Topic: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 14, 2012

Friday Facts: September 14, 2012

 September 14, 2012 It’s Friday! The deadline is Monday to register for the third annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which takes place on Friday, September 21, at the W Hotel […]


July 31, 2012

Checking Up On Health Care

Health Policy Briefs July 31, 2012 Compiled by Benita M. Dodd – Where have all the doctors gone? What if you added to the ranks of insured individuals but didn’t […]

May 15, 2012

Checking Up on Health

Health Policy Briefs: Posted May 15 Compiled by Benita Dodd Water, water everywhere, but …: According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 780 million people still lacked safe drinking […]

March 27, 2012

Checking up on Health Care

Health Policy Briefs July 31, 2012 Compiled by Benita M. Dodd – Where have all the doctors gone? What if you added to the ranks of insured individuals but didn’t […]


March 20, 2012

Checking Up On Health

Health Policy Briefs: March 20, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Today is your last chance to sign up for “Georgia Health Care Update,” the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’ Leadership Breakfast, […]

March 14, 2012

Health Care: A Road Map to Innovation

By Ross Mason The United States spent $2.4 trillion on health care in 2011. If that represented a country, it would be the world’s sixth-largest economy. Health care accounted for […]

October 14, 2011

Friday Facts: October 14th, 2011

It’s Friday! – The Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award dinner begins at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. Joining the event to honor the Freedom Award […]

September 26, 2011

Texas Gov. Rick Perry to Address Foundation Conference

Texas Governor Rick Perry will address the Georgia Public Policy Foundation legislative conference this Friday morning at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.  GPPF invited the governor several weeks before […]


May 6, 2011

Friday Facts: May 6th, 2011

It’s Friday! Events – Tuesday is the deadline to register for the “The Battle,” the Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon on Thursday, May 12, at the Georgian Club in Cobb County. […]

May 6, 2011

Health Care Reform: Treat Disease, Not Symptoms

By Brian E. Hill, M.D. If physicians treated symptoms, they would never cure. Prescribing a cough suppressant to a patient with an intractable cough without searching for an underlying cause, […]

October 11, 2010

Friday Facts: October 22nd, 2010

It’s Friday!   Quotable – “There is no good reason to think the [Federal Communications Commission] should engineer electronic devices and interfaces based on its own views about what technologies and […]


October 16, 2009

Ten Things to Look for in Health Care Reform

By Kelly McCutchen Disguised as “reform,” numerous health care proposals are finding support. The result is a mishmash of plans that do little to improve access, quality or cost. There […]

September 11, 2009

The Mother of All Slush Funds

By Ronald E. Bachman   Now that Congress is back in session and President Obama has spoken, Washington’s focus on the various health plans will intensify. But health legislation passing […]

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