The New Smoke Abatement Bill

The New Eugenics: Black Hyper-Incarceration and Human Abatement

In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement exercised considerable influence over domestic US public policy. Positive eugenics encouraged the reproduction of “fit” human specimens while negative eugenics attempted to reduce the reproduction of “unfit” specimens like the “feebleminded” and the criminal. Although eugenics became a taboo concept after World War II, it did not disappear. ...

The New Bill and the Mental Deficiency Services

I have been asked to discuss what implications the passing of the new Mental Health Bill may have upon mental deficiency hospitals and services in general. It may, of course, be amended before it is passed, but perhaps a little consideration of some of the ways in which it varies from the recommendations of the Royal Commission may be of interest at this stage. The most important difference in ...

How beneficiaries fare under the new Medicare drug bill.

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) provides the largest benefit expansion in Medicare's history while enacting major changes to the program's structure. Offering $410 billion in new drug benefits will certainly help many beneficiaries now struggling with the costs of prescriptions, particularly those with low incomes. It is difficult to determine, however, wh...

The Drug Control Bill

The Senate Bill

As the crafting of new legislation becomes a drawn-out process, compromises eventually e m e rge, and the resulting proposals often appear to be portions of various proposals spliced together. Such is the case with a farm bill proposal approved Sept. 28 in the Senate Committee on A g r i c u l t u re, Nutrition, and Forestry. As of this writing, the specific language of the bill was being devel...