Opinion
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Congress Considers Targeting Secondary Patents on Prescription Drugs
Opinion -In another sign of growing impatience with the high cost of prescription drugs, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House that would limit pharmaceutical companies’ ability to delay the entry of generic drugs into the market. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
Regulatory Overlap Reform and Federalism
Opinion -The Business Roundtable, an influential association of leading U.S. CEOs working to promote a vibrant U.S. economy through sound public policy, published Reducing Regulatory Overlap in the 21st Century. -
USDA Agencies to Move from Washington, D.C. to Kansas City Region
Opinion -Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is moving two units of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) out of Washington, D.C. to the Kansas City region in Kansas and Missouri. -
Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering
Opinion -At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. -
Congress Considers Bill Targeting Hospital Consolidation
Opinion -The national discussion on what to do about surprise medical bills has overshadowed a bill in Congress that would freeze the practice of hospital consolidation whereby large companies buy smaller hospitals and then raise their prices. -
FAIR Care Act Generates Further Reform Measures on Capitol Hill
Opinion -A bill intended to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage and reduce insurance premium prices is gaining some traction on Capitol Hill with the introduction of several related bills. -
U.S. Treasury Rule Foils States’ Attempts to Circumvent Tax Deductibility Cap
Opinion -The U.S. Treasury has stymied efforts by high-tax states to circumvent the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT) on federal tax returns. -
Congress, Trump Administration Consider Student Borrowing Changes
Opinion -Payments on 6.2 percent of the total amount of outstanding federal loans are delinquent or in collection, not including cancelled loans or deferred repayments. -
Heartland Weekly: Frank Lasee Elected President of Heartland
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San Francisco Bans E-Cigarettes
Opinion -San Francisco has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes. -
Wisconsin Lawmakers Continue to Resist Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -Lawmakers in Wisconsin are resisting calls to expand Medicaid in the wake of a report by the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) claiming expansion would lower premiums in the individual health insurance market by 7 to 11 percent. -
New Texas Law Expands School Security Measures
Opinion -Texas has enacted a law allowing more personnel to carry guns in schools and expanding threat assessment and campus security measures. -
Food Trucks Finally Allowed in Downtown Fort Pierce, Florida
Opinion -"Economic freedom is a fundamental right that benefits the community." -
Ohio Senators Push Measure to End Surprise Medical Bills, Improve Price Transparency
Opinion -The Ohio Senate is trying to tackle rising medical costs with provisions in the chamber’s version of the state’s budget that would ban surprise medical bills and require hospitals and health care providers to be more transparent in their pricing. -
Blaine, Busing and Educational Freedom
Opinion -Thanks to Kamala Harris and the state of Montana, school choice is back in the news. -
Bernie’s Labor Pains: Three Takeaways
Opinion -Bernie Sanders is having trouble with his unionized--and apparently underpaid--labor force. -
$15 Federal Minimum Wage Could Cost 3.7 Million Jobs, CBO Reports
Opinion -The Raise the Wage Act would also eliminate the federal minimum wage for tipped workers. -
Learning Liberty and the Power of Principles
Opinion -It is never possible to know beforehand or with full certainty whether right ideas will win out in a particular place and at any particular time. -
Frank Lasée Elected President of The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Former Wisconsin State Legislator, Member of Scott Walker Administration Takes Reins at 35-year-old National Free-Market Think Tank -
U.S. Senate Considers Reversing Supreme Court Patent Rulings
Opinion -A U.S. Senate panel is considering a bipartisan proposal that could broaden patent protection on discoveries involving natural processes, including human genes. -
Reinsurance, Direct Primary Care Can Improve Georgia’s Health Care Market, Study Finds
Opinion -Establishing a reinsurance program for the individual health insurance market and requiring large insurers to offer direct primary care coverage in their plans could help Georgia address “continuing problems” in the state’s health care system, a new study -
Employers Take Steps to Rein in Rising Health Insurance Costs
Opinion -No longer content to let government, hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies shape the nation’s health care system, employers are showing a growing willingness to rein in rising medical costs on their own, concludes a new report by the PwC Health Rese -
Never Have US Health Professionals Been So Foolish
Opinion -The belief that changing light bulbs, driving electric cars, and erecting wind turbines can improve human health is as medieval as the belief that bloodletting can cure disease.
