Today, Secretary of Health & Human Services Leavitt and Director of National Economic Council Hubbard elaborated the President's proposal for a health coverage tax credit.  Meanwhile, the New York Times is stuck in a rut on health policy.

America's Physicians Attack Patient Choice

While a government-run hospital in LA kills a patient, Michael Moore advocates the government take-over all hospitals.

On May 2, 2007, PointofLaw contributor Ted Frank posted comments regarding our most recent PRI study Jackpot Justice. The following is our point-by-point response to Mr. Frank's comments.

Why do some U.S. politicians still want to steal drugmakers' intellectual property?

Google’s mapping service just introduced a new feature called “Street View,” offering detailed photos of addresses in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami. While the company might not be breaking any privacy laws, the service raises concerns that need to be addressed.

The photographs are not live and were taken from a device with multiple cameras attached to a car that drove down each available street. The problem for some is that the cameras took photos of people not expecting to be photographed and broadcast across the Net. There are photos of women sunbathing at Stanford University, a man caught urinating in San Bruno, Calif., and a very clear picture of a woman’s thong underwear as she was getting into her truck.

Google argues that the photos are “no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street.” That’s true if you can see the image for a few minutes and then it disappears, or if it is a random photo from a camera phone posted online. However, that’s not how it works.

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Here is the Google Street view of PRI's SF office. 

Despite hitting Gov. Schwarzenegger's veto last year, state senator Sheila Kuehl re-introduced SB-840, her bill to impose government monopoly health care in California, in February. 

Prof. Paul Krugman, Disinformationist-in-Chief of U.S. health care, gives Sen. Obama lukewarm praise, and Gov. Schwarzenegger something to think about....

Only 37% of eligible Hawaiians have enrolled in state's price contolled Rx scheme

"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of the Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had, and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change."