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Monday, March 17, 2008Successful Six in UtahFiled As: GeneralUtah residents, take heart! Your legislature is out of session. (If that doesn't ring a bell, click here .) The Sutherland Institute reports on the developments of this year's session. It says that six of the bills passed by the ... more »»
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Monday, March 17, 2008Increasing Taxes for Additional Health Funding Would Hurt Maine FamiliesBy J. Scott MoodyFiled As: Health CareTarren Bragdon, chief executive officer of The Maine Heritage Policy Center, testified before the Maine Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services on March 13, 2008 and presented reasons to oppose additional funding to prop up the failing Dirigo ... more »»
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Monday, March 17, 2008Stateline: Socialized Medicine = Fiscally ConservativeBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareStateline.org has an interesting article on health care funding in the states. The headline reads "On health care, govs are tightening belts." Here are some examples of "belt-tightening":
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Monday, March 17, 2008Why Aren't You Dead?By John GoodmanFiled As: Health CareThink about the last time you ate out. Did you get mad cow disease? E. coli? Cholera? Some other form of food poisoning? No? Well, why not? The spate of unsafe toys, tainted drugs and unhealthy food stuffs appearing over the past 12 months - especially imports from China - prompts one to ask: Why do ... more »»
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Monday, March 17, 2008Private Sector Initiative to Improve Diabetic HealthFiled As: Health CareA gold standard in health policy is finding ways to improve care, save money, and enlist patients in better managing their chronic conditions. And we have new evidence of the success of a program that is doing just that. The more »»
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Friday, March 14, 2008Unionized ParenthoodFiled As: Budget and Tax, GeneralKids need parents, and children in need of foster care need a special kind of adult who can guide them, if not into adulthood, at least for a time in their oft-troubled lives. As a society, we deal with foster children through the political process, which ... has its problems. Writing for the ... more »»
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Friday, March 14, 2008Do Training Programs Pay for Themselves?Filed As: Budget and TaxDo all forms of taxpayer funding for education have a net economic benefit? Not exactly. The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs looks at the state's CareerTech ... more »»
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Thursday, March 13, 2008Trans Fat Ban Marches ForwardMaryland, Boston moving forward with bans By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareBoston's health care commission voted to ban trans fats from city restaurants, stores, schools, and hospitals. In another bastion of "progressive" thinking to the south, Maryland legislators more »»
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Thursday, March 13, 2008Iowa Moving Towards Universal CoverageFails to provide funds for the program, though By Marc KilmerFiled As: Health CareThe Iowa House of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of a plan to extend state insurance coverage to all children in the state by 2011. It is part of a plan to cover everyone in the state by ... more »»
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Thursday, March 13, 2008WSJ Poll on Health CareClinton Wins; 60% say its the goverment's duty By Liberty is for me .Filed As: Health CareI thought the WSJ would have better news for me today but it didn't. A poll conducted during March 6 - 10th shows the following:
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