Opinion
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Ban on wilderness roads frozen until May 2001
Opinion -The wasteful and dangerous Roadless Area Conservation Rule created by former President Clinton has been frozen by President George W. Bush for an additional 60 days, until May 13, 2001. -
New Web site offers public health and water quality news
Opinion -Water Quality & Health Council Board of Directors Chair Joan B. Rose, Ph.D. College of Marine Science University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Florida Vice Chair Chris J. Wiant, Ph.D. -
Glacier melting stories defy science
Opinion -There's been a spate of stories--by Reuters, Associated Press, BBC, the London Times, and The Washington Post, among others--that report receding ice in the remote Antarctic Pine Island glacier. -
Bush right to consider opening ANWR to oil exploration
Opinion -The environmental movement's opposition to opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration ignores the history of ecologically safe oil drilling in Alaska and the considerable benefit that ANWR's vast oil reserves would be to -
Monumental folly in the West
Opinion -On January 18, 2001, while Congress considered the confirmation of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior, President Clinton announced the unilateral creation of six new national monuments in western states. -
AMA Outlines its Position on Privacy Rule
Opinion -Patient privacy is a right long advocated by the American Medical Association (AMA). Establishing federal privacy protections is a worthwhile endeavor. Yet, consensus on the details has proven to be extremely difficult. -
HIAA and Families USA Seek More Government
Opinion -The Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), an insurance trade organization, has partnered with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Families USA, a liberal advocacy group that supports government-run health care, in a compromise -
About The Health Policy Consensus Group
Opinion -The Health Policy Consensus Group is a task force of leading health care economists and health policy analysts, including researchers at the major market-oriented think tanks. -
Price Controls and Grandma’s Medicine
Opinion -Many legislators believe they are assisting senior citizens by interfering in the normal market process that establishes prescription drug prices. History, however, provides evidence to the contrary. -
NCPA and AMA Lead the Way to Market-based Reform
Opinion -President George W. Bush has told Congress he supports a market-based approach to health care reform. -
Bush Administration Stumbles
Opinion -Misgivings about President George W. Bush's ideas on health care are turning into alarm as the new administration unfolds. -
‘Bill of Rights’ a Boon to Lawyers, Not Patients
Opinion -Like used-car salesmen, politicians in Washington, D.C. have taken the flawed, old model of the patients' bill of rights and slapped a new sticker on it in an effort to fool unwitting buyers. The legislation has always been a lemon. -
04/2001: The Pulse
Opinion -Small Business Groups Work DC BeatThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is busy in Washington, supporting association health plans, expanded MSAs, and full deductibility of premiums for the self-employed, according to Al Crenshaw in the -
Privacy of Medical Records in the News
Opinion -Last year a sophisticated Internet hacker took control of the University of Washington Medical Center’s network and downloaded the admissions records of 4,000 cardiology patients. -
04/2001: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Arizona According to an opinion issued by Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano, the state’s tobacco settlement money must be used for health care programs included in the Proposition 204 initiative passed by voters— not to supplant funding for -
Why We Need Market-based Health Care Reform: Part 2 of 2
Opinion -The United States does not have a properly functioning market for health care, and the financing system needs to be reformed. The market is distorted by a tax policy that is mistargeted, miscalibrated, and open-ended. -
Medicaid Waivers: Wrong Cure for High Drug Prices
Opinion -The Health Care Financing Administration (the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid) can waive some federal requirements for Medicaid eligibility to allow states to experiment with new ways of delivering health care to the poor. -
Bush Bilingual Plan Offers Major Changes
Opinion -Since 1998, when California voters approved Proposition 227 and virtually ended the state's bilingual education programs, state- and district-wide reform of bilingual education has spread rapidly throughout the United States. -
Anti-Intellectualism Runs Rampant in U.S. Education: Diane Ravitch
Opinion -"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. -
The new economy runs on coal
Opinion -The New Economy's primary interface with the old comes down to one thing: electricity. Computers and information technology are huge consumers of it. -
Recreationists win Illinois access suit
Opinion -Two recreational access advocacy organizations have succeeded in overturning a settlement agreement between Heartwood, Inc. and the U.S. Forest Service. The agreement, adopted in U.S. -
Thompson to Review HIPAA Privacy Rules
Opinion -As one of his first major acts as the Bush administration’s new Health and Human Services Secretary, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has postponed the effective date of privacy regulations called for by the Health Insurance Portability and -
New evidence casts doubt on global warming
Opinion -Fresh doubt has been cast on evidence for global warming following the discovery that a key method of measuring temperature change has exaggerated the warming rate by almost 40 percent. -
Chemophobia at the crossroads
Opinion -Thirty-nine years ago a frightening best-seller written by Rachel Carson, titled Silent Spring, dramatically changed the direction of the environmental movement in the U.S. and worldwide.