Opinion
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States, Localities Face High Wind Turbine Decommissioning Costs
Opinion -Wind turbine producers and wind energy facility operators are facing challenges finding ways to recycle or dispose of the materials from large wind turbines, especially the composite blades, as landfills are increasingly refusing to accept turbine blades. -
Congress Considers Bills to Address Doctor Residency Shortage
Opinion -Lawmakers in Congress have introduced bills to add 1,000 new hospital residencies over the next five years to combat a national physician shortage intensified by the opioid crisis. -
FDA Nominee Grilled about Agency’s Drug Approval Process
Opinion -The U.S. Senate considers the nomination of Stephen Hahn to head the FDA. -
Beacon Hill Institute’s Tax Analysis Modeling Program Brings Results
Opinion -Profile of a partner organization in the freedom movement -
Interview: Air Ambulance Access Under Threat from Congress
Opinion -In response to public outcry over “surprise medical bills,” Congress is considering the Lower Health Care Costs Act, reported out of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee -
Policy Institute Profiles: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Opinion -The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a nonprofit public policy organization with a mission to promote both freedom and fairness by making good policy into smart politics. -
Wyoming Requests Medicaid Pay for All Air Ambulance Flights
Opinion -Wyoming, a state with expansive plains and a sparse population, is working on a plan through the Section 1115 waiver process to have the federal government cover air ambulance transportation through Medicaid for all state residents, regardless of income. -
Strike Against GM Ends, UAW President Resigns Amid Corruption Probe
Opinion -GM lost billions, and workers gained little. -
Heartland Institute Challenges COP25
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #344 -
The Dangerous Winds of Trying to Prevent Climate Change
Opinion -Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly. -
Federal Judge Orders CMS to End Site-Neutral Reimbursement Policy
Opinion -Reaffirming her earlier ruling against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) site-neutral pay policy, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer on October 21 rejected CMS’s request that it be allowed to develop its own remedy. -
The Grapes of Climate Wrath
Opinion -Recently, this billboard was spotted in the DC Metro Subway by Heartland Senior Fellow Edward Hudgins. -
American Geophysical Union: Ethically Challenged, Politically Motivated
Opinion -In my opinion, this entire event represented the most shameful and shocking lapse of ethics I’ve ever seen in a scientific organization. -
Climate Alarmists Wage a War of Words, but Where’s the Beef?
Opinion -Looking back, the climate alarmist’s movement started with Al Gore’s 2007 movie when he proclaimed the eminent extinction of the polar bears due to global warming. -
Wasserman’s Twisted Tale About the Austrian School of Economics
Opinion -The Austrian School of Economics has been one of the most original and insightful approaches to economic understanding over the last century and a half. -
Oregon Ballot Initiatives Target Fossil Fuels
Opinion -Environmental groups are pushing to place before the voters in November 2020 three ballot initiatives to ban the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity in Oregon. -
President’s Executive Order Increases Freedom Under Medicare—But There’s More to Be Done
Opinion -President Trump, thank you very much for Section 11, Maximizing Freedom for Medicare Patients and Providers, of your Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors. -
Policy Institute Profiles: Institute for Policy Innovation
Opinion -The Institute for Policy Innovation was created in 1987 to analyze and promote pro-growth economic policies, stressing the importance of free markets, low taxes, and limited government. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Experts React to Exxon Climate Case Victory in New York
Opinion -“Unable to prevail in the court of scientific debate or the court of public opinion, climate alarmists made a desperate attempt to prevail in courts of law. They failed spectacularly, as they have everywhere else, which is fitting.” - James Taylor -
California Reclassifies Contractors as Employees, Targeting the Sharing Economy
Opinion -A.B. 5 is expected to affect up to one million contract workers statewide and upend the business models of ridesharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft. -
Role of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants to Expand Under Medicare
Opinion -President Donald Trump signed an executive order to allow nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to practice under their full scope as Medicare providers. -
Texas Public Policy Foundation Aims to Get It ‘Right on Health Care’
Opinion -Editor’s note: Each month, Health Care News will be profiling a national and state-based public policy organization working to advance freedom in the health care market so that consumers and providers can all be winners. -
Benjamin Rush Institute Exposes Medical Students to Free Market Medicine
Opinion -Editor’s note: Each month, Health Care News will be profiling a national and state-based public policy organization working to advance freedom in the health care market so that consumers and providers can all be winners. -
How Climate Alarmists Killed Their Own UN Conference in Chile
Opinion -Riots in Chile forced Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to announce on that Chile could no longer host a United Nations climate conference scheduled for December.
