Opinion
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Vouchers Hike Black Student Test Scores
Opinion -Compared to their counterparts who remained in public schools, low-income African-American students achieved impressive test score gains when they used privately funded school vouchers from the School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) to attend -
Would Higher Teacher Salaries Improve Teacher Quality?
Opinion -Teacher union officials, and those steeped in the tradition of schools of education, assert that blanket increases in teacher salaries are one way to achieve an improved education system. -
Not Bad for 185 Days of Work
Opinion -Not Bad for 185 Days of Work Over the past decade, teacher salary growth outpaced CPI growth, with salaries increasing 33 percent compared to a 30 percent increase in the CPI. -
Vouchers Help the Learning Disabled
Opinion -A recently released study of 22 nations has established that families of special-needs children are among the biggest beneficiaries of universal school choice. -
Growing School Choice in the Community: an exclusive interview with Kevin Teasley
Opinion -What’s a voucher proponent doing running a charter school? -
Title I’s Recipe for Fraud
Opinion -Individual schools receive Title I funding based on the percentage of students eligible for the federally subsidized free-lunch program. -
Real People, Real Coverage
Opinion -Roughly 15 million Americans who are too young to qualify for Medicare and too affluent to qualify for Medicaid purchase individual (i.e., non-group) health insurance to cover major medical expenses. -
06/2002: The Pulse
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Florida HMOs Bleeding Money
Opinion -Florida’s health maintenance organizations (HMOs) had a painfully unprofitable year in 2001, losing a total of $52.8 million, according to preliminary figures filed with the Florida Department of Insurance (DOI). -
Missouri Legislators Scale Back Health Powers Act
Opinion -In wide-ranging, give-and-take floor debates, Missouri legislators have scaled back the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), a broad anti-terrorism bill the Senate approved in February. -
Court Allows Social Security Disability Rules to Stand
Opinion -On March 27, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to second-guess the Social Security Administration, deferring to the agency’s authority to work out the details for implementing and applying its disability rules. -
Cal. Parity Law Has Little Effect on Premiums or Coverage
Opinion -A new report from Mathematica Policy Research Inc. concludes implementation of California’s mental health parity law has had, to date, no ill effect on health insurance in the state. -
MSAs Better than COBRA
Opinion -The U.S. Senate may soon debate Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) legislation that would provide health coverage for workers who lose their jobs due to foreign competition. -
06/2002: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Alabama Louisiana Tennessee Arkansas Mississippi Texas Indiana Oregon Wisconsin ALABAMA Officials at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) declined to grant Alabama permission to continue to use the -
06/2002: The Galen Report
Opinion -Tax credits are on the front burner again with two new bills. The first, by Rep. -
California Teacher Union Attacks Citizen Control of Schools
Opinion -The California Teachers Association (CTA) was sitting pretty just a few months ago. Last year, it achieved a statewide double-digit pay raise. -
Capitol Hill Beat
Opinion -Extensive Special Education Hearings Begin On April 18, the House Subcommittee on Education Reform held its first hearing pertaining to the scheduled 2002 reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). -
Bush Backs Federally Mandated Mental Health Insurance Parity
Opinion -President George W. Bush broke ranks with free-market supporters, the small business community, and Republican leaders in the House, endorsing legislation forcing health insurers to treat psychiatric and physical diseases equally. -
Kennedy and Clinton Launch Campaign for Government-Run Health Care
Opinion -Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) plans to introduce new health care legislation that would be cosponsored by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York). -
Tennessee Doctors Sue HMOs
Opinion -Alleging HMOs have created “shell games that avoid their contractual obligations,” the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) is suing Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, CIGNA, and UnitedHealthcare, charging them with unfair and deceptive business -
40 Percent of What?
Opinion -The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires the federal government to cover a share of special education costs. -
What Digital Divide?
Opinion -With two million new users being added each month, more than half of the nation now uses the Internet, and the much-decried “digital divide” is closing at a rapid rate, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce. -
Ashcroft Rebuked in Oregon Court
Opinion -According to U.S. District Judge Robert Jones of Portland, Oregon, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is not the nation’s health care cop. -
Health Insurance Heartburn
Opinion -Our health care system has a very bad case of regulatory indigestion. After years of an indulging regulatory diet cooked up in both Democratic and Republican kitchens, health insurance heartburn is rising faster than you can say “pass the Rolaids.
