Opinion
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Poll: Long-Term Care Confuses Seniors
Opinion -A new national survey conducted for AARP, the senior citizen advocacy group, finds few seniors grasp the real costs of long-term care, and they don’t understand what their options are for paying that bill. -
Happy Birthday to Us!
Opinion -Health Care News celebrates its first birthday this month! Like most infants, we’ve grown by leaps and bounds, thanks to the tender loving care and devoted attention of scores of parents, aunts and uncles, kissing cousins, and generous friends. -
Alliance of feds, activist groups threatens rural America
Opinion -One of the most potent political alliances to emerge in the United States in recent years is carrying out a well-coordinated and unrelenting assault on the nation's rural communities. -
SUVs and the addiction to taxation
Opinion -Just when the blame-America-for-September 11 campaigns appeared to be running out of gas, a new version is rapidly gaining momentum. Blame the SUV! The idea that gas-guzzling SUVs are somehow feeding U.S. -
Bush Forest Service, federal judge further restrict logging
Opinion -Anti-market activist groups won two significant victories in December and January as first the Bush Forest Service, and then a federal district judge, placed new restrictions on timber recovery in the American West. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -California Davis' Budget Puts Kids on Hook A key element in California Governor Gray Davis' proposed budget for 2002-03 would require the state's children to pay for the governor's current budget deficit woes when they are grown and in their -
Time to Fight the CAFE Leviathan
Opinion -Ronald Reagan once said that a federal program, once started, is the closest thing we know to immortality. That saying is being proven true in spades with efforts in the U.S. -
Gov’t researchers caught planting false ESA evidence
Opinion -Congressmen from western states called on the federal government to mount an investigation after government researchers were caught planting false evidence of endangered species in national forests. The fraud was discovered when a U.S. -
Still wrong after all these years
Opinion -The World Summit on Sustainable Development will convene in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002. The World Summit is the 10th anniversary follow-up to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. -
Daschle battles environmentalists over spent South Dakota mine
Opinion -The battle over Missouri River water is not the only environmental issue in which Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is battling fellow Democrats. -
New studies throw cold water on warming theory
Opinion -Two major new studies, as well as temperature readings from precise satellite measurements, have produced strong new evidence the Earth is not warming. -
Enron backed emissions trading
Opinion -Democrats hope to link the Bush administration with the Enron debacle. -
Abraham selects Yucca Mountain; political legal battles begin
Opinion -Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham announced on January 11 he will officially recommend Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the permanent storage site for the nation's spent nuclear fuel. -
Skeptical Environmentalist Savaged, Vindicated
Opinion -Scientific American has sicced the big dogs on Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg for having the audacity to publish a highly referenced book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which argues global warming and many other environmental "threats" are -
Bush FDA Nominee Stirs Controversy
Opinion -President George W. Bush is traveling a bumpy road as he tries to fill the position of FDA commissioner, which has been vacant since Commissioner Jane Henney resigned in January 2001. -
03/2002: 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]. -
State Legislative Update
Opinion -Arizona Gov. Jane Hull (R) predicted spending on some programs for poor residents could exceed the state’s ability to pay. -
U.S. HMO Beats Britain’s NHS
Opinion -U.K. Chancellor Gordon Brown took new Labour's biggest gamble when he said the way to give Britain a "world-class" health service is to increase future taxes. -
When it Comes to Health Care, You Can Insure a Burning House
Opinion -Jane is 58 years old and lives in Florida. She saved up a significant retirement nest egg and decided to take early retirement. Even though she was offered COBRA continuation coverage, she did not act on it. -
Failings of Canadian Health Care Hit Close to Home
Opinion -Thirty years ago I was dating a young doctor who was experiencing severe back pain. At the time, the “Papaya Treatment” was in vogue, and the place to get it done was St. James Hospital in Toronto, Canada. -
NAHU Brings Free-Market Message to Capitol Hill
Opinion -The National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) held its 12th annual Capitol Conference on February 2-5 in the shadow of the nation's capitol. -
03/2002: The Galen Report
Opinion -The contrast between modern consumer-oriented ideas to reform the health care system and tired centralized-control models came into sharp contrast again recently. Senator Ted Kennedy, sadly, is dredging up failed ideas from the past. -
Good News and Bad in State of the Union Address
Opinion -Following President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address, delivered on January 29, there’s been a whirlwind of news about the administration's health policy initiatives. -
A Proposal to Create Personal and Portable Insurance in Texas
Opinion -Managing editor’s note: In the February 2002 issue of Health Care News, we presented a discussion of Texas’ uninsured problem written by John C. Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
