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The Real Threat of Viruses
Opinion -Editorial -A few years ago, it was ebola. Today, the coronavirus. Tomorrow, because of mutation, it will be something else. -
Feds Nix Wyoming’s Plan to Regulate Air Ambulances Through Medicaid
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied Wyoming’s request to expand Medicaid so it can control the price and distribution of its air ambulance service. -
Too Many Regulatory Silos in Patient Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Director Eric Hargan says his agency is trying to eliminate regulatory barriers to health care in a way that would improve delivery and maintain “safeguards to patients.” -
Heartland Weekly: The Disastrous Socialist Revolution
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 3, 2020 -
The Green Oscars: A High-fashion Nightmare!
Opinion -Editorial -Living high-flying lives of hypocrisy, while telling the rest of us how we should live. -
Virginia House Considers Repealing Education Tax Credit
Opinion -school-reform-news -Control of the Virginia General Assembly flipped from Republican to Democrat in the November 2019 election, when Democrats won majorities in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates. -
Trump Administration Proposes Opening Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve to Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration proposed opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas production, reversing an Obama-era plan that closed much of the reserve. -
Kansas Lawmakers Bow to Pressure to Expand Medicaid
Opinion -News -Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and Republican State Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning (R- District 8) announced a compromise proposal that would expand Medicaid to 150,000 Kansans, a step towards Kelly’s campaign promise to expand Medicaid eligibility in th -
CMS Approves Utah’s Medicaid Work Rules After Rejecting Partial Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a work requirement for enrollees in the state’s expanded Medicaid program. -
Nebraska County Puts Hold on Wind Facility Development
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Hamilton County, Nebraska Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to place a six-month hold on all applications for wind turbine projects in the county. -
Climate Science Was Corrupted, Says Award Winning Climate Scientist
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Politics has corrupted climate science, with scientists in the field ignoring evidence a climate crisis is not occurring. -
Legal Firearms on College Campuses Don’t Increase Violence, Universities Report
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -The College Fix, a news website, contacted “multiple public universities in states where campus carry is legal,” and none of those responding reported any increase in gun violence since adopting policies allowing campus carry. -
The Super Bowl Proves that America Is Not Broken
Opinion -Editorial -There was also an interesting regionalism in operation here: the left coast vs the heartland, and just look who won! Political allegory anyone? -
The Mixed Economy Is a Mess
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The country is almost split down the middle about whether government does too much or too little. -
Physicians Lose Jobs to Nurse Practitioners at Suburban Health Clinics
Opinion -health-care-news, News -On April 1, the Edwards-Elmhurst Hospital Health system will replace fifteen physicians at seven immediate care clinics in the Chicago suburbs with lower-cost nurse practitioners (NPs). -
Heartland Institute Education Expert Reacts to President Trump’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -Press Release -President Trump in his State of the Union address made perhaps the strongest statements in support of school choice ever in that annual speech. -
Partners in Liberty: The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to promote a positive, alternative voice on environmental and development issues within the United States and internationally. -
House, Senate Bills Would Expand Health Savings Accounts
Opinion -News -In the midst of a national health-care debate over surprise billing, Medicare-for-All, the public option, and drug price transparency, a new front has been opened on Capitol Hill: expansion of health savings accounts (HSAs). -
Congress Considers Broader Protections for Corporate Whistleblowers
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of protection under existing law to employees who report wrongdoing directly to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). -
Fewer Recessions Thanks to the Shale Revolution
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The shale revolution and ramping US oil production brings a new level of stability to US and world economic systems. -
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Heartland Weekly: Canceling Student Debt Would Be a Big Mistake
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of January 27, 2020 -
California Cities Embrace ‘Community-Choice Electricity’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Officials in Irvine, California are inviting four other Orange County municipalities to join their city in a comprehensive government-run electric power management scheme known as a community choice aggregation or community choice energy. -
Doctors’ Salaries Are Up, But Specialists Outpace Primary-Care Physicians, New Data Show
Opinion -health-care-news, News -America’s doctors and advanced practitioners are taking home fatter paychecks, but the earnings of primary-care physicians continue to lag well behind those of their specialist colleagues, -
Pacific Research Institute Warns Americans of Dangers of Socialized Medicine
Opinion -health-care-news, News -If there is a robust discussion on the dangers of socialized medicine in the United States, chances are the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is front and center.
