Opinion
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Myths about Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Opinion -For more than 50 years, America has relied on employers as the primary source of health insurance coverage. For the most part, this has been a successful approach, providing coverage in 1998 to 155 million people, compared to only 15. -
Unlimited Prescription Drug Coverage May Endanger Seniors
Opinion -"Hazardous to seniors' health." That could be an appropriate warning label to attach to proposals being made for unlimited prescription drug coverage under Medicare. -
America’s Teaching Crisis: Sandra Stotsky
Opinion -Last November, the Massachusetts Board of Education unanimously approved new regulations for licensing teachers to practice their profession in the state's K-12 public schools. -
The Defined Contribution Revolution
Opinion -An idea that has greatly benefitted over 55 million Americans holding 401(k) retirement plans may also be the best idea for making health insurance more available and affordable. That idea is "defined contributions. -
Doctors Long for Simple Care, Too
Opinion -Let's not kid ourselves. Becoming a physician today requires more than altruism. It requires courage. Thanks to the shift from fee-for-service care to third-party insurance, caring for patients has become a day-to-day battle with managed care companies. -
IRS Raises Questions as Charter Schools Mature
Opinion -After almost a decade of growth, the charter school movement has produced more than 2,000 new public schools across the country that serve more than a half-million students. -
Despite Barriers, ‘Edupreneurs’ Flood into Education Marketplace
Opinion -A new study from the Cato Institute reports that large numbers of education companies, or "edupreneurs," are entering the education marketplace with creative, cost-efficient products and services for students of all ages. -
Boehner to Lead House Education Committee
Opinion -When the House of Representatives' Republican leadership chose Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio) to head the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the 107th Congress, they had done their homework. -
Buses Advertise the Failure of DC Schools
Opinion -The message that went rolling through the streets of Washington, DC in the first days of the New Year was hardly one to inspire confidence in the capital city's public schools. -
Bush Plan ‘a Good Start,’ But Not Enough, Says Nobel
Opinion -Nobel Learning Communities, Inc., the nation's largest operator of private schools, welcomed President George W. Bush's education reform package as a strong beginning to a reform of the U.S. public school system . . . -
FDA’s Pediatric Rule Hurts Public Health
Opinion -A physicians' association and two public interest groups filed suit in federal court, challenging the validity of the Food and Drug Administration's "Pediatric Rule. -
Fee-for-service Health Care Makes a Comeback
Opinion -Remember when you could choose to go to any doctor, pay a reasonable fee for your medical service, and not worry about co-pays, deductibles, and some distant stranger authorizing or denying the care prescribed by your physician? -
Heartland science director teams with McGraw-Hill
Opinion -Heartland Institute Science Director, and Environment & Climate News managing editor, Jay Lehr was selected by McGraw-Hill publishers in 1997 to produce a new Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health & Technology for the twenty-first century. -
Heartland to direct production of water encyclopedia
Opinion -John Wiley & Sons, one of the world's leading publishers of science and technical books, has selected Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, to serve as editor-in-chief of a four-volume Encyclopedia of Water -
Is smart growth anti-poor and anti-black?
Opinion -The national movement to combat the alleged ills of urban sprawl is guilty of false advertising. -
Market-based Reforms Get Post-Election Boost
Opinion -As the Clinton administration departed Washington and George W. Bush moved in, health care reform measures attracted some much-needed public policy attention. -
New Education Journal Launched
Opinion -On the last page of the first issue of the new education journal/magazine Education Matters is a feature called "Education Matters to Me," where an individual voice cuts through all the debate and research on vouchers with a reminder that public policy -
Politics threatens Appalachian Trail
Opinion -Fox News recently reported a conflict between a granite quarry and hikers on a stretch of the Appalachian Trail in western North Carolina. -
Seven myths about sprawl
Opinion -American newspapers print articles on the perils of low-density suburbs--"sprawl"--almost every day, and urge instead "smart growth," meaning higher densities and mixed-use developments. -
Species extinctions may be due to disease, not man
Opinion -"Biologists usually blame pollution and predation for species extinction, but the real culprits may be humans spreading disease, according to the New Scientist. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -Arizona New Rorschach Test? Philip Morris Cos. have sent 13 million free illustrated book jackets to schools nationwide. -
The Lone Mountain Compact
Opinion -The phenomenon of urban sprawl has become a major controversy throughout the United States. The Political Economy Research Center (PERC) recently brought a number of scholars and writers to the Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky, Montana to address the issue. -
Timber giant and snowmobile groups sue over roadless plan
Opinion -Several snowmobile groups and a giant timber company sued the federal government in early January, seeking to overturn the controversial roadless forest initiative signed by then-President Bill Clinton the week before. -
Vermont Suffers Under Health Insurance Illusion
Opinion -Calvin Coolidge once said, “Laws do not make reforms, reforms make laws. We cannot look to government. We must look to ourselves.” He easily could have been talking about health care reform in Vermont.