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October 10, 2007
State Issues

Regarding Eugene Robinson's Oct. 5 column, "Bush's Veto Lies," on the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Mr. Robinson wrote that the authorization to cover children in families in New York earning up to $83,000 "is not in the bill...

 




September 25, 2007
State Issues

The State Children's Health Insurance Program was designed to cover children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private coverage. Numerous opinion polls show that Americans support continuing the program...




September 21, 2007
Health Insurance

Senator Hillary Clinton's release of her universal health coverage plan dominated the news this week, with journalists and policy experts dissecting the 10-page outline of policy ideas she offered. Our articles section below has several links, including...




September 14, 2007

John Stossel?s latest special, ?Whose Body Is It Anyway? Sick in America? features a range of examples and interviews with experts, including Galen?s Grace-Marie Turner, to counter Michael Moore?s documentary ?SiCKO? and comes to a very different conclusi...




September 13, 2007
Health Insurance

Premiums for job-based health insurance increased by 6.1% this year, the lowest rate of increase since 1999, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported this week. Also, the number of firms offering high-deductible plans increased by nearly 30%, and premiums...




September 8, 2007
Prescription Drugs

For most of the past twenty years, teen suicide rates have fallen quite consistently. Many credit the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a commonly-prescribed class of anti-depressants, for this drop. But in 2004...




September 7, 2007
Health Insurance

Over the weekend, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he wants to make preventive care mandatory in his mandatory health insurance system. Once you turn over your freedom to the government, the intrusion clearly doesn't stop. If you are ...




September 5, 2007
State Issues

Congress and the White House are poised for a showdown over reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program before the program expires on September 30, with both houses having passed legislation that the president has vowed to veto...




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