Opinion
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New Surveys Raise Questions About Uninsured Children
Opinion -A recent report on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), issued by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, has people wondering whether a reported enrollment decline in late 2003 is a harbinger or statistical blip. -
October 2004 Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -SCHOOL CHOICE IN THE NEWS A Matter of Consistency "If no public dollars can be used to support religious institutions, voucher opponents essentially are saying that your house of worship should not be given police, fire, or EMS protection. -
Privatization Produces Gains in Philadelphia
Opinion -Competition between public and privately managed schools in Philadelphia over the past two years has allowed all public school students to benefit from best practices and has led to overall achievement gains for Philadelphia students that are -
RWJF Report Reaches Wrong Conclusion on Insurance Market Reform
Opinion -In June 2004, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) issued "Expanding the Individual Health Insurance Market: Lessons from the State Reforms of the 1990s," written by Beth C. Fuchs of the consulting firm Health Policy Alternatives, Inc. -
Scientific Evidence Puts the Lie to Concerns Over Genetically Modified Food
Opinion -(Author's note: This commentary relies heavily on the scholarship of Henry I. -
Specialty Surgical Hospitals Deliver Quality Care and Comfort
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. -
New Coalition President Lee Walker Joins Editorial Board of Chicago Defender
Opinion -(Chicago, IL) Lee Walker, president of The New Coalition for Economic & Social Change, has been named a contributing editor of the Chicago Defender, the country’s only black daily newspaper. -
CTA: Unsustainable Transit
Opinion -Anti-car environmentalist groups regularly denounce the automobile-based urban mobility system that prevails in Western Europe and North America. Among other complaints, they say automobility is "unsustainable. -
Specialty Surgical Hospitals: Part of the Solution
Opinion -A distinguishing feature of the U.S. health care system is that it welcomes innovation. -
California’s Iron Grip on Telecom
Opinion -Many believe that “as California goes, so goes the nation.” If that bit of popular wisdom is true, dark days await the nation’s telecom sector. The problem stems from the iron grip of regulators on telecom providers. -
Copyrights and Copywrongs
Opinion -Since the advent of Napster, forces inside the music, video, and book industries have fought to ensure that the value of copyrighted works is not diluted by burgeoning technologies. -
How Eight States Destroyed Their Individual Insurance Markets
Opinion -Since February of this year, Health Care News has featured a series of monthly case studies documenting how community rating and guaranteed issue mandates have destroyed the individual health insurance markets in eight states. -
Regulation, Competition, and Universal Service in the IP Era
Opinion -An August 25 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Phone Industry Faces Upheaval As Ways of Calling Change Fast,” analyzed the effect new technologies are having on the way telecommunications services are delivered, priced, and regulated. -
Happy Birthday, Internet!
Opinion -Here’s to breaking out the cake and the streamers! On September 2 the Internet turned 35. It was on that date in 1969 that computer scientists experimented with using a direct cable connection for computers to exchange data. -
State Legislators Agree on Reform
Opinion -In July, the two largest membership organizations for state elected officials in the U.S. -
New Coalition President, Lee Walker, to Make National Television Appearance on Up Front With Jesse Jackson September 18th
Opinion -On Saturday, September 18, 2004, Lee Walker will appear as a guest on "Up Front With Jesse Jackson", a weekly television show reaching 35 million American households on The Word Network. -
Government Takeover of Health Care Would Make Matters Worse
Opinion -Dear Editor: The Las Vegas Review-Journal has it right when it endorses private health care. Critics of the U.S. -
Extremist Environmental Groups Take Cheap Shot at Bush Administration on Eve of Election
Opinion -(September 10, 2004) A coalition of extremist environmental groups announced this morning that it has filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration for failing to issue permits to five coal-burning power plants in the Chicagoland area. -
Health Care News Is Very Enlightening
Opinion -I just got the September 2004 issue of Health Care News. The front page regarding corruption and shakedowns in the Illinois government says it all. -
Please Say It Isn’t So, National Geographic
Opinion -Like most young people growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, I depended on National Geographic to satisfy my curiosity of the world around me. It was a major reason why I chose a career in science. -
Federal Highway Bill Still in Limbo
Opinion -Throughout the summer, 75 U.S. House and Senate conferees--the largest conference committee in federal government history--have been working feverishly to hammer out a new, six-year federal transportation spending plan. -
Blacks Want Affirmative Opportunity
Opinion -Dear Editor: Dan Seligman (“Quota? What’s That?” September 6) argues “you are expected to select on merit but also produce some neat racial balance in the hiring or admission pool. Your employer, that is, wants to have both ways. How do you cope? -
Census Overstates Uninsured by 15 Million
Opinion -New Census data released on August 26 reveal 243.3 million Americans were covered by health insurance in 2003, up 1 million from the previous year’s figures. The number of people with health insurance has increased steadily for the past 15 years: The U.S. -
AIDS Drugs: Is Patent the Obstacle?
Opinion -The 15th International AIDS Conference was held July 11-16 in Bangkok, Thailand.