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The Health-Care Cost Crisis Is All Too Real
Submitted on 11.26.2007
John R. Graham in "The Health Cost Myth" (op-ed, Nov. 13) sees no problem with our rising health costs because our economic productivity is very high and, after paying for health care, we still have on average more money left per capita in our economy than other countries.
Don't Let Patent Regs Kill Golden Goose
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 11.20.2007
Google has achieved wild success and cultural notoriety by operating under the corporate mantra "Don't be evil." But when it comes to patent reforms currently under consideration in Congress, Google — along with several other tech heavyweights — seems to be straying from the company line.
Experts Praise SCHIP Veto
Submitted on 11.16.2007
Until now, the federal government has not taken action against states which have enrolled middle-class children in SCHIP instead of lower-income kids.
RomneyCare Revisited
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 11.15.2007
It’s one thing to pass a law, hold a press conference, and boldly declare to have solved an intractable public policy problem, such as the lack of universal health insurance. It’s quite another to actually have the so-called solution deliver as promised.
Higher Incomes Allow U.S. Residents To Spend More On Health Care, According To Opinion Piece
Submitted on 11.14.2007
"America's high productivity gives [it] the ability to spend more on health care, especially the latest treatments and technologies, than other developed nations that labor under forms of socialized health care," John Graham, director of health care studies at the Pacific Research Institute, writes in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
The Health Cost Myth
Submitted by John R. Graham on 11.13.2007
'As major employers, we are engaging in one of the most crucial domestic policy debates of our time -- fixing our nation's health-care crisis, reducing out of control costs, and ensuring every American has affordable health care," said CEO Steve Burd of Safeway, a supermarket chain, earlier this year.
How Consumer-Directed Health Care Will Benefit Hawaii
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 11.8.2007
Proposals for universal insurance dominate the debate over health care, but many of them would make problems worse with expensive mandates and bureaucratic programs. The state of Hawaii is a prime example.
Second opinion?
Submitted by Mike Grimsley on 11.3.2007
With the release of Michael Moore's "Sicko," a documentary on the U.S. health care system, and the upcoming election hot topic of health care reform, it's time for voters to get an education on the current status of health care.
Why Fat Laws Fail
Submitted by Diana M. Ernst on 11.2.2007
In the last decade, California governors have signed a number of bills designed to keep California's kids lean and healthy. Jay Leno dubbed such measures the "No Child Left With a Big Behind Act," but their failure is no laughing matter.
Confronting Childhood Obesity
Submitted on 11.1.2007
There is no better demonstration of the demonstration of the historically unprecedented prosperity of the United States than that a major health concern of its poorest citizens is obesity.
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