Policy and Politics Writer

Beth Henary Watson

3 articles 2006–2011

Beth Henary Watson is a writer who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2011. Her pieces for the magazine covered political and policy topics, including gerrymandering, legislative deals, and environmental regulation by the EPA.

Targeted by the EPA

June 6, 2011 · Beth Henary Watson, EPA, Magazine

A three-inch lizard scuttled into the spotlight in December after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving it onto the Endangered Species List. The dunes sagebrush lizard’s habitat covers just eight counties on the Texas-New Mexico border, right in the heart of the Permian Basin, a major…

A Bad Deal Gets Worse

June 21, 2010 · Beth Henary Watson, Magazine

Hostility to the individual health insurance market and its less pleasant features, including medical underwriting, permeated President Obama’s crusade for health care reform. Although Obama-care ultimately will outlaw underwriting based on health history, it will increase the number of people…