T here’s a lot of talk about Crack these days but not much about the house that Crack lives in. So we the inmates of the Clark County Jail will take you on a tour of the Crack House himself. So come on up here on the porch of this old house, it sure ain’t […]
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The Other Drug War
Universal health care reform demands that we finally control skyrocketing drug prices.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Constitutional Litmus Test
Justice may be blind, but in appointing justices Clinton needs to be far-sighted.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Political Court
After a decade of court-packing, now is no time to pretend the courts are apolitical.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Detoxifying the Debate
A s an art form, caricature is fun. The caricature of ideas, however, does not have the same appeal. And when the caricaturists seek to arouse fears and anxieties by distorting unfamiliar ideas into misshapen and threatening images of insidious evil and betrayal, they do public debate and even their own case a great disservice. […]
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When Patients Go To Market: The Workings of Managed Competition
A fter a generation of deadlock, there is finally a broad consensus that the health system is broken, and a rare political opportunity to fix it. The present system manages to be simultaneously inflationalry, arbitrary, cumbersome for providers, and unreliable for consumers. But despite the opportunity for reform, we are on the verge of a […]
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Mangled Competition
Despite a once-in-a-generation opportunity, the Clintons are poised to slam the door on single payer national health insurance and embrace a corporate welfare approach with the oxymoronic name: “Managed Competition.” Managed Competition would: Use tax penalties to push all but the wealthy into stripped down, basic group health plans. Deprive most patients of the right […]
Posted inEducation in America
The Myth of Public School Failure
Public schools are actually performing remarkably well. What they need is not radical reform but more support.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Damaged Goods: Before Reinventing Government, Clinton Needs to Repair It
T he debris of Reaganism is scattered across Bill Clinton’s domestic agenda: Environmentalism may be slow to take hold at the Interior Department because friends of industry have “burrowed in” to the bureaucracy. Sound industrial policy will call for better information than the Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission have to offer. Crafting welfare reform […]
