the story. On June 2, 1988, the House passed the Catastrophic Health Care Act 328-72. On Wednesday [October 4, 1989], the House voted to repeal it 360-66. Rep.