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#312 -- Economic Inequality: Facts, Theory and Significance
#311 -- State Health Care Reform: Key Questions and Answers
#310 -- Does it Pay to Work More?
#309 -- Economic Freedom and the Trade-off between Inequality and Growth
#308 -- Global Warming: Experts' Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts
#307 -- The Bush Capital Gains Tax Cut after Four Years:
More Growth, More Investment, More Revenues
#306 -- A Medicare Reform Proposal Everyone Can Love:
Finding Common Ground among Medicare Reformers
#305 -- Convenient Care and Telemedicine
#304 -- Medical Tourism: Global Competition in Health Care
#303 -- Bad for Species, Bad for People: What’s Wrong with the
Endangered Species Act and How to Fix It
#302 -- Integrated Disability and Retirement Systems in Chile
#301 -- How Much Do Americans Depend on Social Security?
#300 -- Taxing the Poor
#299 -- Medicare: Past, Present and Future
#298 -- Does it Pay to Save?
#297 -- The Rising Burden of Health Spending on Seniors
#296 -- The Market for Medical Care
#295 -- Protecting the Environment Through the Ownership Society — Part II
#294 -- Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution
#293 -- Shopping for Drugs - 2007
#292 -- Taxes and Economic Growth
#291 -- Protecting Property Rights, Preserving Federalism and Saving Wetlands
#290 -- How Generous Are Social Security and Medicare?
#289 -- Wealth, Inheritance and the Estate Tax
#288 -- Opportunities for State Medicaid Reform
#287 -- Workers’ Compensation: Rx for Policy Reform
#286 -- Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like
#285 -- Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts
#284 -- Medicaid Empire: Why New York Spends so much on Health Care for the
Poor and Near Poor and How the System Can Be Reformed
#283 -- Ten Steps to Reforming Baby Boomer Retirement
#282 -- Protecting the Environment Through the Ownership Society Part One
#281 -- Social Security Reform: Responding to the Critics
#280 -- Will the President's Proposal Solve Social Security's Crisis?
#279 -- The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle
#278 -- Living with Global Warming
#277 -- Reforming Social Security: Lessons from Thirty Countries
#276 -- Consumer Driven Health Care: The Changing Role of the Patient
#275 -- Tax and Social Security Reform: Thinking Outside the Box
#274 -- Unemployment Insurance in a Free Society
#273 -- Aging, the World Economy and the Coming Generational Storm
#272 -- Social Security Reform without Illusion: The Five Percent Solution
#271 -- Private Pension Annuities in Chile
#270 -- Shopping for Drugs: 2004
#269 -- The Case against John Kerrys Health Plan
#268 -- Ten Consequences of Economic Freedom
#267 -- The Fatherhood Crisis: Time for a New Look?
#266 -- The 2004 Medicare and Social Security Trustees Reports
#265 -- Who Pays Higher Prices for Prescription Drugs?
#264 -- The Impact of Social Security Reform on Women in Three Countries
#263 -- How Large Is the Federal Governments Debt?
#262 -- Shopping for Drugs
#261 -- Reforming Medicare
#260 -- Does It Pay Both Spouses to Work?
#259 -- Insuring the Uninsured through Association Health Plans
#258 -- Does It Pay to Work?
#257 -- Reforming Medicaid
#256 -- Medicare Reform and Prescription Drugs:
Ten Principles
#255 -- Better Off Welfare
#254 -- Medical Savings Accounts and Prescription Drugs:
Evidence from South Africa
#253 -- Social Security Reform Around the World:
Lessons from Other Countries
#252 -- The Economic Cost of the Social Security Payroll Tax
#251 -- Gaining Ground: Women, Welfare Reform and Work
#250 -- Women and Taxes
(from the NCPA book, "Women's Agenda")
#249 -- Tax-Favored Savings Accounts: Who Gains? Who Loses?
#248 -- Reinventing Retirement Income in America
#247 -- Government Spending on the Elderly:
Social Security & Medicare
#246 -- Is War Between Generations Inevitable?
#245 -- Why the Capital Gains Tax Rate Should Be Zero
#244 -- Social Security and Market Risk
#243 -- Privacy in a Free Country: In Search of Reasonable Principles
#242 -- Characteristics Of An Ideal Health Care System
#241 -- Saving the Surplus
#240 -- Social Security and Education
#239 -- Comparing Prescription Drug Proposals : Bush v. Gore
#237 -- Crime and Punishment in Texas in the 1990s
#236 -- Social Security and Race
#235 -- Wealth, Mobility, Inheritance And The Estate Tax
#234 -- Medical Savings Accounts In South Africa
#233 -- Privatizing Probation and Parole
#232 -- Public Spending And Social Progress
#231 -- M & R Study - Defined Contributions As An Option In Medicare
#230 -- Ten Myths About The Market For Prescription Drugs
#229 -- Crime And Punishment In America: 1999
#228 -- Turning On The Lights: Deregulating The Market For Electricity
#227 -- Comparing Proposals for Social Security Reform
#226 -- The Case For The Tax Cut
#225 -- The Right Stuff: America's Move to Mass Customization
#224 -- Global Warming Policy: Some Economic Implications
#223 -- Suing Gun Manufacturers: Hazardous To Our Health
#222 -- Saving Medicare
#221 -- Privatizing Social Security In Latin America
#220 -- Investment-Based Social Security: Saving Social Security
For Our Parents, For Our Children
#219 -- Crime and Punishment In America: 1998
#218 -- Handcuffing The Cops: Miranda's Harmful Effects On
Law Enforcement
#217 -- Privatizing Social Security
#216 -- Medical Savings Accounts: Obstacles To Their Growth And
Ways To Improve Them
#215 -- Measuring The Burden Of High Taxes
#214 -- Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides
And the Causes Of Cancer
#213 -- The Tax Credits Program For School Choice
#212 -- The Nightmare In Our Future: Elderly Entitlements
#211 -- Murder By The State
#210 -- The State Of The Children: An Examination Of
Government-Run Foster Care
#209 -- The Reynolds Report - "Crime And Punishment In The U.S."
#208 -- Making Drugs Safe And Available Without The FDA
#207 -- The Economic Effects Of The Dole Tax Plan
#206 -- Factories Behind Bars
#205 -- The Economic Effects Of A Flat Tax
#204 -- Dying Too Soon: How Cost-Effectiveness
Analysis Can Save Lives
#203 -- Medical Savings Accounts: The Singapore Experience
#202 -- Crime and Punishment In Texas: Update
#201 -- New Environmentalism
#200 -- Private Alternatives To Social Security In Other Countries
#199 -- Saving The Medicare System With Medical Savings Accounts
#198 -- Compulsory Savings In Singapore: An Alternative To
The Welfare State
#197 -- Reforming Medicaid
#196 -- Multiculturalism and Economic Growth
#194 -- Progressive Environmentalism:
Principles For Regulatory Reform
#193 -- Crime And Punishment In America
#192 -- Comparing Opportunities To Reduce Health Risks:
Toxin Control, Medicine And Injury Prevention
#191 -- Should We Worry About Ozone?
#190 -- Should The Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?
#189 -- Law, Liberty And Economic Growth
#188 -- What Is The Optimal Size Of Government In The United States?
#187 -- Why Not Abolish The Welfare State?
#184 -- The Clinton Health Plan
#183 -- A Primer On Managed Competition
#181 -- Using The Private Sector To Deter Crime
#180 -- Texas Health Care Reform
The Best and Worst Ideas
#179 -- Rethinking Robin Hood
#178 -- Economic Impact Of Government Spending:
A 50-State Analysis
#176 -- Myths About Gun Control
#175 -- Crime in Texas 1992
#174 -- The Next Environmental Battleground: Indoor Air
#173 -- State Health Care Reform Under The Clinton Administration
#171 -- America's Unfairest Taxes: Tariffs And Quotas
#168 -- Controlling Health Care Costs With Medical Savings Accounts
#167 -- Senate Republican Conference:
Task Force on Economic Growth and Job Creation
#166 -- Twenty Myths About National Health Insurance
#165 -- A Consumer's Guide To Environmental Myths and Realities
#164 -- Government In Retreat
#162 -- Progressive Environmentalism: A Pro-Human, Pro-Science,
Pro-Free Enterprise Agenda For Change
#161 -- How State and Local Taxes Affect Economic Growth
#159 -- Tax Rates, Tax Revenues And Economic Growth
#158 -- Crime in Texas
#157 -- Why Worry About Global Warming?
#155 -- Federal Deposit Insurance: The Case For Radical Reform
#151 -- An Agenda For Solving America's Health Care Crisis
#150 -- Efficiency And Inefficiency In The Texas Public Schools
#149 -- Crime Pays, But So Does Imprisonment
#148 -- Choice In Education: Opportunities For Texas
#146 -- Equality And Inequality In Texas School Finance
#144 -- Report Card On Texas Schools
#140 -- Child Care Tax Credits: A Supply-Side Success Story
#139 -- Health Care After Retirement
Who Will Pay The Cost?
#138 -- How Much Government Does Texas Need?
#137 -- Making The World Less Safe:
The Unhealthy Trend In Health, Safety, And Environmental Regulation
#136 -- Mandating Health Insurance
#135 -- The Elderly: People the Supply-Side Revolution Forgot
#134 -- Freedom of Choice In Health Insurance
#133 -- Paying People Not to Work
The Unemployment Compensation System
#132 -- Private Alternatives to Social Security In Other Countries
#131 -- Private Sector Alternatives to the Welfare State
A New Agenda for Black Americans
#130 -- Health Care For the Elderly: The Nightmare In Our Future
#129 -- Legal Barriers To Home-Based Work
#128 -- Social Security and Race
#127 -- Social Security: Who Gains? Who Loses?
#126 -- Government vs. Free Enterprise In Space
#125 -- Private Sector Alternatives In Urban Transportation
#124 -- Destroying the Environment
Government Mismanagement of Our Natural Resources
#123 -- Privatizing the Welfare State
#121 -- Paying People To Be Poor
#120 -- Privatization Around the Globe
Lessons for the Reagan Administration
#119 -- Pension Plans at Risk
A Potential Hazard of Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform
#118 -- The Changing Market For Health Insurance
Opting Out of the Cost-Plus System
#117 -- Taxation and Economic Growth
The Emerging Consensus Among The Experts
#114 -- Analyzing the Reagan Record
#113 -- America In Space: The New Industrial Revolution
#112 -- Legislating Black Unemployment
#111 -- The Soviet Space Threat
#110 -- Why Not the Best?
NCPA Task Force on Education: Certification of Texas Teachers
#109 -- Solving the Problem of Medicare
#108 -- Explaining the Economic Gender Gap
#107 -- Welfare and Poverty
#106 -- The Nation's Largest Municipal Bankruptcy
The Tip of the Off-Budget Iceberg
#105 -- The Failure of Our Public Schools
The Causes and a Solution
#104 -- The Effect of the Social Security System on Black Americans
#103 -- The R.E.A.L. Federal Deficit
#102 -- Equality of Access to Medical Care: The Untold Story of
the Changing Nature of the American Health Care System
#101 -- Off-Budget Spending: The Growth of Underground Government

#163 -- Medical Malpractice Reform
#162 -- Work and Retirement
#161 -- Saving and Investing: A Challenge for Women
#160 -- Ballistic Imaging: Not Ready for Prime Time
#159 -- Are We Running Out of Oil?
#158 -- Technology and Freedom: The Virtuous Circle
#157 -- MSA's Can Be a Windfall for All
#156 -- The Evolving Technologies Of Internet Privacy
#155 -- School Choice vs. School Choice
#154 -- Defined Contribution Health Insurance
#153 -- School Choice In The Courts
#152 -- Why the Social Security Earnings Penalty Should be Repealed
#151 -- On Reforming Medicare
#150 -- Why Death Taxes Should Be Abolished
#149 -- Reforming The U.S. Health Care System
#148 -- Does Punishment Deter?
#147 -- Technology and Economic Growth in the Information Age
#146 -- The Economy's Good News: The Upside Of Downsizing
#145 -- The Marriage Penalty
#144 -- The 1997 Budget Deal - What It Means to Taxpayers
#143 -- Making Welfare Work
#142 -- The Case for Abolishing Death Taxes
#141 -- An Environmental Report Card On The 104th Congress
#140 -- The Case For An Across The Board Tax Rate Reduction
#139 -- Tax Reform's "Third Rail": Mortgage Interest
#138 -- What's Happening To Americans' Income?
#137 -- Tax Fairness for the Elderly: Eliminating the
Social Security Earnings Penalty
#136 -- Myths About Our Health Care System: Lessons for Policy Makers
#135 -- Two Cheers For GATT
#133 -- The Clinton/Gephardt Bill
#132 -- Evaluating Senator Dole's Health Care Plan
#130 -- The Case For NAFTA
#129 -- What President Clinton Can Learn from Canada About Price
Controls and Global Budgets
#128 -- Personal Medical Savings Accounts (Medical IRAs)
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
#127 -- Federal Budget Issue: Do We Need an Energy Tax?
#127 -- Do We Need an Energy Tax?
#123 -- Why Does Crime Pay?
#121 -- A Layperson's Guide to Health Insurance Reform
#119 -- How the Federal Government is Causing Our Nation's Health Care Crisis
#118 -- The Best and Worst Ideas for Health Care Reform
#115 -- Should Healthy People Pay More For Health Insurance?
#111 -- Auto Fuel Economy Standards:
Good for the Environment or a Cause of Highway Deaths?
#110 -- Why Does Crime Pay?
#107 -- Rethinking the Clean Air Act Amendments
#106 -- State Governments Turn to New Taxes
#105 -- Do We Need New Taxes?
#104 -- How To Stimulate Economic Growth and Reduce the
Deficit at the Same Time
#103 -- Would a Capital Gains Tax Cut Increase or
Reduce Government Revenue?
#102 -- Should Income Tax Rates For Weathly Taxpayers Be Increased?
#101 -- Should 85 Percent of Social Security Benefits Be Taxed?

#619 -- The Economic Benefits of NAFTA to the United States and Mexico
#618 -- Insuring New Jersey's Uninsured
#617 -- Capping CO2 Emissions, Boosting Energy Costs
#616 -- Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2008
#615 -- 401(k) Loans = Retirement Insecurity
#614 -- Energy Independence in Brazil: Lessons for the United States
#613 -- Our Triple Deficits
#612 -- Giving No Credit Where It Is Due: Social Security Disability
#611 -- How the Fed Creates Money
#610 -- Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really! Redux
#609 -- Climate Change Forecasters on the Hot Seat
#608 -- Welfare Reform in Indiana
#607 -- Geoengineering: A Global Warming Fix?
#606 -- Tax Code Became More Progressive after the Bush Tax Cuts
#605 -- Economic Freedom and Economic Growth in Mexico
#604 -- Wealthier Is Healthier: A Better Way to Aid Africa
#603 -- Increasing America’s Domestic Fuel Supply by Building New Oil Refineries
#602 -- School Choice and Hispanic Dropouts
#601 -- Texas Charters, Choice and Performance
#600 -- The Coming Tax Tsunami
#599 -- The Surtax: Worse Than the Alternative Minimum Tax
#598 -- A Clean Air Regulation Hazardous to Health
#597 -- Repairing Bridges without Raising Gas Taxes
#596 -- U.S. Cancer Care Is Number One
#595 -- Crisis of the Uninsured: 2007
#594 -- Chile’s Answer to Rising U.S. Disability Costs
#593 -- Trade Is the Best Aid for Africa
#592 -- Electricity Deregulation: Taking the Next Step
#591 -- The Environmental Costs of Ethanol
#590 -- Increasing America's Domestic Fuel Supply
#589 -- SCHIP Expansion: Robin Hood in Reverse
#588 -- How to Fix the Alternative Minimum Tax
#587 -- Texas Health Care Reform
#586 -- Is Health Spending Out of Control?
#585 -- Insuring the Uninsured: Five Steps to Improve the Massachusetts Plan
#584 -- A Wiser Way For Retirees to Donate
#583 -- Pension Reform in Chile: Closing the Gap, Not Scrapping the System
#582 -- Economic Growth without Inflation
#581 -- Ocean Fisheries: Common Heritage or Tragic Commons
#580 -- Twelve Reform Steps for Texas
#579 -- Answering the Critics of the Bush Health Plan
#578 -- The Bush Health Plan
#577 -- Breathe Easy on Air Quality
#576 -- Seniors' Drug Costs: Government versus the Internet
#575 -- Medicare: Negotiated Drug Prices May Not Lower Costs
#574 -- Killing the Death Tax
#573 -- Economic and Public Health Benefits of Coal-Based Energy
#572 -- Update 2006: Why Are Health Costs Rising?
#571 -- The Alternative Minimum Tax Threatens Middle-Income Families
#570 -- Constructive Thinking about Climate Change, Part II
#569 -- Will Mandatory Health Insurance Work?
#568 -- Crisis of the Uninsured: 2006 Update
#567 -- Automatic 401(k)s: A Win for Workers
#566 -- Federal Medicaid Funding Reform
#565 -- Saving Health Insurance from the Minimum Wage
#564 -- Constructive Thinking about Climate Change, Part I: Energy
#563 -- In the Public Interest: Tapping the Outer Continental Shelf
#562 -- How Economic Freedom Can Increase Oil Supplies
#561 -- The Truth about An Inconvenient Truth
#560 -- Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2006
#559 -- Consumer-Driven Health Care Spurs Innovation in Physician Services
#558 -- How to Create a Competitive Insurance Market
#557 -- Bringing Down Gasoline and Oil Prices
#556 -- We All Pay for the Estate Tax
#555 -- Taxing the Elderly
#554 -- Would You Benefit from a Roth IRA?
#553 -- Trade and Economic Growth, Part II
#552 -- Trade and Economic Growth, Part I
#551 -- Polar Bears on Thin Ice, Not Really!
#550 -- The Negative Effects of the Minimum Wage
#549 -- Taxing Profits, Draining Energy
#548 -- Transparency in Health Care
#547 -- Farm Subsidies: Devastating the World's Poor and the Environment
#546 -- Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part III
#545 -- Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part II
#544 -- Health Savings Accounts: Answering the Critics, Part I
#543 -- Personal and Portable Health Insurance
#542 -- Bush's Answer to Hillarycare
#541 -- e-Welfare Reform
#540 -- The Defined Benefit Pension Crisis
#539 -- A New Frontier for Welfare Reform
#538 -- Grading the President's Tax Reform Panel's Plan
#537 -- The Flat Tax: Improving on a Good Idea
#536 -- Patients' Right to Choose
#535 -- Teachers' Cost of Living Matters More
#534 -- Educating the Children of Katrina
#533 -- Housing for Hurricane Victims
#532 -- Health Care for Hurricane Victims
#531 -- Charter Schools and Urban Development
#530 -- Hot Air vs. the Cold Hard Truth about Hurricanes and Global Warming
#529 -- Aid to Katrina Victims: A Right/Left Consensus
#528 -- Crisis of the Uninsured: 2005 Update
#527 -- Climate Change: Consensus Forming around Adaptation
#526 -- The Bicoastal Housing Bubble
#525 -- Subsidizing Disaster
#524 -- Patient Power: Over-the-Counter Drugs
#523 -- Health Insurance Choice
#522 -- An Ill Wind for Consumers: The Energy Bill
#521 -- The Legal Responsibility of Adult Children to Care for Indigent Parents
#520 -- Social Security and Progressive Indexing
#519 -- Stock Returns and Economic Growth
#518 -- Making HSAs Better
#517 -- Global Warming: Famine or Feast?
#516 -- Climate Forecast: Warm and Sunny
#515 -- Reforming Medicaid: More Flexibility for the States
#514 -- Galveston County: A Model for Social Security Reform
#513 -- Social Security Reform: The Cost of Delay
#512 -- What We Can Learn from the British Experience with Personal Accounts
#511 -- Burning Bright: Nuclear Energys Future
#510 -- Social Security & Medicare Forecast: 2005
#509 -- Answering the Myths about Social Security
#508 -- Dispelling the Myths About Nuclear Power
#507 -- Public Housing Reform
#506 -- Social Security Reform: Keeping Administrative Costs Low
#505 -- Social Security Reform: Reducing the Risk of Poverty
#504 -- Social Security Reform: Looking at the Options
#503 -- Drug Reimportation: The Free Trade Solution
#502 -- The Coming Fiscal Deluge
#501 -- Thinking Outside The Big Box
#500 -- Patient Power: Access to Drugs
#499 -- The Minimum Wage Is Bad Policy
#498 -- Health Care Tax Credits for the Uninsured
#497 -- Ten Easy Health Reforms
#496 -- Flexible Spending Accounts: Making a Good Deal Better
#495 -- Retirement Savings Reforms on which the Left and the Right Can Agree
#494 -- Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
#493 -- Whats Behind the Flu Vaccine Shortage
#492 -- Kerrys Energy Plan: Inconsistent, Expensive, Leaving America Less Secure
#491 -- The Promises and Perils of European Union Membership
#490 -- How Will We Pay for Social Security and Medicare?
#489 -- Kerry Health Plan: Is It Worth the Cost?
#488 -- Kerry Health Plan: Who Will Pay?
#487 -- Kerry Tax Plan: Them versus Us
#486 -- Bush Health Plan: Consumer-Driven Health Care
#485 -- Applying the Precautionary Principle to DDT
#484 -- Is There a Crisis of the Uninsured?
#483 -- Benefits of the Bush Dividend Tax Cut
#482 -- Is College Too Expensive, Or More Affordable Than Ever
#481 -- A Brief History of Health Savings Accounts
#480 -- How Outsourcing Creates Jobs for Americans
#479 -- Health Savings Accounts: Myth vs. Fact
#478 -- Breaking the Hockey Stick
#477 -- Bush Savings Incentives
#476-- Social Security & Medicare Forecast: 2004
#475 -- European Unemployment: Lessons for the United States
#474 -- Energy Bill: Who Will Keep the Lights On?
#473 -- Smart Growth = Crime, Congestion and Poverty
#472 -- Welfare Reform: Finishing the Job
#471 -- Deficits and Taxes
#470 -- Eliminating the Social Security Payroll Cap: A Bad Idea
#469 -- Malthus Reconsidered
#468 -- Bush versus Kerry on Health Care
#467 -- Wind Power: Red Not Green
#466 -- Social Security, Women and Working Families
#465 --Two Cheers for the Bush Health Plan
#464 -- Health Savings Accounts Will Revolutionize American Health Care
#463 -- Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: What Difference Would It Make?
#462 -- Taxing Forests to Death
#461 -- Prescription Drug Means Testing = Higher Marginal Tax Rates
#460 -- Uninsured by Choice: Update
#459 -- What Causes Sprawl?
#458 -- Wasting Billions on Unemployment Insurance Overpayments
#457 -- Ending Welfare as We Know It: Lessons From Canada
#456 -- The State of U.S. Manufacturing
#455 -- Tax-Free Health Accounts: Portable, Flexible
Health Coverage for Working Women
#454 -- Answering the Critics of Health Accounts
#453 -- Piling Up Future Debts
#452 -- The Flat Tax in Russia and the New Europe
#451 -- Corporate Taxes
#450 -- Revising 1,000 Years of Climate History
#449 -- Economic Mobility
#448 -- Lower Drug Costs for Seniors
#447 -- Health Savings Accounts Are Crucial to Medicare Reform
#446 -- NCPA's Value-Added Report Card on Texas Schools: A Model for
Meaningful Assessments
#445 -- Marriage Penalty Relief in the New Tax Law
#444 -- The Bush Medicare Reform Plan
#443 -- The Federal Thrift Savings Plan: A Model for Social Security Reform
#442 -- Association Health Plans
#441 -- Gephardts Health Plan: Four Flaws
#440 -- Energy Bill Mistakes: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
#439 -- Flexible Spending Accounts: The Case for Reform
#438 -- Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Making a Good Deal Better
#437 -- Why Are Health Costs Rising?
#436 -- Social Security & Medicare Forecast: 2003
#435 -- Is Workers Compensation a Model for Unemployment Insurance?
#434 -- Shaping a Progressive Energy Policy: Natural Gas
#433 -- The Bush Tax Plan: Tax Reform in the Making
#432 -- Is There a Child Care Crisis?
#431 -- The IRS vs. Foreign Investment
#430 -- Three Avenues to Patient Power
#429 -- Social Security and Stock Market Risk
#428 -- How Not to Be Poor
#427 -- Should We Trade With Cuba?
#426 -- Is Extending Unemployment Benefits a Good Idea?
#425 -- Investor Tax Relief
#424 -- Chile Leads the Way with Individual Unemployment Accounts
#423 -- Cigarette Smuggling
#422 -- Making Sense of Sustainable Development
#421 -- Is Medicare Too Stingy?
#420 -- Association Health Plans - Part Two: Answering the Critics
#419 -- Association Health Plans - Part One: Answering the Critics
#418 -- Repeal the Federal Job Tax
#417 -- How To Save Social Security.
#416 -- Health Insurance: How Much Does It Matter?
#415 -- The Bush Health Agenda - Part II: Tax Credits
for the Uninsured
#414 -- The Bush Health Agenda - Part I: Strengthening
Employer-Provided Health Insurance
#413 -- The Farm Bill: A Twice-Baked Potato
#412 -- The Case Against Mental Health Parity, Part III:
Does the Care Really Work?
#411 -- The Case Against Mental Health Parity, Part II:
Predictable Harms
#410 -- The Case Against Mental Health Parity, Part I:
Faulty Assumptions
#409 -- Explaining the Growth of Medicare: Part I
#408 -- Explaining the Growth of Medicare: Part II
#407 -- Kyoto Misses Targets -- Hits Poor Instead
#406 -- Prescription Drugs for Seniors
#405 -- School Choice after Cleveland
#404 -- African Americans Benefit Most
from Personal Retirement Accounts
#403 -- Texas Charter Schools: Do They Measure Up?
#402 -- How Big Is the Government's Debt?
#401 -- Welfare Reform: Reasons To Stay the Course
#400 -- Immigrants, Welfare and Work
#399 -- Giving Patients More Control
#398 -- Increasing Consumer Choice in Health Care
#397 -- Health Care in Five Nations
#396 -- Limitations of Climate Models as Predictors of Climate Change
#395 -- Four Welfare Reforms
#394 -- Analyzing the 2002 Social Security Trustees Report
#393 -- 401(k) Reform: Doing It the Right Way
#392 -- The Wage Gap Myth
#391 -- Privatizing Defense: Britain Leads the Way
#390 -- Breathe Easier on Asthma-Air Pollution Link
#389 -- Two Cheers For Bush Health Plan
#388 -- CAFE's Three Strikes - It Should be Out
#387 -- Two Cheers for the Commission to Strengthen Social Security
#386 -- S. 556: A Backdoor Attempt to Implement the Kyoto Protocol
#385 -- Social Security Reform: The NCPA's 'Hybrid' Plan
#384 -- Tuition Tax Credits: A Model for School Choice
#383 -- Cleveland, School Choice and the Constitution
#382 -- Is the Stock Market Too Risky for Retirement?
#381 -- Tax Relief For The Uninsured: Scholarship vs. Political Hype
#380 -- Cipro and the Risks of Violating Pharmaceutical Patents
#379 -- Uninsured by Choice
#378 -- Science vs. Spin: Government Warming Redux
#377 -- Hunters: Founders and Leaders of Wildlife Conservation
#376 -- Fixing Airport Security
#375 -- Crisis Policy-Making: Immediate Action, Prolonged Regret
#374 -- Waging the New War on Terrorism
#373 -- Helping Laid-Off Workers Keep Insurance
#372 -- Right Idea, Wrong Method
#371 -- Propping Up SCHIP: Will This Program Ever Work?
#370 -- Would National Health Insurance Benefit Physicians?
#369 -- Sweden Edges toward Free-Market Medicine
#368 -- Saving Lives by Rejecting the Precautionary Principle
#367 -- Reality and Climate Change Policy
#366 -- Straight Talk about the Social Security Trust Fund
#365 -- Labor Law Discriminates Against Women
#364 -- Privacy from Government in a Transparent Society
#363 -- Fighting The Last War
#362 -- Q & A About Personal Social Security Retirement Accounts
#361 -- The Nightmare in Our Future - 2001 Update
#360 -- Financial Privacy: The Choice Is in the Mail
#359 -- Personal Privacy in a Transparent Society
#358 -- The Marriage Penalty: A Tax On Working Couples
#357 -- How Much Should We Spend on Health Care?
#356 -- MSAs for Everyone, Part III
#355 -- A Better Patients' Bill of Rights
#354 -- Creating Factories Behind Bars
#353 -- Restorative Justice, American Style
#352 -- Saving for a Rainy Day
#351 -- Medicaid Waivers: Wrong Cure for High Drug Prices
#350 -- If You Like Complicated Hidden Taxes, You'll Love Phase-outs
#349 -- More Gun Control Disguised as Crime Control
#348 -- California's Electrical Mess: The Deregulation That Wasn't
#347 -- Repeal the Grave-Robbing Tax
#346 -- Canada: A Health Care System on the Edge
#345 -- Cooling Overheated Global Warming Rhetoric
#344 -- Myths about Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
#343 -- The Power of Compounding and Social Security
#342 -- Reimporting Prescription Drugs
#341 -- Facts about Social Security
#340 -- Should IRA's Be Expanded
#339 -- Five Myths about the Uninsured in America
#338 -- Private Wildlife Conservation
#337 -- The Warmest Year on Whose Record?
#336 -- Banning Roads, Burning Forests
#335 -- Uninsured in the Lone Star State
#334 -- South Africa's Battle with AIDS and Drug Prices
#333 -- Americans Support Personal Retirement Accounts
#332 -- Reducing the Social Security Benefits Tax
#331 -- The Private Sector Is Closing The Digital Divide
#330 -- Managing Health Care with the Internet
#329 -- MySocialSecurity.org
#328 -- Does The Distribution Of Income Affect Life Expectancy?
#327 -- Four Years Of MSAs: The Lessons So Far
#326 -- School Choice in San Antonio
#325 -- Health Insurance: Letting Employees Choose
#324 -- Concealed Handgun Carriers: Law-abiding Public Benefactors
#323 -- Prescription Drug Costs: Has Canada Found the Answer?
#322 -- Clearing the Air About the Bush Environmental Record
#321 -- Should the Fed Raise Margin Requirements?
#320 -- Power for Sale
#319 -- MSAs for Everyone, Part II
#318 -- MSAs for Everyone, Part I
#317 -- Patient Power and the Internet
#316 -- SPICE: Not the Right Prescription
#315 -- Prescription Drugs for Seniors: The Roth IRA Solution
#314 -- Prescription Drugs and Medicare Reform
#313 -- Expanding Education Savings Accounts
#312 -- Bad Idea: Paying for Family Leave
#311 -- Patient Dissatisfaction
#310 -- Global Warming: Are Tennessee and Texas Getting Hotter?
#309 -- Bill Bradley's Health Plan:
Two Steps Forward, Six Steps Back
#308 -- The Gore Health Proposal:
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
#307 -- Patients' Rights: A Double Standard
#306 -- Health Insurance and the Minimum Wage
#305 -- Portland: Smart Growth's Bad Example
#304 -- Covering Up Scientific Data Violates the Public's Right to Know
#303 -- Income Distribution
#302 -- Five Principles of Social Security Reform
#301 -- Tough Questions for President Clinton's
Prescription Drug Benefit
#300 -- Simple Solutions for Elderly Prescription Drugs
#299 -- The Collapsing Scientific Cornerstones of Global
Warming Theory
#298 -- Dispelling the Myth of a Cost-Free Global Warming Treaty
#297 -- Do We Need Mental Health Parity?
#296 -- Would a Private Social Security System Be
Good for the Disabled?
#295 -- Making Medical Savings Accounts Better
#294 -- Off Target with Gun Controls
#293 -- The Language of Social Security Reform
#292 -- The Minimum Wage: Teen-Age Job Killer
#291 -- Divorce and Social Security
#290 -- Why Not Abolish The Community Reinvestment Act?
#289 -- Administering Private Social Security Accounts
#288 -- A Prescription For Medicare Disaster
#287 -- The Truth About Urban Sprawl
#286 -- Should The Federal Government Invest
Social Security Trust Funds?
#285 -- Teacher Accountability In Charter Schools
#284 -- Why All Taxpayers Deserve A Tax Cut
#283 -- The International Importance Of Low Tax Rates
#282 -- Sea Levels And Global Warming
#281 -- Let States Manage National Forests
#280 -- Foreign Dollar Holdings And The U.S. Money Supply
#279 -- The Private School Voucher Movement
#278 -- Europe's Underground Economies
#277 -- Is The Global Warming Treaty A Threat To National Security?
#276 -- Endangered Species Act:
First Step Toward Fixing A Costly Failure
#275 -- Real Patient Protection: Expanding Medical Savings Accounts
#274 -- Putting Drivers in the Driver's Seat
#273 -- The Underground Economy
#272 -- Are School Vouchers Constitutional?
#271 -- Patient Protection Accounts: Personal, Portable and Affordable
#270 -- Don't Raise the Minimum Wage - The Bar Is Already Too High
#269 -- Taxing the Poor
#268 -- Answering the Critics of Medicare Private Contracting
#267 -- A 12-Step Plan for Social Security Reform
#266 -- Answering Objections To School Vouchers In D.C.
#265 -- Private Vouchers For Educational Choice
#264 -- The Voucher Wars
#263 -- Health Plan for the GOP
#262 -- Green Growth: Five Principles For A Better Environment
#261 -- The Middle Class Tax Squeeze
#260 -- Comp Time: Giving Hourly Workers What Money Can't Buy
#259 -- Choice and Accountability: Texas Leads the Way
#258 -- Regulating The Regulators: The 1997 Regulatory
Improvement Act
#257 -- Can Social Security And Medicare Be Saved?
#256 -- Who's Afraid Of CO2
#255 -- Clinton's Child Care Proposals: The Mediocre,
The Bad & The Ugly
#254 -- Solving The Problems Of Managed Care
#253 -- Wrong Medicine At The Wrong Time
#252 -- 10 Guidelines For Insuring Children
#251 -- Explaining The Growing Number Of Uninsured
#250 -- Can The IRS Be Reformed?
#249 -- Can We Afford Consumer Protection? An Analysis
Of The PARCA Bill
#248 -- Day Care: Children vs. Government
#247 -- Crime Is Down Because Punishment Is Up
#246 -- No Smoking Guns: Answering Objections To
Right To Carry Laws
#245 -- The Economic Impact Of Prison Labor
#244 -- Education Savings Accounts
#243 -- Who's Afraid Of Patient Choice?
#242 -- Best And Worst Ideas For Insuring Children
#241 -- Sick Argument: Global Warming And The Spread Of
Tropical Diseases
#240 -- Kyoto Madness
#239 -- The Global Warming Game China 1 U.S. Workers 0
#238 -- The Global Warming Treaty:
For U.S. Consumers - All Pain, No Gain
#237 -- The Cost of Health Insurance Mandates
#236 -- The EPA's Dirty Little Secrets
#235 -- The Long Arm Of Federal Juvenile Crime Law Shortened
#234 -- Why Treasury's Numbers Don't Add Up
#233 -- One Last Chance For KidCare
#232 -- Will Minivans Become An Endangered Species?
#231 -- Will A Cigarette Tax Increase Really Help Uninsured Children?
#230 -- Myths Of Global Warming
#229 -- The Federal Government And Juvenile Crime
#228 -- Languishing In Foster Care
#227 -- What's Next For Medical Savings Accounts?
#226 -- Fix Medicare, Not Medigap
#225 -- Questions And Answers About Uninsured Children
#224 -- An Easy Way to Make Health Insurance More Expensive
#223 -- A Health Policy Agenda For The 105th Congress
#222 -- How Not To Save Medicare
#221 -- An Agenda For Economic Freedom
#220 -- Should We Abolish The Estate Tax?
#219 -- Answering Critics Of The Welfare Reform Act
#218 -- Insuring The Uninsured
#217 -- Is There an "Uninsured Children" Crisis?
#216 -- Welfare Reform: Building On A Good Start
#215 -- Some Americans Already Have Privatized Social Security
#214 -- Speak No Good: The Tragedy of FDA Gag Rules
#213 -- Global Warming Treaty Costs For The U. S.
#212 -- Social Security Reform: Other Countries Are Leading The Way
#211 -- Medical Savings Acct. Legislation: The Good,
The Bad & The Ugly
#210 -- Does Welfare Reform Cost More Money?
#209 -- Social Security Privatization
#208 -- The Medicare Program: The Need For Radical Surgery
#207 -- MSAs: What's at Stake for Patients
#206 -- Taxpayer Choice
#205 -- Fighting the Rising Tax Burden
#204 -- The Complex Dynamics Of Raising The Minimum Wage
#203 -- Misplaced Criticism Of MSAs
#202 -- Five Steps to Effective Regulatory Reform
#201 -- The Minimum Wage Trap
#200 -- Four Steps to Reforming Superfund
#199 -- Consensus on Health Reform
#198 -- Superfund: History of Failure
#197 -- Solving the Problem of Health Insurance Portability
#196 -- Portability: Is Kassebaum/Kennedy the Answer?
#195 -- Principles of the Flat Tax
#194 -- Benefits of the Flat Tax
#193 -- Why the Government Shut Down
#192 -- Making A Bad Program Worse:
Clinton's Attempt at Medicaid Reform
#191 -- Private Prisons Succeed
#190 -- A "Long-Term" Solution to a Medicaid Problem
#189 -- Answers For Seniors About Medicare Reform
#188 -- Is Preventive Medical Care Cost-Effective?
#187 -- How Not to Be Poor
#186 -- Why the Democrats' Medicare Plan Won't Work
#185 -- How Poor Are The Poor?
#184 -- Poor Gain (Proportionately) The Most
From Capital Gains Tax Cut
#183 -- Medical Savings Accounts For Medicare:
The Adverse Selection Issue
#182 -- Are Medical Savings Accounts Good For The Sick?
#181 -- Answers for Seniors About Medical Savings Accounts
#180 -- Censorship by the FDA
#179 -- A New Day for Welfare
#178 -- Better Than Medicare
#177 -- The Truth About Wages
#176 -- Controlling Riots
A Sensible Role for a Well-Regulated Militia?
#175 -- Saving The Medicare System With Medical Savings Accounts
#174 -- Taxing The Poor
#173 -- The Meat Inspection Debate
#172 -- Why We're Gaining Wetlands
#171 -- Bob Dole's Welfare Reform Plan
#170 -- Medical Savings Accounts & The States:
Growth From The Grassroots
#169 -- Welfare Reform
Should There Be Strings Attached?
#168 -- Solutions To The Problem Of Health Insurance Portability
#167 -- The Impact of ERISA
#166 -- The Endangered Species Act Debate
#165 -- Republican Tax Cuts: Are They Fair?
#164 -- House Moves To Adopt Archer-Jacobs Medical
Savings Accounts Bill
#163 -- Solving the Medicare Crisis
#162 -- The Case for ERISA
#161 -- Principles for Welfare Reform: Block Grants
#160 -- Medical Savings Accounts For Medicare
#159 -- Welfare Reform: School Lunches
#158 -- Tax Cuts and the Rich
#157 -- Medical Savings Accounts and Managed Care
#156 -- Are the Republican Tax Cuts Fair?
#155 -- Can Managed Care Solve the Medicaid Crisis?
#154 -- The Role of Pharmaceuticals in Health Care Reform
#153 -- Me Too Crime Reform
#152 -- The Compensation for Takings Rule
#151 -- Guide to Regulatory Reform: The Federalism Rule
#150 -- Guide to Regulatory Reform: The Cost-Benefit Rule
#149 -- Raising the Earnings Limit
#148 -- Dynamic Scoring: A Primer
#147 -- The Marriage Penalty
#146 -- Taxing the Elderly
#145 -- Welfare Reform That Really Works
#144 -- Ten Facts About Crime
#143 -- Environmental Racism?
#142 -- Tax Reform: The Need to Change Depreciation Rules
#141 -- How Not To Judge Our Health Care System
#140 -- In Harm's Way: The VA Health Care System
#139 -- The Case for Expanded IRAs
#138 -- The Republicans' Pro-Growth Contract
#137 -- The Case for a Capital Gains Tax Cut
#136 -- The Armey Flat Tax
#135 -- California's Single-Payer Initiative
#134 -- Evaluating the Clinton Economic Plan
#133 -- Answering The Critics Of Medical Savings Accounts: Part II
#132 -- Answering The Critics Of Medical Savings Accounts: Part I
#131 -- Two Cheers for Michel-Lott
#130 -- Senate Mainstream Plan: Compromising Health Care
#129 -- What's At Stake for the Elderly in Health Care Reform?
#128 -- The House Compromise Bill: A Missed Opportunity
#127 -- How Much Will the Mitchell Bill Really Cost?
#126 -- Is Hawaii a Model for Health Care Reform?
#125 -- Senator Mitchell's War On the Middle Class
#124 -- Is Universal Coverage in Everyone's Self-Interest?
#123 -- Do Higher Cigarette Taxes Make Sense?
#122 -- The Crime Bill That Deserves To Stay Dead
#121 -- Death By Quota
#120 -- Are the Uninsured Freeloaders?
#119 -- Is Universal Coverage Necessary to Control
Health Care Costs?
#118 -- Managed Competition Is Back
#117 -- Managed Competition: Hazardous To Your Health
#116 -- Health Plans: Bonanza for the Poor, Costly for Middle Class
#115 -- Medical Savings Accounts
The Momentum Builds
#114 -- Community Rating A Cure Worse Than the Disease
#113 -- Two Cheers For Senator Dole
#112 -- Risk Pools: A Better Solution for Preexisting Conditions
#111 -- Patient Power vs. Bureaucracy Power
#110 -- Why Employer Mandates Hurt Workers
#109 -- The Phony War On Crime
#108 -- Universal Coverage Without Mandates
#107 -- Federal Employee Health Plan: Model for Reform?
#106 -- The Crime Bill
Much Ado About Nothing
#105 -- Medical Savings Accounts:
The Private Sector Already Has Them
#104 -- Price Controls and Global Budgets: Lessons from Canada
#103 -- The Myth of Universal Coverage
#102 -- Will Banning Assault Weapons Reduce Crime?
#101 -- Does Punishment Matter?

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