Opinion
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Smile, You’re on Candid Camera-Pill
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a tiny camera patients can swallow to yield a living-color tour of the stomach and bowel. -
EPA enforcer quits with a flourish, joins left-leaning activist group
Opinion -A top Environmental Protection Agency enforcement official resigned with a flourish on February 27, joining a left-leaning environmental activist group and blasting the Bush administration on his way out the door. -
Asbestos Litigation Threatens Judicial Crisis
Opinion -The national plague of asbestos litigation is about to arrive on your doorstep in the form of higher prices, lost employment, collapsing stock prices, and delayed justice. -
Books, Web Sites Offer Lessons in Economics
Opinion -How many high school students do you suppose can answer the following questions? What function does an entrepreneur perform in the economy? What is the average rate of profit earned by businesses in the U.S. in a typical year? -
No Backlash on Standards
Opinion -The latest "reality check" on the standards-based reform movement, recently released by Public Agenda in conjunction with Education Week, confirms that the notion of a standards "backlash" has been greatly exaggerated. -
05/2002: The Galen Report
Opinion -Senior Capitol Hill staff members outlined prospects for passage of a Medicare prescription drug benefit this year during an April Commonwealth Fund conference on "Options and Possibilities. -
05/2002: The Pulse
Opinion -You are invited to participate in an online discussion list dealing with many of the issues we report on here. To check it out, send an e-mail to [email protected]. -
Anti-Obesity Activists Take Aim at Food Industry
Opinion -The television news media has jumped on the obesity bandwagon, providing a platform for self-described consumer activists who blame the food industry for obesity. -
Author: Medicare Faces Midlife Crisis
Opinion -“Midlife crisis” is the term given to the feeling many of us get around age 40: a fear that our time on this Earth is running out. This is a fair description of Medicare, a socialized health care experiment whose time is running out. -
Building the Twenty-First Century Hospital
Opinion -The only thing changing more than the weather this time of year is technology. The rapid developments made recently in high-tech health care are revolutionizing hospitals through advancements in medicine, surgical techniques, and computerized procedures. -
Bush Loosens up Privacy Rules
Opinion -The Bush administration has proposed changing some of the federal rules designed to protect the confidentiality of medical records, including the ability of patients to decide in advance who should be able to use their personal health information. -
Canada’s Abysmal Health Technology Record
Opinion -The Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario has just added a new MRI unit; Alberta has committed itself to increasing the number of MRI units in the province by seven; and the Federal Government has allocated $1 billion of spending to increasing -
Congress ducks out of the CAFE
Opinion -For a libertarian, what could be less principled than forcing new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards onto automakers and auto consumers? For a liberal, what could be less principled than an energy policy without strict new CAFE standards? -
Court defends property rights, narrows the scope of ESA
Opinion -It took a quarter of a million dollars and three years, but rancher Jeff Menges and the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association (ACGA) have won a major ruling on how cattle grazing can occur on federal public lands in Arizona. -
Farm Bureau endorses EchoStar/DIRECTV merger
Opinion -Last October, in an announcement with major implications for rural America, the nation’s two major digital satellite television service providers announced plans to merge. -
Food and Drink Police
Opinion -There have always been ascetics and self-scourgers, and in a free society they are at perfect liberty to act (and eat) as their consciences (or bellies) dictate. -
Ice shelf collapse triggers debate
Opinion -In February and March, an ice shelf known as the Larsen B ice shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula collapsed, leading many to raise once again the specter of global warming. -
Just the Facts: Teacher Certification
Opinion -Although serious questions have been raised about the value of the current procedure for certifying elementary and secondary schoolteachers, sheer inertia and lack of comfort with alternatives mean it's unlikely the procedure will be changed -
Letter: Farm Bureau endorses EchoStar-DIRECTV merger
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Local issues take center stage in environmental debates
Opinion -A tried and true political adage declares “all politics are local.” Those who doubt it need only look at the past year in environmental news to see the truth in the saying. -
Mexican Jumping Genes
Opinion -A common nightmare for opponents of genetically modified (GM) (also known as "transgene") crops: “What would happen if the genes got loose? -
Not in My Backyard
Opinion -Given the evidence presented in our series on England’s socialized medical system, it should not be difficult to question the merit and morality of duplicating such a flawed arrangement in the United States. -
Paige Calls for More School Choice
Opinion -"It's a disgrace" that a country claiming to value education "hasn't powered it up with the energy of choice," declared U.S. -
Protecting wetlands, destroying freedom
Opinion -Anti-business groups, smart-growth advocates, anti-market environmentalists, and NIMBY (not in my backyard) activists are organizing around the country to back state legislation to “protect wetlands” in the wake of a U.S.