Policy Briefs
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A Question of Taste: The Public Health Case for E-Cigarette Flavors
Publication -Policy Briefs -Any policy that harms the exclusive makers of reduced-risk products such as e-cigarettes more than the makers of traditional cigarettes is not in the interests of public health. -
Policy Brief: Debunking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Policy Brief outlines the basic elements of the fracking process and then refutes the four most widespread fracking myths, providing lawmakers and the public with the research and data they need to make informed decisions about hydraulic fracturing. -
Policy Brief: The Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus: A Leftist Betrayal of Republican Voters
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Climate Solutions Caucus (CSC) works hand-in-hand with the leftist Citizens' Climate Lobby. Any scheme to replace affordable conventional energy with expensive wind and solar power would severely punish consumers and the U.S. economy. -
Policy Brief: Don’t Buy the Hype: Medicaid Expansion Would Be a Disaster for Idaho
Publication -Policy Briefs -In this Policy Brief, Heartland's Charlie Katebi and Lindsay Atkinson from the Idaho Freedom Foundation discuss how Milliman and other consulting firms routinely underestimate the cost of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. -
Policy Brief: Free To Choose Medicine in Japan: A Model for America
Publication -Policy Briefs -The twenty-first century might well see medical innovations that could rid humanity of crippling and deadly illnesses, extending the healthy lifetimes of all by decades. -
Policy Brief: How to Cure Pennsylvania’s Health Benefits Crisis
Publication -Policy Briefs -In this Policy Brief, Charlie Katebi argues taxpayer spending on health care for Pennsylvania state employees has skyrocketed as a result of wasteful incentives and a lack of price transparency in the state’s health care system. -
Policy Brief: The Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels
Publication -Policy Briefs -Humankind's historic and ongoing use of fossil fuels has resulted in huge benefits for people, wildlife, and ecosystems. Five of those benefits are documented here. -
Policy Brief: Protecting Students with Child Safety Accounts
Publication -Policy Briefs -Students should not have to wait years at a time or become victims of violent crime before their parents are allowed to transfer them to safer schools. -
A Climate Science Tutorial Prepared for Hon. William Alsup
Publication -Policy Briefs -Although completed too late to submit to the judge, this document stands on its own as a good primer on climate change. -
Strengthening America’s Educational Safety Net
Publication -Policy Briefs -All students have unique skills, face unique challenges, and have unique needs. For many students, such needs are not met in standard government school classrooms and settings. These students are often described generally as "at-risk." -
Why the Constitution’s ‘Convention for Proposing Amendments’ Is a Convention of the States
Publication -Policy Briefs -State lawmakers weighing whether to apply for a federal amendments convention are often asked, "How do you know an amendments convention is a convention of the states?" -
Will Global Warming Overflow the Chesapeake Bay?
Publication -Policy Briefs -Flooding problems in the Chesapeake Bay region— Maryland and Virginia in particular—are due not to climate-change-induced sea-level rise, but to land subsidence. -
A Viewer’s Guide to NatGeo’s "From the Ashes": Why It Belongs in the Ashes
Publication -Policy Briefs -"From the Ashes" could have undone some of the damage caused by Gore’s movies and other recent movies that mislead rather than inform viewers. It is a shame that its producers had a different agenda. -
Don’t Wait for Congress to Fix Health Care
Publication -Policy Briefs -States can implement real health care solutions today. -
Data versus Hype: How Ten Cities Show Sea Level Rise Is a False Crisis
Publication -Policy Briefs -Fear of rising sea levels is not a justification for reducing carbon dioxide emissions or adopting policies that would have that effect. -
Global Warming Surprises
Publication -Policy Briefs -Temperature data in dispute can reverse conclusions about human influence on climate. -
A Proposed Balanced Budget Amendment
Publication -Policy Briefs -As the debt of the United States government continues to mount, efforts to add a balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the U.S. Constitution are gaining steam. But drafting such an amendment is not as easy as it sounds. -
Education Savings Accounts: The Future of School Choice Has Arrived
Publication -Policy Briefs -Although the idea has been around since the 1990s, education savings accounts (ESAs) are attracting increasing interest among school choice advocates and legislators who want every child to have a quality education. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Rightsizing Government
Publication -Policy Briefs -This paper -- the tenth and final in the Roadmap series -- describes efforts to define the optimal size of government, and policies that can get us there. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: National Defense
Publication -Policy Briefs -This paper -- the ninth in the Roadmap series -- describes the importance of U.S. military readiness and three priorities for the new administration. -
Vaping, E-Cigarettes, and Public Policy Toward Alternatives to Smoking
Publication -Policy Briefs -Policymakers should be mindful of the extensive research that supports tobacco harm reduction and understand that bans, excessive regulations, or high taxes on e-cigarettes could encourage smokers to stay with more-harmful traditional cigarettes. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Social Security and Medicare
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Roadmap paper describes how personal savings and investment accounts could entirely eliminate the unfunded liabilities of Social Security – and eventually Medicare. -
The Case for Licensing Dental Therapists in North Dakota
Publication -Policy Briefs -A joint publication of The Heartland Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation, this Policy Brief makes a case for the licensing of dental therapists in North Dakota to improve access to basic and preventative oral care. -
Roadmap for the 21st Century: Education Choice
Publication -Policy Briefs -This Roadmap paper describes how choice and competition in education can improve student achievement and boost economic growth.
