Opinion
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School Choice Scorecard as 2001 Begins
Opinion -The January 2001 issue of The Friedman Report provided the following status report on school choice in the states at the start of 2001, based on data from the National Conference of State Legislatures: Intra-District Choice (10) Alabama, -
Arizona Bilingual Programs Must Discontinue by Fall
Opinion -Arizona's landmark new law repealing bilingual education, passed nearly 2-1 by Arizona voters in November, may soon be facing rough waters as it moves into its implementation stage. -
MSAs Made Easy
Opinion -The information on this page is drawn from two publications of the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Policy Research, Medical Savings Accounts: Why the American Medical Association Supports Medical Savings Accounts (2000) and MSAs Made -
03/2001: The Pulse
Opinion -More MSA Experiments in AfricaFirst it was South Africa, and now Zimbabwe is moving ahead on the Medical Savings Account (MSA) front. A new company, Sovereign Health Zimbabwe, has been formed to provide coverage to companies with 10 or more employees. -
03/2001: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Arizona Arizona Senator Sue Grace has introduced legislation that would create a high-risk health insurance pool in the state. -
Supreme Court strikes down bird habitat rule
Opinion -In a major victory for private property rights proponents, the United States Supreme Court has struck down a rule giving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authority to regulate isolated and wholly intrastate "ponds and mudflats. -
Global warming: Watson indulges in scare tactics . . . again
Opinion -In early January, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stepped up its campaign to coerce regulatory action from the United States by releasing the Summary for Policymakers from the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR). -
Sprawl and the quality of life
Opinion -The most recent in a long line of anti-suburb studies is Driven to Spend, from the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), which analyzes the annual costs of personal transportation using U.S. -
Mass transit vs. cars: And the winner is . . .
Opinion -Critics of privately owned automobiles and trucks often claim that if external costs were taken into account and taxpayer subsidies ended, many people would abandon their cars for environmentally "superior" modes of transportation, especially transit. -
Critics of “smart growth” issue manifesto
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DEC. 21, 2000-- Two high-profile, "anti-sprawl" ballot initiatives in Arizona and Colorado were defeated November 7, but the debate over how--and even whether--to limit suburban growth continues. -
Congress holds private conservation hearings
Opinion -We expect "firsts" to occur at the beginning of a new legislative session. But in the heat of campaigns and last-minute political wrangling, they rarely happen at a session's close. -
Statement of Principle on Patient Choice
Opinion -October 11, 2000 Because the Patients' Bill of Rights will raise costs and reduce access to health insurance, employers and employees should have the ability to opt out of the provisions of the bill if they so desire. -
Employers Unite to Tackle Medical Errors
Opinion -Medical errors are an important consumer issue ripe for pandering to those who use health care the most: our elder generation. The button on this one doesn’t get any hotter. -
Who Is Conrad Meier?
Opinion -Conrad Meier is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland’s monthly newspaper on market-based health care reform. -
Does Managed Care Cause Medical Errors?
Opinion -Managed care programs restrict patient and physician choices in order to lower prices paid by employers and minimize unnecessary procedures. -
California’s energy crisis: Government, not market, failure
Opinion -New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calls it "a warning about the dangers of placing blind faith in markets." Los Angeles Times commentator Robert Scheer says it's yet another sign that "capitalism is falling apart. -
Norton confirmation is boon for common-sense environmentalism
Opinion -President George W. Bush made an outstanding choice when he selected Gale A. Norton to be Secretary of Interior. Norton is qualified, having served previously in the Interior Department and for eight years as the Attorney General of Colorado. -
Global warming theory faces real-world test . . . and loses
Opinion -For two weeks last fall, 170 national delegations met in the Netherlands to negotiate how to implement 1997's Kyoto global warming accord. -
Bush Reforms Stress Results
Opinion -Just three days into his administration, President George W. Bush kept his campaign promise to stress academic results above all in elementary and secondary education. -
What would Julian Simon have said?
Opinion -How many times, in just the past few months, have the headlines called that question to mind? When electricity brownouts disrupted California, and gasoline shortages caused panic in the Midwest. -
Grazing rights trigger showdown between ranchers, BLM
Opinion -Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument sprawls for 1.9 million acres, its slick rock canyons, spectacular red and white benches, and cliffs rising nearly a mile from the desert floor. -
Chemical toxicity: A matter of massive miscalculation
Opinion -An introduction to toxicology The toxicology testing laboratory dates back to the 1930s, but the science of toxicology in the United States can be traced more realistically to the formation of the Society of Toxicology in 1961. -
Prevention Better than Cure for Medication Problems
Opinion -By applying the timely tincture of common sense, it is possible to reduce the risks presented by medications. Avoiding medication problems is better than managing them later. -
When Patient Protection Backfires
Opinion -It was not so many years ago that managed care in general, and HMOs in particular, were hailed as the solution to ever-rising health insurance costs. President Clinton made HMOs the cornerstone of his elaborate managed competition proposal.