Category: Health

Message to Congress on Medicare: Don’t Rush to Put a Legislative Turkey on America’s Thanksgiving Table

Press Release /
Congress is rushing votes on the just-released Medicare conference report too swiftly and risks taking an action it will later regret, warns The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think-tank. "The Medicare conference report reconciled, with significant alterations, ...
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Medicare: It’s About the Future, Stupid! by Edmund F. Haislmaier

National Policy Analysis #498 /
Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle has identified with pinpoint accuracy the key stumbling block in the pending Medicare legislation. He repeated that Democrats want to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, but added: "if we're going to change the character ...
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Gingrich Recommends ‘Transformation’ of Medicare

ConservativeBlog.org /
In this CNSNews.com story by Jeff Johnson, former Speaker Newt Gingrich explains -- in full-blown Gingrichian style -- why Medicare should be transformed (not reformed, he says, transformed) from the current top-down federally controlled system to something based on the ...
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Dioxin Shenanigans: Why the is EPA Afraid of Independent Peer Review?

National Policy Analysis #492 /
If he makes it past a bruising Senate confirmation process, Utah Governor and EPA Administrator-designate Mike Leavitt will soon face an even bigger challenge. How does he deal with an entrenched EPA bureaucracy that - if it can get away ...
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Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It

National Policy Analysis #496 /
The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...
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An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards, by Amy Ridenour and David Ridenour

National Policy Analysis #483 /
Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, a father of two, suffered head injuries in an auto accident. He ...
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When It Comes to Prescription Drugs, What Does “Safe” Mean? by Edmund F. Haislmaier

National Policy Analysis #486 /
Pending legislation to add a drug benefit to Medicare and make it easier to import prescription drugs from other countries has focused attention on something most of us take for granted - the safety of the drugs we consume. We ...
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Doctors Sued for Helping Woman

Legal Brief /
Several doctors in California were sued because two adult women saw their mother being rushed to emergency surgery. The women sued for "emotional distress." They apparently thought doctors should have diverted some of the time they were spending saving their ...
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Doctors, Not Lawyers, Should Treat Mental Illness

Legal Brief /
The nation's top psychiatrists are struggling with a daunting dilemma these days. At issue: allegations that new drugs proving effective for schizophrenia might contribute to the risk of diabetes and the desire of some lawyers to sue "deep-pockets" drug manufacturers ...
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Reducing Tobacco Risks With Smokeless Tobacco, by James P. Gelfand

National Policy Analysis #479 /
Despite the Surgeon General's warning, anti-smoking campaigns, anti-smoking regulations and over 440,000 smoking-related American deaths annually,1 approximately a quarter of American adults still smoke cigarettes. For approximately 40 percent of them, an addiction to nicotine keeps them puffing.2 Their addictions ...
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