Opinion
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Should the Medicare Bureaucracy Manage a Drug Benefit?
Opinion -Many Members of Congress want the current Medicare bureaucracy to manage a new Medicare prescription drug benefit. But a major government-wide survey of federal managers, conducted by the U.S. -
Rx Reimportation: A Legislative History
Opinion -In the absence of any Congressional action on a Medicare prescription drug benefit, some states have focused instead on immediate, incremental measures such as drug discount cards and drug reimportation. -
10/2002 State Legislative Update
Opinion -While preparing the November update, I kept running into the numerous convulsions over sharply increasing medical malpractice insurance rates. -
Bad Medicine for America
Opinion -Prescription drugs and their costs are high on political agendas this campaign season. Unfortunately, many candidates are seeking to score cheap points by attacking the nation’s pharmaceutical industry, the most innovative in the world. -
California Defies Federal Stem Cell Policy
Opinion -On September 22, California Gov. Gray Davis signed into law a bill that encourages stem cell research using embryos from fertility clinics or embryonic cloning. The measure takes effect January 1, 2003. -
Energy Bill Hangs in Balance
Opinion -The future of America’s energy supply hung in the balance as the fall Congressional term neared its end. As this publication went to press, negotiators from the U.S. -
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Opinion -The Kyoto Protocol on global warming is an amendment to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more popularly known as the Rio Treaty. -
Oregon Health Initiative Offers Wrong Prescription
Opinion -Oregon residents will go to the polls November 5 to decide whether to be the laboratory for testing the nation’s first broadly applied single-payer health system. -
Solution to High Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -CHICAGO: High prescription drug prices and what to do about them have become major issues in state and federal political races in Missouri. But advocates of having the government “do something” to lower prices may be overlooking a far simpler solution. -
An International Perspective on Smoking
Opinion -After a day at work in Stockholm, Sweden, Lene heads for a nearby lounge where she knows her friends will be, for a big cup of mocha, a snifter full of single malt, and the rich smell of a friend’s cigar. -
Avoid Environmental Sensationalism
Opinion -There may be lessons from the Montreal Protocol and ozone depletion to be applied to the Kyoto Protocol and global warming, but they are not the ones suggested in your editorial. One important lesson is to avoid environmental sensationalism. -
Correct Lessons from Shrinking Ozone Hole
Opinion -I agree with the title of your editorial ("The sky is not falling" Oct 12, 2002) but wish to correct some of the scientific information: The Antarctic Ozone Hole (AOH) was never "theorized" but discovered in 1985 and explained only much later; By -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-11
Opinion -Take that, Mississippi! Mississippi may rank last among the 50 states in per-capita income, but it ranks first in lawsuit abuse. Since 1995, Mississippi courts have awarded plaintiffs some $1. -
Asbestos Litigation Is Bankrupting America
Opinion -What does Bubble-Wrap™, the popular packing material that many kids (and more than a few adults) love to “pop,” have to do with asbestos? If you answered “nothing,” you are right. -
Testimony on Affirmative Action by Jonathan Bean
Opinion -October 1, 2002 Study on Faculty Diversity Illinois Board of Higher Education 431 East Adams Street Springfield, IL 62701 Dear Board Members: I strongly protest the IBHE’s campaign to promote faculty “diversity,” which it falsely equates with -
Still No Choice for Poor and Minority Students
Opinion -Millions of children were left behind as the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reform began to take effect this fall. -
You’ve been had!
Opinion -You’ve Been Had!How the Media and EnvironmentalistsTurned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs Melvin A Benarde, Rutgers University Press, $28 As his title suggests, epidemiologist Melvin Benarde is not one to mince words. -
Table One: Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth
Opinion -Table One:Mid-Level Home Prices and City and Urban Area Growth Percent Growth 1990-2000 Price of Mid-Level Home City Urban Area Palo Alto $1,263,250 5 7 San Francisco 891,000 7 6 Oakland 649,333 7 6 Boston 628,333 3 45 Boulder -
Already Booming, Tutoring Receives Large NCLB Boost
Opinion -In search of the best possible education, Americans already spend more than $5 billion a year on private tutoring. -
Declining Literacy a Threat to Newspapers
Opinion -U.S. newspapers have a life-or-death interest in schoolchildren being taught how to read and becoming motivated to read regularly. The trends are not encouraging—for literacy or for newspapers. -
Ballot Initiatives Used to Reform Bilingual Education
Opinion -Theodore Roosevelt, the country’s 26th President, was a firm believer in the ballot initiative as an instrument “not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative. -
Farming Equals Polluting, Court Says
Opinion -After receiving a battery of briefs seeking its review, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide the important issue of whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the farming practice known as “deep ripping” or “deep plowing. -
West Nile just the beginning
Opinion -The recent arrival of West Nile virus will not be the last, nor the deadliest, of mosquito-borne diseases to invade the United States and attack American citizens, scientists warn. -
Grassroots activists to rally in Florida
Opinion -The worst fears of land-acquiring bureaucracies and big-government activist groups have become reality: Last year’s Klamath Falls protests were merely the genesis, not the culmination, of a renewed property rights movement.