Opinion
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Competition: A Cost-Effective Cure for Troubled Schools
Opinion -Decades of increased spending on our nation's public school system have not produced the desired results of increased school quality and student achievement. -
State Roundup
Opinion -California District of Columbia Florida Hawaii Missouri New Jersey North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin CALIFORNIA Bill Would Permit Teacher Unions to Bargain Everything California Speaker of the Assembly Herb Wesson -
Business Roundtable Rolls Out Patient Safety Survey
Opinion -The Leapfrog Group, sponsored by The Business Roundtable with support from the National Health Care Purchasing Institute, unveiled in January the results of a months-long survey aimed at determining how seriously urban acute-care facilities take the -
Missouri Proposal Would Give Patients Choice
Opinion -Under a bill introduced earlier this year in the Missouri State Senate, HMOs would be required to accept into their network any qualified health care provider. The Missouri senate's only physician, Marvin Singleton (R-Joplin), sponsored the measure. -
04/2002: State Legislative Update
Opinion -GEORGIA A bill (SB 470) introduced by State Sen. Jack Hill (D) would create a prescription drug discount program for Georgia residents age 55 and over. -
04/2002: 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]. -
Almost 1 in 8 Students Labeled ‘Disabled’
Opinion -A new study by the National Research Council shows enrollment in special education programs is growing at an unprecedented pace, with nearly one in eight students now labeled as disabled. -
Angel Revives Catholic Schools in Memphis
Opinion -A second round of anonymous multimillion-dollar donations will help re-open three long-closed Catholic schools in Memphis, Tennessee, according to the February issue of The Friedman Report. -
Bush calls for power plant emission cuts
Opinion -During the same February 14 speech in which President George W. Bush announced his new greenhouse gas program, the President proposed mandatory reductions in sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and mercury emissions under a cap-and-trade system. -
Bush’s greenhouse gas program creates an unsettled future
Opinion -I suppose that business-as-usual has at least a chance to meet President Bush’s CO2 target for 2012: an 18 percent reduction in energy intensity, to 151 tons of carbon equivalent per million 2001 dollars of GDP. -
Clean Skies initiative raises many questions
Opinion -President George W. -
Free Market Meets Society’s Needs
Opinion -Anti-business activists are using the Enron debacle as an excuse to lay the blame for all manner of societal ills at the front door of big business, while calling for more government regulations. -
Global Climate Coalition disbands
Opinion -The Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a Washington-based group that once was the dominant voice of U.S. industry on the climate change issue, has announced its "deactivization. -
Guilt-free guzzling
Opinion -It was only a few months ago that the hysterics were dominating the talk over energy prices. Gasoline was running toward $2 a gallon and destined for $3. -
Hippocratic Hypocrisy
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: The American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine—a key participant in the Medical Professionalism Project described below—will meet in Philadelphia on April 11-14. -
Humans bring end to Ice Age disasters
Opinion -During an Internet debate in February, federal climatologist Michael McCracken (not a global warming skeptic) revealed that rising CO2 concentrations may have banished forever the disastrous Ice Ages that have bedeviled the Earth for the past few million -
Internet Offers Easy, Illegal Access to Pharmaceutical Drugs
Opinion -Some Internet drug store sites ignore any manner of medical review or prescription authorization. They boldly go where no law-abiding pharmacy would dare to go. -
Law Gives Charter Schools Access to Tax-Exempt Bonds
Opinion -A recent change to federal law permits local school districts and charter schools to enter into public-private partnerships to take advantage of tax-exempt bonds for developing new school facilities as well as renovating, refurbishing, and equipping -
Letters to the Editor
Opinion -Dear Mr. Taylor: I have just read your editorial [“When proselytizing goes to far,” Environment & Climate News, February 2002] and I suggest that where you went wrong was to allow such drivel to be espoused without immediate challenge! -
‘Marriage Made in Heaven’ Would Be Good News for Consumers
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. -
More Troubles for TennCare
Opinion -The federal government's unwillingness to meet Tennessee's request for $13 billion over three years for TennCare could mean the end of the state's Medicaid managed care program and force the state to return to traditional Medicaid, a state official told -
Supplemental Rebate Bills Pending (table)
Opinion -Supplemental Rebate BillsPending in the States(as of March 2002) Arizona SB 1091 California SB 697 Colorado SB 162 and HB 1314 -
U.S. Faces Malpractice Crisis
Opinion -Today, American medicine is at the point of no return in its relationship with the predatory medical malpractice lawsuit industry, and with the dangerously high insurance premiums it spawns. -
We Call it Insurance, But That’s Not Healthy
Opinion -Most efforts to improve the nation’s health care finance system involve tinkering with the present insurance-based model. Such efforts are likely to fail in the long run, because insurance itself is the wrong model for part of the system.
