Health Care
Health Care
Health-Care Facts and Myths
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
Commentary
Don’t mimic the Massachusetts Way on health care reform
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.), July 6, 2009 In 2006, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was hailed as a visionary for signing one of the most expansive health reform bills in the country. “MassCare” aimed to expand health insurance, achieve universal coverage, and bring down costs through a complicated set of government ...
Commentary
What really works for schools
Philadelphia Daily News (PA), July 6, 2009 WHEN IT comes to time in school, more is not necessarily better, but more of the same is no solution, either (editorial, “24 Minutes to Better Education,” June 26). The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that increasing school options, not seat time, improves student performance. ...
Commentary
Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
Commentary
Coming Soon: The Nightmare From Up There
In his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama counseled Americans to beware “dire warnings about socialized medicine and government takeovers; long lines, and rationed care; decisions made by bureaucrats and not doctors.” Unfortunately for the president, there are a few Cassandras whose warnings are worth heeding. Chief ...
Commentary
ABC Pulls John Stossel’s Canadian Healthcare Piece
John Stossel, ABC News’ co-anchor of “20/20” and a New York Times best-selling author, likes to take a skeptical look at a wide array of issues, but hold the phone on his new healthcare special — it was pulled to make room for yet more coverage of Michael Jackson. Bad ...
Commentary
North Dakota Rejects State Health Expansion
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), July 1, 2009 The North Dakota legislature has rejected a measure to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill would have extended SCHIP eligibility to families making 200 percent of the federal poverty level and would have allowed more than 1,100 ...
Commentary
Fixing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: More money and power—or more competition?
Of all President Obama’s high-profile appointments, Dr. Margaret Hamburg’s nomination as U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner was probably the easiest. Coasting through the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee to an unqualified chorus of praise, the eminently qualified Hamburg takes over an agency that many people ...
Commentary
Restaurant Menu Labeling Mandate Debated
Citing a need to curb childhood obesity, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has signed on as Senate sponsor of a federal bill to require calorie counts on restaurant menus. House Resolution 2426, the Menu Education and Labeling (MEAL) Act, would extend federal food labeling requirements from packaged products to ...
Business & Economics
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
SACRAMENTO – The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRM’s own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the Voters’ Mandate, a June 25 report from the Little Hoover Commission, ...
Health-Care Facts and Myths
Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes separates the fact from the fiction in the all the news on health care.
Don’t mimic the Massachusetts Way on health care reform
The Examiner (Washington, D.C.), July 6, 2009 In 2006, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was hailed as a visionary for signing one of the most expansive health reform bills in the country. “MassCare” aimed to expand health insurance, achieve universal coverage, and bring down costs through a complicated set of government ...
What really works for schools
Philadelphia Daily News (PA), July 6, 2009 WHEN IT comes to time in school, more is not necessarily better, but more of the same is no solution, either (editorial, “24 Minutes to Better Education,” June 26). The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that increasing school options, not seat time, improves student performance. ...
Message to Washington: Biologic Meds Offer Hope to Cancer Patients
Philippine Daily Mirror, July 2, 1009 Hoy en Delaware (Georgetown, DE) , July 21, 2009 Franklin Press (Franklin, NC), July 21, 2009 The Resident (Pawcatuck, CT), July 29, 2009 This year, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. For patients and families alike, a diagnosis is a terrifying ...
Coming Soon: The Nightmare From Up There
In his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama counseled Americans to beware “dire warnings about socialized medicine and government takeovers; long lines, and rationed care; decisions made by bureaucrats and not doctors.” Unfortunately for the president, there are a few Cassandras whose warnings are worth heeding. Chief ...
ABC Pulls John Stossel’s Canadian Healthcare Piece
John Stossel, ABC News’ co-anchor of “20/20” and a New York Times best-selling author, likes to take a skeptical look at a wide array of issues, but hold the phone on his new healthcare special — it was pulled to make room for yet more coverage of Michael Jackson. Bad ...
North Dakota Rejects State Health Expansion
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), July 1, 2009 The North Dakota legislature has rejected a measure to expand eligibility for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill would have extended SCHIP eligibility to families making 200 percent of the federal poverty level and would have allowed more than 1,100 ...
Fixing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: More money and power—or more competition?
Of all President Obama’s high-profile appointments, Dr. Margaret Hamburg’s nomination as U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner was probably the easiest. Coasting through the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee to an unqualified chorus of praise, the eminently qualified Hamburg takes over an agency that many people ...
Restaurant Menu Labeling Mandate Debated
Citing a need to curb childhood obesity, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has signed on as Senate sponsor of a federal bill to require calorie counts on restaurant menus. House Resolution 2426, the Menu Education and Labeling (MEAL) Act, would extend federal food labeling requirements from packaged products to ...
Time to Sunset California’s “Relic” Stem Cell Institute
SACRAMENTO – The governance of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell institute, is inadequate to protect the interests of taxpayers and CIRM’s own goals, according to Stem Cell Research: Strengthening Governance to Further the Voters’ Mandate, a June 25 report from the Little Hoover Commission, ...
