Opinion
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No Medicare for All for Illegals
Opinion -In short, providing Medicare for All to millions of illegal immigrants is immoral, impractical, and completely unaffordable. -
Millions Continue to Suffer from Alzheimer’s While FDA Lacks Efficiency
Opinion -Nearly six million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and more than 16 million Americans care for people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. -
EPA to ‘Aggressively Reduce’ Animal Testing
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it a policy to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, completely eliminating them by 2035. -
Congress Considers Prescription Drug Price Controls for Seniors
Opinion -A sweeping drug pricing bill pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been slowed by a disagreement between progressive and more moderate Democrats. -
Insurer Begins Covering Pharmacogenetic Testing Despite FDA Warning
Opinion -Parmacogenetic testing is a new field in prescription medicine. -
Heartland Weekly: Americans Don’t Want a Socialism
Opinion -Week of November 25, 2019 -
Western New York Counties Considering Restricting Wind Turbines
Opinion -Members of the Chautauqua County, New York Board of Health are considering a range of proposals to regulate or limit new industrial wind turbines. -
Lawsuit Challenges Illinois Policy on Vitamin K Shots for Newborns
Opinion -A group of parents filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), pediatricians, and several hospitals after their newborn babies were seized for hours when the parents declined vitamin K shots -
Maine Voters Will Decide Vaccine Exemptions on March Ballot
Opinion -A group of parents in Maine collected enough signatures to let voters decide whether to keep or repeal L.D. 798, the state’s recently enacted vaccine law eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions for most public-school students. -
Indiana, Arizona Stall on Medicaid Work Rule, Blaming Lawsuits
Opinion -Indiana and Arizona are holding off implementing their proposed Medicaid work requirements as lawsuits on the matter await resolution. -
Tennessee Makes Request to Become First Medicaid Block Grant State
Opinion -Eager to free their state from what they say is “excessive or unnecessary intervention in its Medicaid program,” officials in Tennessee are putting the final touches on a sweeping proposal to -
Med School Climate Change Curriculum Wastes Time, Money
Opinion -Medical groups are calling for medical schools to teach students about human caused climate change as part of their degree program. -
Physicians Offer Solutions for Clinician ‘Burnout’
Opinion -Physicians across the nation give their view on the causes of professional dissatisfaction and what can be done to fix it. -
Electronic Medical Records, Administrative Burdens Are Causing Physicians’ Fatigue
Opinion -I must admit I have mixed emotions about the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report. -
Health Care System Takes Heavy Toll on Nation’s Clinicians, Study Finds
Opinion -Long hours, a bureaucratic morass, and the constant threat of medical malpractice lawsuits are taking an increasingly alarming toll on the nation’s doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals and putting patients at risk, -
Heartland Weekly – Witnessing Climate Thuggery in Germany
Opinion -Week of November 18, 2019 -
Employer Wellness Program Is Illegal, Lawsuit Contends
Opinion -Employees of Yale University filed a class action lawsuit claiming the institution’s incentive for participation in wellness programs violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). -
Public’s Medicare for All Doubts Confront Presidential Candidates
Opinion -Candidates for the Democrat Party presidential nomination who have been defending the costs of their health care proposals are facing big doubts among their potential voters about their plans for a single-payer, Medicare for All system. -
Congressional Republicans Present Health Care Plan
Opinion -The Republican Study Committee (RSC) presented a 68-page plan to make health insurance more affordable, protect people with preexisting conditions, and give consumers more control over their care. -
Michigan Legislature Blocks CON Restriction on New Cancer Therapy
Opinion -The Michigan Legislature blocked an attempt by the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) Commission to limit access to a new treatment for some blood cancers, known as CAR-T cell therapy. -
FDA Nominee Brings Patient Care Perspective
Opinion -Confirmation hearings on Stephen Hahn began November 20. Hahn told the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, he will put science over politics. -
Government Title X Grants Come with a Big Price Tag
Opinion -The founder of a non-profit health care organization for women gives his reasons for saying "no" to federal Title X family planning grants -
Heartland Weekly: Green Energy Guts More Oil Market
Opinion -Week of November 11, 2019 -
Medicare for All Would Be Quite Costly to Middle Class Americans After All
Opinion -Sen. Elizabeth Warren, like most of the Democrats running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is all-in on Medicare for All (M4A).
