Opinion
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HIV Aid to Africa Will Encounter Obstacles
Opinion -HIV/AIDS is mostly a tragedy of the developing world. Forty-two million people are infected with HIV, of which only 1.6 million are in North America, Western Europe, Australia, or New Zealand. -
Managed Care Planned for Georgia Medicaid
Opinion -Georgia state lawmakers have begun reviewing proposals for a major overhaul of the state Medicaid program, seeking to control costs while continuing to provide health care coverage for roughly 1.2 million poor, elderly, and disabled citizens. -
Medicare Conferees Agree on Some Basics
Opinion -Members of the conference committee charged with reconciling the House and Senate versions of Medicare reform legislation have reached agreement on some relatively uncontroversial and basic provisions. -
09/2003 Galen Report
Opinion -President George W. Bush has weighed in on reimportation of drugs, calling the initiative “dangerous” because it “would create serious drug safety problems ... -
Drawing Lessons from East Coasters’ Wind Farm Objections
Opinion -For decades, Easterners have been lobbying for federal laws that impose draconian reductions in emissions from electric utilities in the Midwest. Never mind that oil, coal, nuclear, and natural gas are abundant and cheap. -
NEA’s ‘Technical Amendments’ Would Gut No Child Left Behind
Opinion -At a time when the nation is prosecuting its war on terrorism across four continents and chasing down deadly remnants of Iraqi armies, the National Education Association has chosen to battle against “federal requirements to make significant decisions -
States Are Providing More Choice Options
Opinion -Asking the questions is easy: How is school choice progressing? Overall? By state? Within a state? By type of program? Where do we have vouchers? Individual tax credits? Corporate tax credits? Charter schools? Who’s involved in my state? -
Push for Accountability Is Changing Public Education
Opinion -During the three days of the Education Industry Association’s annual conference, EDVentures 2003, the unmistakable mood of the almost 400 business representatives and educators who attended was one of optimism for the prospects of the entrepreneurial -
Edwards Seeks Mandatory Coverage
Opinion -Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) unveiled on July 28 a $53 billion health care reform plan he says will provide health coverage for uninsured U.S. residents. -
Investigative Report: Overcharging the Uninsured–Part 1
Opinion -There once was a time, not that long ago, when the U.S. health care system was geared to help the poor and uninsured. Today, it is geared to dramatically overcharge them. -
CDHCC Announces Fall Program for Nashville
Opinion -On November 10-12, 2003, The Emergent Group will convene health care executives and senior decision makers from the employer community to discuss the health care consumer phenomenon and the future of health care delivery at the Consumer Directed Health -
Did Environmental Regulations Cause Space Shuttle Tragedies?
Opinion -Most people can remember intimate details of what they were doing when they first heard the space shuttle Challenger had exploded. To compound the tragedy, millions of schoolchildren across the country watched the event in shocked amazement. -
September 2003 Health Care News
Opinion -The September 2003 issue of Health Care News provides extensive coverage of the ongoing legislative debate over drug reimportation and also reports on: the unfair billing practices of hospitals across the country. -
Democrats Face Dilemma Over Vouchers
Opinion -The recent switch by several prominent black elected officials in Washington, DC to support school vouchers is exposing an issue where the Democratic Party’s two strongest constituencies--teacher unions and blacks--are at odds with each other, notes -
Study: Hydrogen-Fueled Cars Offer False Promise
Opinion -As politicians and the public leap aboard the hydrogen fuel bandwagon, a University of California - Berkeley energy expert suggests we all step back, take a critical look at the technology, and consider simpler, cheaper options. -
Republicans Gamble on Democrats’ Energy Bill
Opinion -Long-awaited national energy legislation surmounted a difficult obstacle on July 31 when Senate Republicans relented to Democratic opposition and agreed to pass legislation identical to last year’s Democrat-written bill. -
Science Article Defies Global Warming Science
Opinion -A press release from the federally supported National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) claims a “New Look at Satellite Data Supports Global Warming Trend. -
Bush Administration Launches Climate Research Plan
Opinion -The Bush administration on July 24 announced an unprecedented 10-year research plan to better understand how, and to what extent, human activity may be affecting the Earth’s climate. -
Massachusetts Caught Cooking the Books
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating Massachusetts for misleading the federal government about claimed reductions in automobile pollution. -
Head Start Reforms Meet Resistance
Opinion -On July 25, the House of Representatives voted 217-216 to approve H.R. 2210, the School Readiness Act. -
Diplomas Denied as Seniors Fail Exit Exams
Opinion -If students can’t pass a test on what they are supposed to have learned in school, should they still get a high school diploma? -
Ed Schools ‘Out of Touch’ with Public, Say Critics
Opinion -As debate heated up this summer over using federal aid to reform teacher preparation and licensing, a forum at the American Enterprise Institute moderated by Second Lady Lynne Cheney posed a provocative question: Can education schools be saved? -
What Is Drug ‘Reimportation’?
Opinion -Drug reimportation refers to allowing prescription drugs produced for use in another country to be imported into the U.S. for sale here instead. Because these drugs were often originally manufactured in the U.S. -
Nonpublic Schools and the Courts
Opinion -David W. Kirkpatrick School Reform News is pleased to welcome back David W. Kirkpatrick as a contributing editor. Kirkpatrick is a senior education fellow with the U.S. Freedom Foundation, for which he writes a weekly education column.
