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Heartland Weekly: Free To Choose Medicine Offers Hope for Patients

Published May 20, 2019

By Jim Lakely

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Week of May 13, 2019
- Health Care
More Doctors Choosing Hospitals over Private Practices

Published May 17, 2019

By Ashley Herzog

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Physicians are increasingly leaving private practices to join hospital networks, states a new report from the Physicians Advocacy Institute.
- Health Care
More States Consider Regulation to Curb Surprise Medical Bills

Published May 17, 2019

By AnneMarie Schieber

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Following Arizona’s lead, Georgia, Texas, and Washington State are considering bans or mandated arbitration and price transparency in response to consumer complaints about surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers.
Oklahoma Seeks Medicaid Audit

Published May 17, 2019

By AnneMarie Schieber

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt requested an audit of the state’s Medicaid program to determine whether enrollees meet federal eligibility requirements.
- Health Care
Generic Price Gouging Decision Upheld

Published May 17, 2019

By AnneMarie Schieber

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Maryland’s 2017 law that allowed the attorney general to review and regulate price increases of generic or off-patent drugs.
- Health Care
Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times

Published May 17, 2019

By Leo Pusateri

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Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, giving new vigor to legislative arguments supporting telemedicine.
Trump Administration Proposes Major Cuts in Federal Science Programs

Published May 17, 2019

By Bonner R. Cohen

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Setting up what is certain to be a bruising showdown with Congress over Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 spending, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal recommends significant funding reductions in science programs at a slew of federal agencies.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Warming Temperature Measurements Polluted by Bad Data, Research Confirms

Published May 16, 2019

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Climate Change Weekly #323
- Economy
Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk

Published May 15, 2019

By Jeffrey A. Tucker

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That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible.
- Government Spending
- Economy
Should We Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%?

Published May 15, 2019

By Art Carden

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Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15%
- Government & Politics
- Government & Liberty
All Socialisms Are Antisocial

Published May 15, 2019

By Richard Ebeling

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Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.
- Education
National Association of Arrogant Calculating Phonies

Published May 15, 2019

By Larry Sand

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Renegade locals fight California state NAACP and national board over anti-charter school stance.
- Health Care
States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First

Published May 15, 2019

By AnneMarie Schieber

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For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?

Published May 15, 2019

By Anthony Watts

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It appears that the authors of the Susskind et al. paper were motivated by timing and opportunity. It was crafted to advance an agenda, not climate science.
- Environment & Energy
Wisconsin Professor’s Anti-Fracking Agenda Exposed

Published May 15, 2019

By Linnea Lueken

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A professor and group of student researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire claim they found elevated particulate levels associated with frac-sand mining.
- Environment & Energy
Colorado Adopts Strict Anti-Drilling Legislation

Published May 14, 2019

By Linnea Lueken

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law sweeping oil and gas legislation which that allows imposing greater restrictions on new oil and gas exploration in the state than a proposition voters rejected in a 2018 election referendum.
Heartland Weekly – Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?

Published May 13, 2019

By Billy Aouste

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Week of May 6, 2019
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Sorry Kids—The Next Energy Alternative Is Not Here Yet

Published May 13, 2019

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With present technology, renewable energy sources can’t replace energy from deep earth minerals and fuels. Global economies increase, not decrease, their use of fossil fuels each year.
- Economy
When Two Companies Control 90% Of The Market – It’s Not A Free Market

Published May 10, 2019

By Seton Motley

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Many self-described free marketeers vociferously oppose antitrust laws.
- Government Spending
- Economy
No, Mr. President, Tariffs Do Not Cause Prosperity

Published May 10, 2019

By Jeffrey A. Tucker

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The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
The Weird Reality of World Climate Policy

Published May 10, 2019

By Alan Carlin

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Climate policies vary greatly by country.
- Government & Politics
- Government & Liberty
The Fallacy of a Government Shutdown, the Reality of Freedom Lost

Published May 9, 2019

By Richard Ebeling

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Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018.
- Government Spending
- Economy
Hey Government: Stop Looking For New Ways To Tax Us – Instead Cut Spending

Published May 9, 2019

By Seton Motley

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The federal government is constantly setting new records for income tax money fleeced from We the People.
L.A. City Council Votes to Require Contractors to Disclose NRA Ties

Published May 9, 2019

By Ashley Herzog

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“The First Amendment protects the right to free speech and association"