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Michael Moore Confirms that Government Health Care is Sicko
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
6.20.2007
Michael Moore showed up in Sacramento last week to promote his film Sicko. Senator Sheila Kuehl hailed Moore as a prophet of truth to the American people but the filmmaker is so mired in his own health hysterics that he regularly contradicts himself.
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California Beach Report Card Requires Deeper Scrutiny
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
6.19.2007
On May 23, the Heal the Bay organization released their 17th annual “Beach Report Card,” summarizing the results of water-quality monitoring on California’s beaches (click here). The majority received good marks, but the organization noted a few areas for improvement. That will require understanding the limitations of the report's data, and any measures taken to address the problems need to consider the quality of the original data.
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The Problem With Carbon Dioxide Regulation
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
6.15.2007
On April 2, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the “greenhouse gases” linked to global climate change. Some journalists and talking heads wrongly construed this as a requirement that the EPA regulate CO2 emissions.
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NASA Knows Best?
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
6.13.2007
Last week in Washington, D.C., Congress began debate over global warming legislation that would override state laws, including California's new measure to lower emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. This debate, and all others over global warming, should reference a recent exchange on the subject.
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America's Consumers Will Beat Government to (Health) IT
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
6.12.2007
President Bush established a Health IT (Health Information Technology) initiative in 2003 to make our paper-clogged health-care system more efficient through the use of computers.1 The government has spent more than $1 billion to expand health information technology since then, but the private sector has recently taken impressive strides to streamline Health IT on its own.
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U.S. Index of Health Ownership
PRI Study
By: John R. Graham
6.7.2007
Who owns your health care? That should not be a difficult question to answer. Surely, in the United States, every American owns his own health care. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Much of the public debate about our health-care “crisis” actually revolves around this very issue. When we look at the choices we make—how to earn a living, what kind of a home to buy for our family, what to do with our spare time—we have more freedom than anyone else in the world.
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Pelosi’s Preschool Amnesia
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.6.2007
Does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remember what happened in the 2006 elections? She represents the people’s republic of San Francisco, but she must recall that the rest of California overwhelmingly rejected ex-actor/director Rob Reiner’s government-run universal preschool initiative last June. Yet, at her recent children’s summit, Pelosi ushered in a parade of notables advocating for more government preschool.
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Ladies, take control of your health care
Contrarian
By: Diana M. Ernst
6.5.2007
The much-politicized consumer-directed health care (CDHC) initiative has recently taken heat from critics calling it uncompassionate, unfair, and even sexist. See, for example, “Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, March 15. The new free-market approach seeks to lower costs by giving individuals more financial freedom and control of their health care, but Dr. Stephie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein are trying to scare women away from it.
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