Obama's Health Beast Squashes State Experiments
Amity Shlaes says that the health care bill undermines important state-level experiments in health care reform.
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Amity Shlaes says that the health care bill undermines important state-level experiments in health care reform.
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Max Boot argues that cost of the U.S. health care plan is incompatible with maintenance of the United States' superpower status.
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David Brooks reflects on the passage of health care reform as the end of the century-long welfare project and the beginning of the task of saving the country from fiscal ruin.
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In a New York Times op-ed, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, argues that information claiming the health care bill will save $138 billion dollars is skewed by accounting gimmickry and budgetary games, and laying out his own math, contends the reforms will instead raise deficits by $562 billion.
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The "green revolution" dramatically boosted crop yields throughout the world, but it also bred overconfidence and complacency.
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As the U.S. Senate debates the healthcare overhaul, experts are divided on whether proposed legislation would stifle U.S. economic and business competitiveness.
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Laurie Garrett and Dana March point out that vaccinations against influenza do not mrerely protect the population from the virus itself but that they have significant long term health benefits that should not be ignored.
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Session I of the Council On Foreign Relations Symposium Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy. Subject: The Science
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Session II of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy. Subject: Economic Aspects of Pandemic Influenza
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Session III of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics And Foreign Policy. Subject: Foreign Policy
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"The world community is at a crucial juncture" in their implementation of better health coverage, write Laurie Garrett, A. Mushtaque Chowdhury and Ariel Pablos-Méndez.
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Michael J. Gerson argues, "after hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, Barack Obama hasn't yet gotten around to his top legislative priority: health-care reform."
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Listen to Laurie A. Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, discuss her recent report, "The Future of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Advancing Global Health in the U.S. Development Agenda" as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
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To understand Islamists' appeal, consider basic needs, says Parag Khanna.
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