Opinion
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Statement on Microsoft Settlement Decision by The Heartland Institute
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL: On Friday, November 1, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, and nine state attorneys general of antitrust charges brought against Microsoft in 1998. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-12
Opinion -An Enormous Victory . . . for Consumers On November 1, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly upheld the settlement between Microsoft, the U.S. -
Conservative Black Leader and Free-Market Think Tank Join Forces
Opinion -CHICAGO: Lee H. Walker, a leading mainstream conservative black spokesperson, has joined forces with The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank based in Chicago, to launch The New Coalition at The Heartland Institute. -
Daschle Stops Healthy Forests Initiative in Senate
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative stalled in the U.S. Senate this fall as political maneuvering by the Democratic leadership assured the proposal would not attract the votes it needed to pass. -
Land-use Regulation Makes Housing less Affordable, Harvard Study Finds
Opinion -A March 2002 study published by the Harvard Institute of Economic Research at Harvard University demonstrates the effects of zoning and other regulation on housing affordability. -
‘Natural’ Holiday Foods Are Not Carcinogen-free
Opinion -The holiday season is a good time to remember that the American food supply is by far the best in the world—and the best it has been in the history of this country. -
Happy Holidays to All
Opinion -’Twas the day before Thanksgiving And all across the nation Families gathered in prayer With goodwill and salutation As they assembled with loved ones On their Holiday morning Misguided alarmists Gave dire chemical warnings Preservatives, -
Chemicals in Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Opinion -Menu analysis prepared by staff, directors, and scientific advisors of the American Council for Science and Health, with technical assistance from Dr. Ruth Kava, Director of Nutrition, and Dr. Leonard Flynn, scientific consultant. -
Solar Woes Shock Sacramento
Opinion -On September 6, the Sacramento Bee revealed that the showpiece of the city’s municipal electric utility, an internationally known solar power program, is in shambles. -
Measure 27: Oregon’s War Against Biotech
Opinion -The voters of Oregon, who long have marched to their own drum beat, are being tempted by radical anti-capitalist groups to adopt a policy that would have terrible consequences for the nation and the world. -
Promises, Promises, Promises!
Opinion -In the early 1890s, the land in the northwest corner of Montana, almost due north of Kalispell, was settled by “homesteaders” pursuant to the Homestead Act of 1862. -
President Offers a Way to Address the Forests Debate
Opinion -Few issues have raised such intense emotion as President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative. Private forestry, logging, and land management are venerable traditions in America. -
Britain Considers Privatization
Opinion -Managing Editor’s Note: David Green, director of London’s CIVITAS, The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, sees progress in the debate over opening England’s single-payer health care system to private players, competition, and choice. -
10/2002 The Pulse
Opinion -Let’s rev up those engines by starting with a bit of hubris from academia. Grant Reeher is a poli-sci professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse. -
Addicted to Tobacco Taxes
Opinion -Arizona’s politicians can’t make up their minds about tobacco. -
Maine Rx Price Controls Violate Medicaid Law
Opinion -Maine’s beleaguered prescription drug program is still under fire for violating Medicaid and interstate commerce laws. Although the bill was enacted by the state legislature in 2001, it has not yet taken effect. -
Executive Summary: Prescription Drug Security Plan (PDS)
Opinion -The program has two parts: 1. An up-front subsidy for routine drug expenses 2. -
Medicare Drug Follies
Opinion -Our senior citizens should have the life-saving medicines they need without going broke or giving up life’s other necessities in the process. However, we need to inject or infuse a dose of common sense into the treatment plan. -
IRS Ruling Expected to Increase HRA Participation
Opinion -A June 2002 ruling by the Internal Revenue Service may boost sales of defined-contribution plans by health insurance companies, but it’s debatable whether the decision will slow spending on health services. -
IRS Ruling Makes Patient Choice A Reality
Opinion -There is a saying I often think of when discussing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): “Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible, impossible.” But every now and then even the IRS surprises me by doing the exact opposite. -
10/2002 The Galen Report
Opinion -The revolution in consumer-driven health care is indeed taking hold, if the responses to two speeches I gave in October are an indicator. I spoke in Ocean City to the annual convention of MedChi, the Medical Society of Maryland. -
Health Care Inflation 101
Opinion -On September 21, 2002 USA Today writers attempted to explain double-digit health care inflation. The news story (and I’m being generous here) was headlined: “Finger Pointers Can’t Settle On Who’s to Blame for Health Costs. -
Greens Suffer Setback at Johannesburg Summit
Opinion -In a stunning setback for the anti-market “Green” wing of the global environmental movement, delegates at the recently concluded World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa rejected calls for restricting poorer nations’ -
Bush Backs Greenhouse Gas Trading Scheme
Opinion -On February 14, 2002 President George W. Bush directed various agencies to transform the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases program into a program awarding “transferable credits” for “voluntary” emission reductions.
