Science Education & Policy

Health Care Spending Was The Reason For The ACA- But Costs Are Going To Go Up A Lot

It's a well-known fact that spending on health care has consistently grown faster than the rest of the U.S. economy but what's behind this trend is less certain. Economists cite multiple variables: rising malpractice costs due to jury awards rel ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 8:45pm

Atrazine And The Forever War On Science

I'll tell you up front, I am not a big fan of chemicals. It's not that I have chemophobia, or any science-phobia, I instead have that special sort of elitism that is available to people who have just been lucky enough to not need chemicals. I don ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 24 2019 - 8:33pm

Massachusetts Health Reform Linked To Significant Decline In Deaths- And They Are Ditching It

The pioneering health insurance exchange in Massachusetts- the model for President Barack Obama’s health care law- is headed for the scrap heap. The state wants to merge it with the federal HealthCare.gov enrollment site because it is so dysfunctional. Wi ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 3:00am

US Welfare Adjusted Spending Is Up 74 Percent Since 1975- But The Poorest People Are Not Getting It

You can't open a newspaper without reading about how many people are on welfare in America now. The government is even on a recruitment drive to get more people on benefits, and looking for ways to get them buying organic food too. That shows a whole ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 11:06am

EPA Integrated Risk Information System Made "Substantial Improvements"

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council has found that changes EPA has proposed and implemented into its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) process are "substantial improvements"  over its old system. IRIS ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2014 - 11:36am

3,100,000 Vs 0: GMOs Win

Vermont is still milking the slavery thing. Yes, yes, you were first to ban it. It's easy to ban something you never had in the first place. That does not mean you are right in everything you ban and, let's face it, comparing GMOs to slavery is a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2014 - 9:07pm

Affordable Care Act Provisions Leave 1.1 Million Community Health Center Patients Without Insurance

During implementation of the Affordable Care Act, states were pressured into increasing Medicaid coverage to higher incomes. Many did not want to do it, not because they were against health care but did not want a flawed program consuming even more of sta ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 4:00am

Defensive Medicine: $1.9 Billion In Medicare Waste Is Just The 'Tip Of The Iceberg'

During the debate over the Affordable Care Act, among the biggest supporters were trial attorneys, and for obvious reasons. A government has unlimited deep pockets. Among those concerned were people in medicine who had seen the rise in 'defensive med ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2014 - 5:50pm

The Equality We Should Care About Is Economic- New York Gets 20 Percent Of Funding To Train Doctors

Discussions about science and, to a less extent medicine, often involve optimizing its representation. Various fields discuss how to increase gender or racial parity, while political and handicapped representation is dismissed as choice or even competence. ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 10:18pm

How Are States Doing In Science?

While American adults lead the world in science literacy, and America leads the world in science output and Nobel prizes, American students are only middle of the pack when it comes to international standardized tests. Is science creativity, teaching how ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 5:52pm