Tag:health policy articles
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The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes
The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes Authroed by Kevin Bardosh & Jay Bhattarcharya via RealClearPolicy, The World Health Organization is urging the U.S. and 193 other governments to commit next month to a new global treaty to prevent and manage future pandemics. Current estimates suggest over $31 billion per year will be needed to fund its obligations, a cost most lower income countries cannot afford. But that isn’t the only reason to oppose...
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Editorial: On dietary, health issues honesty is the best policy: Potatoes are still vegetables
Remember when the federal government reclassified ketchup as a vegetable to make school lunch offerings comply with nutritional guidelines? The Reagan-era move enabled schools to use the condiment as a larger element when preparing students’ meals, for example.
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Appeals Court Says State Health Policies Excluding Transgender Surgeries Violate Constitution
Appeals Court Says State Health Policies Excluding Transgender Surgeries Violate Constitution Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against two state-level health policies that exclude so-called “gender-affirming” treatments, teeing up potential review by the U.S. Supreme Court Judge Roger Gregory, an appointee of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, wrote in his majority opinion that the policies’ exclusion of...