The problem isn’t that old folks get too much money from government — it’s that young families get too little. Recalling the GI Bill and the politics of generational solidarity.
Health & Social Policy
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
One Pill Makes You Larger
The development of human growth hormone and antidepressants like Prozac has already begun to blur the line between “treating” an illness and “enhancing” an otherwise already healthy person, making it difficult for insurance companies to know how and what to pay for.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Grassroots Medicine
The federal government has agreed to study the medicinal use of marijuana. But there’s already lots of evidence that the administration seems to be doing its best to ignore.
Posted inEconomic Policy
State of the Debate: Tough Guys
William Bennett, John DiIulio, and John Walters say it’s time liberals faced the hard facts about crime. Maybe they should heed their own advice.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Saving Their Assets: How to Stop Plunder at Blue Cross and Other Nonprofits
Huge nonprofit corporations are now being converted to for-profit companies, to the immense benefit of corporate insiders. But they can’t take charitable assets with them. A victory in California shows what the public should insist upon.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
State of the Debate: Dr. Business
A new book by a Harvard Business School professor who wants to reorganize medicine into “focused factories” shows just how scary the medical-industrial complex might become.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Ultimate Self-Referral: Health Care Reform, AMA-Style
Why did the American Medical Association support Newt Gingrich’s proposals on Medicare? Not for the reasons the media suggested.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Bedside Manna
Marcus Welby was a myth; doctors have always cared about money. But the for-profit managed care industry makes no pretense: It’s offering physicians money to make decisions that are plainly not in the interests of patients.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Hidden Paradox of Welfare Reform
If former welfare beneficiaries can get jobs, they’ll be better off, right? Not necessarily. Because their costs will be higher, particularly for child care and health care, they may earn more yet do worse.
