Opinion
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Charter School Growth Slows As Opposition Intensifies
Opinion -This fall, 2,700 charter schools are in operation across the nation, serving more than a half-million students. That’s the good news. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: Billions for School Choice
Opinion -States Spend Billions on Private and Out-of-State Schools School Year 1999-2000 State Tuition to Out-of-State and Private Schools ($000) As a % of Total State Instructional Expenses United States $2,231,271 1.1% Alabama $1,547 0. -
Larger Districts Are Less Efficient
Opinion -Rather than benefitting from economies of scale with larger school districts, a 1999 study for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution by Mike Antonucci concludes the American public school system suffers instead from “penalties of scale. -
Table: Revenues for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Opinion -Revenues for Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, by Source and State School Year 1999-2000 WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM WHERE THE MONEY GOES Share of Total Revenues Share of Total Expenditures Total Revenues ($000) Local -
Oregon Voters Rebuff Single-Payer Measure
Opinion -Seventy-nine percent of Beaver State voters on November 5 rejected a plan to have government officials run a health care system for the state’s 3.5 million residents. -
Free-Market Reformers Are Winners in Election 2002
Opinion -The 2002 election was not a referendum on health care issues. A post-election survey by pollster Dr. Whit Ayres found only 9 percent said health care was the issue that had the most influence on their vote. -
Al Gore Wants a Single-Payer Nation
Opinion -Former Vice President Al Gore is back from hibernation seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency in 2004. In a November announcement, Gore says he favors single-payer health care. -
12/2002 The Pulse
Opinion -Let’s take a look at the elections and how they will influence health care issues in the new Congress. First, this is without a doubt George W’s election. He finally gets the mandate that eluded him two years ago. -
Health Affairs Analysts Stir Up Controversy
Opinion -An October Health Affairs report by Mark Pauly and Len Nichols, calling itself “a roadmap through the areas of agreement and disagreement in a critical debate on how to solve the problem of too many uninsured Americans,” attracted a flurry of reaction -
From Inception to Ingestion
Opinion -According to studies cited by the pharmaceutical industry, it costs more than $800 million to move a new drug through the 10- to 12-year discovery, development, and approval process. -
Cost-Shifting Hides True Cost of Government-Run Health Care
Opinion -How do we ensure that Americans have access to the health care they need, encourage innovation and research, and still contain costs? -
Real Health Care Reform Means Repealing, Not Passing, Laws
Opinion -This year’s elections were similar to those in the past in at least one respect: Most candidates for office promised to “do something” to fix the country’s imploding health care system. -
Accountability and Choice: Each Depends on the Other: an exclusive interview with Chester E. Finn Jr.
Opinion -“I believe that the standards and accountability strategy for education reform coexists and may even be co-dependent with the freedom and competition strategy. -
High-Poverty Students Excel with Direct Instruction
Opinion -In successful high-poverty and high-minority schools in California, the predominant teaching method is direct instruction, where student learning is directed by and centered on the teacher. -
History a Mystery to American Youth
Opinion -A Harvard educator who wants to awaken America’s young to the inspiring power of heroism in American history has found that schools and the culture instead give students a “sour and suspicious” view of their national heritage. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Illinois * Indiana * Michigan * New York * Ohio * Vermont ILLINOIS Churches Organize Forums on Vouchers The Illinois Conference of Churches has organized a series of public forums throughout the state to discuss the possibility of a publicly -
Study: Pill-Splitting Saves Money, Is Safe
Opinion -A Stanford University Medical Center researcher said pill-splitting saves money and is likely to be safe and effective with appropriate screening ... even though he didn’t specifically study the safety of the procedure. -
A Dissenting View: Patently Absurd
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s proposal to limit the ability of biotech and pharmaceutical firms to protect products from being replaced by generic versions before their patent expires is regarded as a way to speed affordable medicines to consumers. -
12/2002 State Legislative Update
Opinion -ARKANSAS Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) says state officials will begin promoting Eli Lilly’s and Pfizer’s prescription drug discount cards to low-income residents who are eligible for Medicare and lack prescription drug coverage. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: C.A.R.E. of Dallas Shows Parents a “New World”
Opinion -Choices and Actions Regarding Education--C.A.R.E.--is a Dallas, Texas-based advocacy group that focuses on Hispanic parents. C.A.R.E. was founded in September 2001--yes, the same month as the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. -
12/2002 The Galen Report
Opinion -I was invited by Miles Cole of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce to speak about Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) at a public hearing before the Maryland Health Care Commission in Baltimore. -
Bush Acts to Limit Rx Patent Protections
Opinion -President George W. Bush announced on October 21 his plan to speed up the process of getting generic drugs to the marketplace. -
Comparison Shopping Can Reduce Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -High prescription drug prices and what to do about them were high on the campaign agendas of candidates across the country, and those issues will likely find their way into legislative proposals at the state and federal level next year. -
How School Districts Size Up
Opinion -In the 2000-01 school year, 48.