Opinion
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Despite Medicaid Expansion Defeat, Montana Governor Includes It in 2020–21 Budget
Opinion -Montana’s governor is attempting to continue the state’s Medicaid expansion program, even though voters in the 2018 election rejected a ballot initiative to continue it. -
Are Norway and Sweden Socialist Countries?
Opinion -Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the new face of the progressive left, says she wants socialism as it is practiced in Norway and Sweden, not as it is or was practiced in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela. -
Let’s Not Let One Billionaire Crony Decide What Fifty States Do About Online Gambling
Opinion -We less government types love federalism – rightly defined, of course. -
United States to Withdraw from Universal Postal Union
Opinion -UPU requires USPS to subsidize Chinese shipments to U.S. -
How to Reform Health Care When Congress Is Divided
Opinion -With Democrats having a majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, it will be nearly impossible for federal lawmakers on either side of the aisle to replace the Affordable Care Act in the next two years. -
‘Green New Deal’ Threatens Prosperity
Opinion -Many Democrats are becoming more open about their socialist inclinations, although they still lie about socialism’s ability to make the world a better place. -
San Francisco Wants To Devastate Its Economy To Help the Homeless
Opinion -For decades, San Francisco’s Silicon Valley has been a technology incubator. -
A Health Care Choice for Americans: Promised Convenience or Guaranteed Lower Costs
Opinion -In 2019, Americans should expect the health care war to enter a new and more divisive chapter. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Bars County Energy Restrictions
Opinion -State law preempts Oklahoma counties from unilaterally restricting energy development, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled. -
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates and a Cashless Economy
Opinion -The recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the world have raised the question of when the next recession will come. -
Patients Suffer When States Limit Health-Care Choices
Opinion -Over the past several decades, American families have experienced skyrocketing health-care costs. -
Uneducated: Why American Education Is Fundamentally Flawed
Opinion -Mediocrity has become normalized and institutionalized. -
Climate-Modeling Illusions Not Based on Reality
Opinion -For three decades, global warming alarmists have harassed society with stories of gloom and doom as a result of the carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuel. -
So What If ACA Is Unconstitutional?
Opinion -Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. -
Ryan Zinke Accomplished Much During His Short Tenure
Opinion -Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stepped down after a relatively short stint on the job. Like most members of President Trump’s cabinet, Zinke’s two-year tenure atop the Department of the Interior was full of remarkable achievements. -
Judge Rules Tennessee Can’t Revoke Driver’s Licenses for Failure to Pay Fines
Opinion -State laws fail to consider ability to pay -
Many Republican Climate Solutions Caucus Members Suffer Defeat in Midterm Elections
Opinion -A large number of Republican members of the Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus lost their seats in the November midterm elections. -
Emergency Room Costs Increased by Nearly One-Third in Four Years
Opinion -The number of patient visits to U.S. emergency rooms increased by 31 percent from 2012 to 2016, a new study reports. -
Vermont’s ‘OneCare’ All-Payer System Beset by Problems
Opinion -OneCare Vermont—the state’s all-payer health care network that works in tandem with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial, and self-funded insurance programs —is coming under increased scrutiny, as administrators failed to release data on the program. -
Prodding Trump’s EPA to Reexamine Endangerment
Opinion -Use external pressure to overcome Administration inertia on reviewing Endangerment Finding. -
Classical Liberalism and the Limits to Compromise
Opinion -The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions. -
North Carolina Voters Enshrine Hunting, Fishing As Constitutional Rights
Opinion -North Carolina voters passed a ballot initiative establishing hunting and fishing as rights protected in the state’s constitution. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Comments on Florida Court Ruling on Tax Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -“The plaintiffs, repeatedly defeated politically, turned to the courts. Thankfully, the courts rejected their attempted political end run around the state’s legislature.” -
California’s New Privacy Law is No Model for the Nation
Opinion -The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another.
