HEALTH CARE & RETIREMENT ARCHIVE: 1996-2003
- Blog: Social Security Reform and the Bush Presidency
- Press Release: "Snake Oil" Medicare Reform Criticized; Called "Legislative Malpractice" By Black Leader
- Medicare Perspective Index (With a Nod to Harper's Index) by Edmund F. Haislmaier (PDF file)
- Press Release: Group Releases "Medicare Perspective Index" to Shed Light on Prescription Drug Debate: Irreverent List of Factoids a Grim Parody of Harper's Index -- But a Lot More Expensive
- Press Release: Message to Congress on Medicare: Don't Rush to Put a Legislative Turkey on America's Thanksgiving Table
- National Policy Analysis: Medicare: It's About the Future, Stupid! by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- National Policy Analysis: Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: When It Comes to Prescription Drugs, What Does "Safe" Mean? by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- National Policy Analysis: An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards, by Amy Ridenour and David Ridenour
- Press Release: It is Time for the People's Media -- Talk Radio, the Internet, Blogs and Editorial Pages -- to Force a Permanent Solution to the Asbestos Crisis; Congress Must Act Before Special Interest Lobbying Scuttles Plan to Compensate the Sick While Ending Bankruptcies and Job Losses
- National Policy Analysis: Reducing Tobacco Risks With Smokeless Tobacco, by James A. Gelfand
- Legal Briefs: Why Are Medical Costs So High? Courtrooms Are a Culprit; Legal Reform is a Patient Issue - August 15, 2003
- Blog: Social Security and Medicare: Technically Bankrupt in Five Years
- Legal Briefs: Doctors, Not Lawyers, Should Treat Mental Illness; Doctors Sued for Helping Woman - August 1, 2003
- Press Release: House to Vote on Prescription Drug Reimportation - Measure One of the More Divisive in Recent Memory
- National Policy Analysis: Dying for a Discount: The Dangers in Importing Drugs, by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- Blog: Following in the Footsteps of Richard M. Nixon, and Heading Left, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Really Strange Bedfellows: The Odd Alliance Promoting Drug Re-Importation, by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- National Policy Analysis: Inhofe Makes "Chemical Security" From Terrorists a Top Priority, by Bonner Cohen
- Legal Briefs: The Medical Liability Crisis Affects Us All - July 15, 2003
- National Policy Analysis: A Modest Suggestion for Improving Government Oversight, by Amy Ridenour
- Press Release: Mr. President: Your Desire for Bill-Signing Ceremony on Medicare's 35th Anniversary Isn't Worth Turning the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit into a Political and Policy Disaster
- Legal Briefs: Thanks in Part to Lawsuits, Millions Lack Health Insurance - June 30, 2003
- Talking Points: A Medicare Drug Benefit: If Its Important Enough to Do, It's Important Enough to Do Properly
- "Prescription Drugs Are Only One Reason Why Medicare Needs Reform," Senate Joint Economic Committee, June 17, 2003 (PDF File)
- Legal Briefs: May 15, 2003
- National Policy Analysis: Doctors, Not Lawyers, Should Treat Mental Illness, by Amy Ridenour
- New Visions Commentary: Transplant Details Raise Cruel Questions, by Kimberley Wilson
- National Policy Analysis: A Federal Asbestos Trust Fund: Better for Victims, Better for the Economy, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Hollywood Goes Political Yet Again: "Issues Placement" Strategy Promotes Government-Run Health Care, by David A. Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: The Medical Liability Crisis Affects Us All, by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- 2003 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds (better known as the "2003 Medicare Trustees' Report"), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S. Government Department of Health and Human Services)
- National Policy Analysis: Lawyers in Your Medicine Cabinet May Keep Needed Drugs Out, by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- National Policy Analysis: Profiting From the Work of Others: Why Weakening Prescription Drug Patent Protection is Bad Public Policy, by Eric Peters
- National Policy Analysis: In Case of the Diluting Druggist, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, by Horace Cooper
- National Policy Analysis: Low Vaccination Rates for Deadly Diseases Put Black School Children at Serious Risk, by Beverly M. Gaines, M.D.
- Talking Points: Higher Prices Aren't to Blame for Increased Drug Spending
- Talking Points: Do Americans Spend too Much on Prescription Drugs?
- Talking Points: More Money Won't Cure Nationalized Health Care
- Talking Points: Waiting for Medical Care in Canada
- Talking Points: Why National Health Insurance Means Waiting for Care
- Talking Points: Facts about the Uninsured - Part II
- Talking Points: Facts about the Uninsured - Part I
- National Policy Analysis: The Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times, Part I: DDT, by Adam J. Lieberman
- National Policy Analysis: A Ban on Embryonic Cloning: Would It Be Constitutional? by Amy Ridenour
- Scoop #221
- National Policy Analysis: They Also Serve: Terrorists Confronted by the Patriotic Fervor of a Free Market, by Amy Ridenour
- New Visions Commentary: Should African-Americans Favor Privatizing Social Security? by Dr. B.B. Robinson
- National Policy Analysis: Patients' Bill of Rights Could Provide Patients With a Bigger Health Care Bill, by Syd Gernstein
- National Policy Analysis: Medicare: An Alphabet Soup of Programs Lacking Proper Nutrition For Patients, by David Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Bush's Rx Drug Proposal Will Help Seniors without Expanding the Federal Bureaucracy, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Fathers Count, Yet Many Count Them Out, by Amy Ridenour
- Scoop #216
- New Visions Commentary: Let's See What Works, by Jackie Cissell
- New Visions Commentary: Government Attack on Dietary Supplements Lean on Facts, by Council Nedd
- Scoop #214
- Press Release: Congressman Nick Smith to Speak at Press Conference Praising Biotechnology and Criticizing Unsound Science of Biotechnology Critics
- Press Release: Public Seeks Assurances that USDA's Proposed Organic Rule Not Misleading; Widespread Concern that Organic Labeling Will Discriminate Against Conventional Farming Practices Including Agricultural Biotechnology
- National Policy Analysis: Organically-Grown Food Not Necessarily Better For You, by John Carlisle
- National Policy Analysis: Biotechnology: Putting an End to World Hunger, by Michael Centrone
- New Visions Commentary: If They Were Right About That, What About..., by Eddie Huff
- Press Release: National Center Releases New Poll Showing that U.S.D.A. Organic Food Labels Are Misleading; Proposed organic seal conveys false information to consumers; Over 70 percent of Americans want clarification on organic labels
- Press Release: Black Network Demands Social Security Reform; Bipartisan Support for Private Investment of Payroll Taxes Applauded
- National Policy Analysis: A Canadian Horror Story: Seniors Suffer When Governments Curb Flow of Advanced Drugs to Patients, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Congressional Research Service Reports Often Written To Reflect Lawmaker's Bias, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Expanding Rx Drug Coverage for Seniors is a Tailor-Made Issue for Republicans, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Tastes Great, Less Filling: New Bioengineered Foods Bring Benefits to Consumers, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: No Pleasing Environmentalists, by John Carlisle
- Press Release: Anti-Biotechnology Policies Backed by Some Seattle Protesters Could Cause Preventable Starvation in the Developing World
- Press Release: Activists Attack Bio-Engineered Food Despite Benefits to the Poor and the Sick; Environmental Groups Join in Attack on Technology that Aids the Environment
- National Policy Analysis: Is Summertime Smog an Increasing Threat to Public Health? by David Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: The Future of Breast Implant Litigation May Be a Bust for Trial Lawyers, by Amy Ridenour
- New Visions Commentary: Violence in America, by Mike Green
- Press Release: Black Investing Up, Survey Says Blacks Consider Saving Their #1 Priority
- National Policy Analysis: Be Thankful for Dads, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform Would Give More Americans the Benefits of Stock Investing, by Amy Ridenour
- New Visions Commentary: Social Security is Unfair to Black Americans, by John Meredith
- New Visions Commentary: Black Americans Would Benefit From Private Social Security Accounts, by Horace Cooper
- Press Release: Free Market Social Security Reform Would Benefit Minorities
- National Policy Analysis: Crazy Court Cases Show: Bad Science Makes Bad Law, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: To Save Lives, End Business As Usual at the FDA, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: The Time is Now for Social Security Privatization, by Glen Turpening
- National Policy Analysis: Medicare's 11th Hour? What's Next? by Glen Turpening
- Press Release: Americans 65 and Older Have the Same Civil Rights as Younger Americans, Group Says; Section 4507 of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act Robs Seniors of the Their Right to See the Doctor They Choose
- Press Release: Black Leadership Drops the Ball on Minority AIDS Epidemic
- National Policy Analysis: Save Social Security: Bring Back the Balanced Budget Amendment, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Maryland's Stack-the-Deck Legal Approach is Not in Taxpayers' Best Interest, by Amy Ridenour
- Reference Copy: Full text of Tobacco Industry-State Attorneys General Settlement
- Full Text: Social Security Act of 1935
- White Paper: Health Care Financing Administration on Medicare Private Contracting
- New Visions Commentary: How Social Security Shortchanges Black Americans, by Deroy Murdock
- New Visions Commentary: Is UNICEF Aiding AIDS?
by Kevin Pritchett
- Letter: American Medical Association Opposing Partial-Birth Abortion
- National Policy Analysis: Should Public Health Be Sacrificed At the Altar of Political Correctness? by Roderick Conrad
- National Policy Analysis: This New Crusade Would Help Mrs. Clinton Regain Her Popularity, by Amy Ridenour
- National Policy Analysis: Reforming Social Security May Be (Relatively) Easy After All, by Amy Ridenour
- Speech: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on the Future of Social Security
- National Policy Analysis: Giving Back Gained Ground: The Clinton Administration and the War on Drugs, by Nate Stewart
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