Opinion
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No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Pennsylvania
Opinion -The likely cost of a Pennsylvania-only greenhosue gas program to consumers and businesses -- $54.0 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhosue gas program. -
No. 101 – State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis: Impact on Utah
Opinion -The likely cost of a Utah-only greenhouse gas program to consumers and businesses -- $12.0 billion -- can be divided by the number of households in the state to reveal the cost per household of a typical greenhouse gas program. -
Please Don’t Poop in My Salad
Opinion -Anti-smoking advocates sure know how to hurl insults at those who defend smokers’ rights. -
Spend the evening with Heartland Senior Fellow Dr. Merrill Matthews!
Opinion -Monday, February 24, 2003, 5-8 p.m. Mid-America Club 80th Floor - Aon Building, 200 East Randolph Drive, Chicago, Illinois Cash Bar Free Hors d’Oeuvres! Space is limited! For reservations, call The Heartland Institute, 312/377-4000. -
Bush’s State of The Union Proposals On Health Care Will Fuel Debate
Opinion -The debate between Democrats and Republicans over health care issues in 2003 promises to be more productive than it has been in quite some time. -
Wood-burning Fireplaces May Be Banned in California
Opinion -For more than a million California residents, December 24, 2002 may have been the last Christmas Eve during which they could cozy up to a fire and share a little holiday spirit. -
Backyard Trash-burning a Major Source of Dioxin
Opinion -A new publication by the Chlorine Chemistry Council, Backyard Trash Burning: The Wrong Answer, warns of the increasingly significant contribution of uncontrolled backyard trash-burning to pollutant levels. -
No Apologies Needed for Driving an SUV
Opinion -Americans like the environment. But the November 2002 elections demonstrated they don’t particularly like the advocacy groups that claim to speak for the “environmental movement.” Why? -
Court Blocks Oil Recovery, Indian Whaling
Opinion -Also in December 2002, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made two other controversial rulings affecting environmental laws. -
‘Bounty’ Funding Pushes More Kids into Special Ed
Opinion -Does the prospect of getting more money--a “bounty”--for each extra special education student persuade some educators to identify more children as disabled? -
Glad You Asked!
Opinion -The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) give parents options for transferring their children out of schools needing improvement to better-performing public school. On December 4, the U.S. -
Table: State-by-State Cost Per Proficient Fourth-Grade Reader
Opinion -Cost Per ProficientFourth-Grade Reader State NAEP Student Achievement: % scoring at or above proficient in Grade 4 reading (1998) % Annual Current Expenditure Per Pupil (1997-98) $ Cost to Produce a Proficient Fourth-Grader in 1998 ($ x 5)/% -
Private Schools Don’t Skim the Best Disabled Students
Opinion -Despite several studies demonstrating such claims to be false, critics of school vouchers continue to claim private schools would skim the best students from public schools, leaving public schools to handle all the difficult-to-educate students. -
02/2003 The Friedman Report: An Educator’s Journey
Opinion -Dr. Alberta Wilson had become emotionally drained. -
Taking the Parent out of the National PTA:an exclusive interview with Charlene K. Haar
Opinion -“PTA parents in general are concerned about what’s happening at their local schools, and the PTA leadership at the local schools deserves a great deal of praise: They do all of the work and raise all of the money that supports the state organization as -
College Vouchers Could Provide Model for K-12
Opinion -Instead of paying more than $460 million to Colorado’s colleges and universities to provide a hidden subsidy for the tuition charged to the state’s 200,000 students, a nine-member blue-ribbon panel appointed by Governor Bill Owens has proposed giving -
Congress Should Make MSAs Permanent
Opinion -The Medical Savings Account (MSA) pilot project, created by provisions in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2003. -
Health Care Spending in 2001: What the Study Found
Opinion -Hospital Care Hospital spending in 2001 reached more than $451 billion. Between 1999 and 2000, the quantity of services used per patient increased by 2.2 percent; between 2000 and 2001, the rate of increase was 4.2 percent. -
Massachusetts Effort to Tax Prescriptions Leads to Chaos
Opinion -A new tax on prescription drugs has come under heavy criticism from pharmacists, insurers, and consumer advocates. An estimated 55 million prescriptions will be subject to a tax of $1. -
Association Group Health Insurance Sparks Controversy
Opinion -Health insurance premiums are going up by double-digit rates for the third year in a row, and some workers and employers are seeing increases of 30, 40, and even 50 percent. -
States Use HIFA Waivers to Expand Private Insurance
Opinion -Waivers granted through the Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) initiative give state officials an opportunity to expand health care coverage to the uninsured and help individuals and families escape crumbling public health programs -
A Health Care Reform Agenda: Desirable Federal Changes
Opinion -John McClaughry is president of the Ethan Allen Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization based in Vermont. -
U.S. Spent $1.4 Trillion on Health Care in 2001
Opinion -Americans spent an unprecedented $1. -
Table: U.S. Spending on Health Care, 1980-2001
Opinion -U.S. Spending on Health Care, 1980-2001 Item 1980 1988 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Amount in Billions National Health Expenditures $245.8 $558.1 $696.0 $888.1 $937.2 $990.1 $1,039.4 $1,092.7 $1,150.0 $1,219.7 $1,310.