Opinion
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Student Drinking
Opinion -Many newspaper articles claim binge drinking is a worsening problem among teenagers and on college campuses. These articles give the wrong impression. It’s time for some balanced reporting. -
Table: Children’s Mean Reading, Math, and General Knowledge Performance
Opinion -Children's Mean Reading, Mathematics and General Knowledge Performance in Kindergarten and First Grade, by Child and Family Characteristics KindergartenFall1998 Kindergarten Spring1999 First GradeFall1999 First GradeSpring2000 GENERAL -
Target Benefits
Opinion -Did you know more than 60 drug companies have “patient assistance programs” that make prescription medications available to millions of qualified patients at no cost? -
Teens Are Not Immune to H.I.V.
Opinion -Newly reported H.I.V. infections in the under-25 generation rose in 2002. The increase was troubling and may be due to the fact this younger generation never experienced the fear surrounding AIDS in the mid-1980s. -
Uninsured Rate
Opinion -43.6 million people without a health insurance policy is not the crisis it’s being made out to be by advocates for national health care. -
U.S. Betrayed by WTO Patent Policy
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s diligence in enlisting allies to fight terrorism and disarm Saddam Hussein is paying off, but the United States all but capitulated in its efforts to protect vital pharmaceutical and biotech patents during recent trade talks. -
Water: Our World’s Most Valuable Resource
Opinion -Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon Island Press, September 2002, 304 pages cloth Water Follies is an amazing book. -
Georgia County Fed Up with Too Many Rules and Regulations
Opinion -Chicago, Illinois: Fed up with the complexity of zoning ordinances and various other land use restrictions already in existence, and a new raft of rules handed down by the state government, elected officials in Habersham County, Georgia, took a radical -
Report on DOE Workshop on the Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting System (HTML)
Opinion -Report of James L. Johnston on the proceedings of the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting System 1605(b) workshop held December 5-6, 2002 Chicago, Illinois Background On February 14, 2002 President George W. -
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health
Opinion -Testimony of Jeffrey Trigg before the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health a government agency, under the auspices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, created to coordinate the anti-tobacco -
School Choice Options Debated in Colorado
Opinion -One hundred and fifty activists, legislators, educators, and concerned parents gathered in downtown Denver on September 10 to address the question: “What’s next for Colorado families now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of school choice? -
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.
