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...matter won't be resolved without further studies on whether random drug-testing actually reduces drug use, and we may get them under an Administration less ideologically opposed to drug reform than President Bush's. But the data so far suggest that random drug-testing is a costly, ineffective solution to a non-problem...
...rested for 7 1/2 years. Now it's time to get to work.' ALAN JARA, former governor of Colombia's Meta state and one of five hostages recently released by guerrillas fighting for land reform...
...case can be made that it should have been divided into discrete packages: a short-term booster with tax cuts, state aid and shovel-ready public works; then, an education bill, a health-care bill, a green- and high-tech-economy bill. In almost all these areas, there are reforms that need to be attached to the money. The additional money for Medicaid should be part of a comprehensive health- insurance plan that creates a universal system of managed care for all Americans. The additional money for inner-city schools needs to be attached to education reform - longer school days...
...that, it is probably more important to watch what happens with the second job that Daschle had been slated to hold - that of head of a new White House Office of Health Reform. Thus far, Administration officials have not been willing to say if that White House job will even exist in the wake of Daschle's decision to end his bid for Health Secretary amid reports that he had failed to pay $128,000 of income taxes on time. But that White House office was where Daschle's expertise and clout would have mattered the most. While his former...
...Wednesday, as Obama signed into law an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, he vowed that his push for health reform would move forward. "The way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children through CHIP is just a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American," the President said. But with Daschle's departure, it is far less clear when - or even how-he will pay off the rest...