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Containing the Crisis
The Impact of Welfare Reform
The Massachusetts Health Plan: Lessons for the States



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"Firing short range missiles into Israel, Hezbollah is the major destabilizing force in the Middle East and the main obstacle to democratization and stability in Lebanon," writes Ariel Cohen.

Most Lebanese want Hezbollah disarmed and out of Southern Lebanon. "Israel appears determined to carry out this mission, and the United States should not hold its ally back," urges Cohen.

Read U.S. Should Not Impose a Ceasefire Deadline on Israel by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.

Containing the Escalating Crisis in Lebanon by James Phillips and James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.

Iran and its Hezbollah Allies Escalate Their Aggressive Policies in the Middle East by James Phillips

Countering Iran's Nuclear Challenge  by James Phillips, John C. Hulsman, Ph.D., and James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.

More: Iran Briefing Room


Ten years ago, when the welfare reform legislation was signed into law, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D–NY) proclaimed the new law to be “the most brutal act of social policy since Reconstruction.” He predicted, “Those involved will take this disgrace to their graves.”

Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, declared the new reform law an “outrage…that will hurt and impoverish millions of American children.” The reform, she said, “will leave a moral blot on [Clinton’s] presidency and on our nation that will never be forgotten.”


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State officials can dramatically improve the functioning of their state health insurance markets, es­tablish portability and personal ownership in health insurance coverage, and make major im­provements in how they finance health care for the uninsured. Massachusetts, a state with a conserva­tive Republican governor and liberal Democratic legislature, has recently enacted comprehensive health care reform. Not surprisingly, many state of­ficials from around the country are carefully exam­ining the Massachusetts health plan, trying to dis­cern what is applicable to or appropriate for their own states.


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