Word: opinionating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Debating Detroit I applaud TIME's decision to spend a year in Detroit looking at the city's and region's challenges and efforts at revitalization [Oct. 5]. However, I find it curious that you start intensive research into the city with an opinion piece by a resident of New York who left Michigan four decades ago. With all due respect to the acclaimed Daniel Okrent, simply reciting old grievances repeatedly rejected by voters, such as my having "resisted ... more stringent mileage standards," seems counterintuitive to the magazine's mission. I would ask that Okrent take another look...
...study, researchers analyzed public opinion regarding former president Bill Clinton’s proposed 1994 health care reform—suggesting that the legislation’s failure was due to peoples’ doubts that it would have an overall positive effect on them individually, despite their recognition of the national need for health care reform...
...recent study is the first paper to single out individual opinion as a factor in the health care debate, Blendon said, while most political scientists believe the public is most concerned with the national effects of reform...
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy and director of health policy research at the Kennedy School, said that Blendon’s results were manifest in American politics, adding that it is “absolutely true” that public opinion regarding current health reform is based more on how it affects each person individually than impact on the nation. Chandra added that what the American public wants for themselves is often in the long run good for the United States...
Those debating health care “need to tell people somehow how the reforms will affect them so they can better judge what their opinion will be,” said Benson, who is a research associate at the School of Public Health. He encouraged both supporters and opponents of the bill to focus the discussion on aspects that will realistically influence the American public...