Opinion
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THE WHITE HOUSE March 13, 2001
Opinion -Thank you for your letter of March 6, 2001, asking for the Administration's views on global climate change, in particular the Kyoto Protocol and efforts to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. -
Homeschooler or Truant?
Opinion -As part of a nationwide effort to combat truancy, a local government official in Somerset, England, has come up with an easy way for police officers to distinguish between homeschoolers and truants: Let the homeschoolers register with the local -
Life-saving chemical escapes United Nations ban
Opinion -An international coalition of public health and advocacy groups applauded the United Nations' recent vote against erecting a global ban on the pesticide DDT. "This decision is a great victory for public health," said Dr. -
Is the DDT ban intended to control global population?
Opinion -The number of malaria cases in Sri Lanka plummeted from 2.8 million in 1948 to just 17 in 1963, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development. In India, deaths from malaria fell from 750,000 per year to 1,500 a year over that period. -
Low-dose radiation fears unfounded
Opinion -In the January 2001 issue of Environment & Climate News, Herbert Inhaber made an excellent case for the future acceleration of our dependence on nuclear energy. -
Legislators Cautioned on Vaccine Authority Proposal
Opinion -Legislation proposed by the only physician-member of the Minnesota state legislature has raised red flags among some vaccine and health policy groups. Rep. Richard Mulder, M.D. -
Australia and the future of coal
Opinion -On a recent trip with family and friends, I had the pleasure of traveling through Australia . . . and learning that we have much to learn from the Aussies about energy. -
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. -
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.
