Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

PUBLICATIONS BY Daniel P Moloney, Ph.D.

2008 Commentary

July 02, 2008
Planned Teen Parenthood
By Daniel P. Moloney
Teenagers aren’t ready to be parents. Their parents would tell them this — if the government would let them.

2008 Research

September 15, 2008
Reforming Health Care to Protect Parents' Rights
By Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2181)
Medicaid, SCHIP, Title X, and other government health care programs deny parents the right to know which medical services their children receive, even when the services include birth control, psychiatric counseling, or substance-abuse therapy. Reform based on personal choice and competition allows parents to ensure that the medical decisions that affect their families are compatible with their moral judgments.

May 20, 2008
California Court's Judicial Activism Threatens the Institution of Marriage
By Jennifer A. Marshall, Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D. and Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1932)
On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court overturned California voters' 61 percent majority, expressed in 2000's Proposition 22, in favor of affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The California court’s decision is the latest in a series of judicial and legislative efforts to institutionalize a social experiment in its early stages by elevating it in law to the status of the oldest of institutions: marriage.

May 14, 2008
Blocking Medicaid Rules: Hurting Families and Taxpayers Alike
By Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1924)
Congress is about to make a bad decision on Medicaid that will affect taxpayers and families alike. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is responsible for administering the Medicaid program, has issued seven rules designed to curb certain Medicaid fraud and abuses. Congress is poised to block these rules and thus allow abusive, fraudulent, and wasteful activities to continue.

May 13, 2008
From Good Intentions to Bad AIDS Policy: The Moral Hazards of Redesigning PEPFAR
By Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1921)
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has received praise from across the political spectrum, both for its principles and for its successes in fighting HIV/AIDS in some of the world’s poorest countries. Announced by President George W. Bush in the 2003 State of the Union Address, PEPFAR fights HIV/AIDS primarily in countries with generalized epidemics.  These countries are mostly, though not exclusively, in Africa.

March 11, 2008
PEPFAR "Compromise" Abandons Successful Approaches to International AIDS Relief
By Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #1845)
Reauthorization proposals in Congress represent significant departures from the current law, are hugely expensive, and would take U.S. policy off-course.

February 13, 2008
Keeping PEPFAR International AIDS Relief on Target
By Jennifer A. Marshall, Daniel Patrick Moloney, Ph.D., and Brett D. Schaefer
(WebMemo #1812)
In reauthorizing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Congress must ensure that funding is administered in ways that have proven effective and that preserve accountability.

2007 Research

December 03, 2007
SCHIP Expansion: More Birth Control for Minors, Less Involvement by Parents
By Daniel Patrick Moloney
(WebMemo #1715)
This legislation would help make contraception available to millions of children while prohibiting doctors and schools from informing the children’s parents.