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Employer Mandate Costs Small Businesses
Opinion -Health policy experts outlined a laundry list of problems with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) plan to insure all state residents after he announced the proposal in his State of the State Address on January 8. -
Massachusetts Insurers Set Out to Enroll Working Poor
Opinion -On January 2, Massachusetts kicked off the second wave of enrollment for its individual health insurance mandate, signed into law last April by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R). -
What Should Government Do to Reduce Obesity?
Opinion -Over the past few years, obesity has become a prominent issue, prompting increasing numbers of organizations, interest groups, and government officials to propose ways of dealing with the "epidemic. -
FDA Reform Would Speed Rx Drug Availability
Opinion -The history of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of relentless growth in regulatory power. Growth spurts typically occur on the heels of well-publicized safety issues, such as the recent Vioxx situation. -
Market Factors Are Best Regulator of Drug Prices
Opinion -A timely question, given the new Medicare drug benefit launched last year, is how increasing insurance coverage is likely to affect innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. -
Chicago Falls Short of Touted 2001 Renewable Fuels Pledge
Opinion -After pledging in 2001 that his city government would run on 20 percent renewable power by 2006, the end of the year showed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) could not fulfill his pledge to run the city on the more expensive fuel sources. -
Farmers, Cattlemen Challenge New EPA Soot Rules
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Schwarzenegger Plan Would Drive Up Costs: Experts
Opinion -Once they'd had a few days to analyze the details of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) proposal to legislate health insurance for all California residents, health policy experts from coast to coast responded with horror. -
Insurance Mandates Aren’t the Answer to Uninsured
Opinion -In an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun a few months ago, I questioned Maryland legislators' interest in mandating individual health insurance coverage. -
Access to Innovations Is Major Patient Concern
Opinion -A cancer patient sees a news report on the TV, or on the Internet, about a new treatment technology. She calls her oncologist, hoping to access the technology immediately. -
Father of Green Revolution Receives Top Civilian Honor
Opinion -Scientist Norman Borlaug received the nation's highest civilian honor--the Congressional Gold Medal--on December 6, 2006, making him one of only 300 or so people who have received the medal since it was first given to George Washington in 1776. -
Careful Review of Science Refutes Global Warming Myths
Opinion -Review of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years By S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 260 pages, $24.95, ISBN 0742551172 With their new book, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. -
GM Introduces High-Performance Electric Concept Car
Opinion -Placing itself in strong position to take advantage of the post-gasoline automobile age that it believes is just around the corner, General Motors has unveiled a high-performance electric car that it anticipates will be ready for production within two or -
Expert Outlines Keys to Success in Alternative Certification
Opinion -During the past 15 years, most states have created alternate pathways to K-12 teaching that do not oblige would-be teachers to have an undergraduate degree in education. Approximately one-third of new teachers each year in U.S. -
Ohio Passes Scholarship Bill, Scuttles Another
Opinion -In the closing hours of the 2005-2006 session of the Ohio General Assembly, more students in poorly performing schools gained access to expanded educational choices. -
Studies Prompted Policy Change
Opinion -Two reports issued by the New Teacher Project (NTP)--a national nonprofit group working to increase the number of highly qualified people entering the teaching field--served as the genesis of California S.B. 1655, according to state Sen. -
Innovative Plan Unites Pharmacists and Employers Against Diabetes
Opinion -An employee of the City of Charleston, South Carolina left work early one day last spring because he didn't feel well. On his way home, he blacked out at the wheel and had a car accident. -
Consumers Need Education on Health Care Costs: Survey
Opinion -A survey released in late November reveals consumers know little about health care costs, but that's information they'll need if consumer-driven health care plans are to succeed at lowering costs and premiums, analysts say. -
DDT Did Not Harm Eagles
Opinion -While it is wonderful that the bald eagle will be taken off the Endangered Species list, many media reports repeated the fiction that the ban on DDT use in the U.S. was a major factor in the species' recovery. -
Lawsuit Seeks to Prolong 40-Year Delay on Maryland Highway
Opinion -Forty-plus years of delays in building a vital highway connector between I-270 and I-95 in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland should be extended because government officials failed to sufficiently assess more environment-friendly -
School Board Member: ‘We Betrayed the Public Trust’
Opinion -Elgin, Illinois School District U46 board member Daniel Rich resigned January 22, citing what he considered outrageous salary demands from U46 Superintendent Connie Neale and a generous response by the U46 board. -
Arizona Continues Reform Efforts
Opinion -For many years in Arizona, policymakers have been working to find the best way to expand school choice options to reach out to the neediest children and turn their lives around. -
Africans Urge Congress to Fulfill DDT Promise to Fight Malaria
Opinion -Africa Fighting Malaria, a public policy organization dedicated to educating people about the scourge of malaria, submitted a letter on January 22 to U.S. Sens. Robert C. -
Alar: The Great Apple Scare
Opinion -This article is the ninth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam: A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, excerpted and abridged by Jay Lehr.
