Opinion
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An Asymmetric Bias toward Government Regulation
Opinion -Does the Nobel Prize committee know something health insurance markets don't? -
Private Sector Responds Quickly to Bioterrorism
Opinion -As the anthrax scare has mushroomed, modern technology's solutions have emerged like a quick strike force. Medical treatment was instantly available with the antibiotic, Cipro. -
Panel: U.S. Science Education Poses Security Risk
Opinion -After examining possible U.S. responses to the prospective strategic environment of the next quarter century, the U.S. -
The Benefits of Shared Facilities
Opinion -Identifying and negotiating for charter school facilities that already exist and are part of a business or government entity is both cost-effective and beneficial to all parties. -
Energy bill offers a mixed tax bag
Opinion -The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 4, which contains much of the energy plan proposed by the Bush administration. Ahead lies Senate consideration and, if the Senate approves an energy bill, a House-Senate conference to reconcile the two. -
Global warming and other myths
Opinion -What are some of the common features of the Global Warming scare and other widely spread popular beliefs, like astrology, UFOlogy, harmful effects from low-level nuclear radiation and from electric transmission lines? 1. A tenuous scientific base. -
High-latitude studies refute global warming
Opinion -The first and most striking signs of human-induced global warming should be evident at the higher polar latitudes, according to virtually all climate change alarmists and the computer models they tout. -
Science debunks Glacier Park warming alarm
Opinion -Another frenzy of global warming alarmism occurred in early September, when NBC reported America was about to lose one of its most famous national parks. -
Do people cause global warming?
Opinion -The debate over the President's decision on the Kyoto Protocol has focused media and public attention on the question of global climate: Do people cause global warming? -
Radical environmentalists side with terrorists
Opinion -The terrorist attacks on America have awakened the nation to a previously unthinkable assault on our freedoms and our way of life. -
12/2001: The Pulse
Opinion -I was in Maine recently debating single payer with John Ross, MD, president of Physicians for a National Health Program. -
Health Care in England: Not Your Cup of Tea: Part 1
Opinion -It is one thing to read the U.S. media's meager reporting on the critical condition of Britain's health care system. -
Philanthropy Pushes School Choice Forward
Opinion -While efforts to improve the U.S. K-12 education system via competition-based reforms are regularly thwarted in state legislatures and on Capitol Hill, independent-minded philanthropists have nevertheless found ways to advance such reforms directly. -
Prescription Drugs by Lottery
Opinion -How do the British address prescription drug coverage—currently among the most contentious of health care issues in the U.S.? Not in any way we’d consider to be a model! -
School Choice Roundup
Opinion -COLORADO Teacher Unions Challenge Paycheck Protection The Colorado Federation of Public Employees and the Colorado Federation of Teachers--both affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers--have filed for an injunction in district court to -
Socialized Medicine at the Back Door
Opinion -What's happening in Portland, Maine (see the news story on page 1 and The Pulse, page 3) is not just activists chanting their favorite leftist sound-bites, nor is it the action of "well-intended" people unaware of the "unintended" consequences of their -
Unintended Consequences Buried in Patients’ Bill of Rights
Opinion -Some surprising facets of the bipartisan Patient Protection Act are beginning to emerge. The House of Representatives, with the backing of the Bush administration, passed its amended version of the patients' bill of rights (H.R. -
Two Join Heartland Board of Directors
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL November 26, 2001 – Ross Kaminsky and Thomas Walton joined The Heartland Institute’s Board of Directors at its October 26, 2001, meeting. -
Employers Embrace Consumer-Driven Insurance
Opinion -In a continuing effort to give employees more control over their health insurance coverage, defense contractor Raytheon Co. -
Private-Sector Rx Firm Offers National Discounts
Opinion -GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced the creation of a new discount program allowing low-income Medicare beneficiaries who lack drug coverage to purchase most of the company's medications at discounts of at least 25 percent. -
Medicare Plans May Get Cash ‘Infusion’
Opinion -CongressDaily reports Thomas Scully, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), predicted on October 15 a "better than even chance" lawmakers would provide Medicare managed care plans with an additional "infusion of cash" -
The SimpleCare Story
Opinion -Editor’s note: In “Fee-for-Service Health Care Makes a Comeback,” published in the inaugural (March 2001) issue of Health Care News, we offered a brief introduction to SimpleCare, and described how the program had grown to about 600 medical providers in -
Vermont Senator Joins Rx Advocacy Group
Opinion -State Senator Cheryl Rivers (D-Windsor), considered one of the most liberal members of the Vermont Senate, has left her seat to take a job with a lobbying group that advocates government control of prescription drug prices. -
Anthrax Attack?
Opinion -My first brush with "bioterrorism" occurred in 1997, when I was working as a television producer half a block from the B'nai B'rith National Headquarters in Washington, DC.