Opinion
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City of Dallas Studies Home Rental Regulations
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The City of Dallas is considering regulating rentals, while Austin fights in court for its ordinance. -
The "Bootleggers and Baptists" of the Coronavirus Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -What will the long-term effects of the coronavirus be? Darren Brady Nelson breaks it down and compares it to prohibition era bootlegging. -
Maine Lawmakers Push for Expensive Electric School Bus Purchases
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Citing an impending “climate crisis,” Maine state Sen. Eloise Vitelli introduced as emergency legislation a bill setting a goal for the state Department of Education to transition the school bus fleet to 100 percent electric buses by 2040. -
Patients Encounter Loopholes with Colorado’s Insulin Cap
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Patients in Colorado are learning the state’s insulin price cap, which went into effect January, is not all it’s cracked up to be. -
Capitalism and Its Intellectual Property: No Coronavirus Solution Without It
Opinion -Editorial -Capitalism is the best solution to deal with the Coronavirus. -
Illinois Takes Steps to Control the Price of Insulin
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law that caps the out-of-pocket price of insulin at $100 for a 30-day supply. -
To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
Opinion -Editorial -The Coronavirus outbreak will bring long-lasting lessons to all people of Earth. The one message we must fight is that big government solved the crisis. -
Appeals Court Upholds Rejection of Arkansas Medicaid Work Rule
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 2019 lower court decision that blocked Arkansas from implementing a work rule designed to help able-bodied Medicaid enrollees back into the workforce. -
Partners in Liberty: National Center for Public Policy Research
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was created not to be just another think tank but rather a “do tank” providing the freedom movement with what its founders called “missing ingredients for success.” -
Medicaid Transparency Rule is Raising Hackles of States, Providers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Governors, health care providers, and several lawmakers want the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to retract a rule designed to increase transparency in Medicaid spending. -
Commentary: Unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Exercises Illegitimate Power
Opinion -budget-tax-news -the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will soon be at the center of a Supreme Court battle over the fundamental nature of the Constitution’s separation of powers. -
Oklahoma Mulls Tax Credit to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Oklahoma legislators are considering a bill that would allow physicians to claim a $25,000 tax credit if they practice in underserved, rural communities. -
Annual Individual Health Care Spending Reaches New High, Report Finds
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Average annual health care spending for people with employer-sponsored insurance rose to an all-time high in 2018, according to a recent report. -
Harrisburg Nixes Water System Sale, Bucking Trend
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Harrisburg is just one of several U.S. cities that considered water utility privatization in 2019, but other municipalities took the step. -
Oklahoma Governor Embraces Medicaid Block Grant Proposal
Opinion -health-care-news, News -To underscore his commitment to Medicaid block grants, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt joined the Trump administration in Washington D.C for the “Healthy Adult Opportunity” announcement and said his state will be the first to sign up. -
CMS Unveils New Trump Administration Policy on Medicaid Block Grants
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration is moving to give states unprecedented leeway by revamping key sections of Medicaid, the federal health care program for low-income and disabled people. -
Shortage of Psych Beds Puts Spotlight on Michigan’s CON Law
Opinion -health-care-news, News -As Michigan continues to struggle with how to address its lack of available beds in its psychiatric hospital in Caro, Michigan, the legislature is proceeding with hearings on legislation to exempt, among other areas, psychiatric beds from CON approval. -
Commentary: FDA’s New Commissioner Needs to Shed Bloat, Put Patients First
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Now that the Trump Administration’s new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Dr. Stephen Hahn, has been confirmed, -
Second Street.org Spotlights Socialized Medicine from Canadian Viewpoint
Opinion -health-care-news, News -When senior citizen Jenny Mackenzie of Vancouver, Canada learned it would take two years to receive hip surgery, it was SecondStreet.org that brought her tale of woe to the public’s attention. -
Nothing’s ‘Impossible’ When It Comes To Innovation
Opinion -Editorial -Meeting Americans’ needs, especially those of the neediest, requires free markets that can realize and reward the benefits of technological innovations, big and small. -
Supreme Court to Decide Safety Requirements on Abortion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In what promises to be a landmark ruling on a highly charged issue, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case, -
Supreme Court Sidelines Review of ACA Constitutionality as Law Approaches Ten Years
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The U.S. Supreme Court said it will not fast-track a request by 19 states to take on a decision by a federal appeals court that ruled Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional -
Washington state Supreme Court Blocks Greenhouse Gas Limits for Some Businesses
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Washington state’s Supreme Court invalidated portions of the state Department of Ecology’s (DEC) rules applying greenhouse gas emission caps to indirect emitters such as natural gas companies and fuel distributers. -
The Freedom to Pump Gas
Opinion -Editorial -Illinois state representative Camille Lilly recently sponsored a bill to restrict self-service gasoline stations. Would creating jobs for gas station attendants be good economics?
