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Feds Want Us to Live Like Children
Opinion -We spend the first part of our lives trying to grow up, and, apparently, millions of us spend the rest of our lives hoping to live like children. How else to explain the desire to “save” Social Security and Medicare? -
Obama Doubles Down on Rationing
Opinion -Seniors, beware. Buried in the President’s April deficit speech was a plan to give even more power to the Medicare rationing board created in his health-overhaul law. -
Heartland Institute Legal Expert Can Talk About New HEALTH Act, Tort Reform
Opinion -Congress is considering a tort reform bill approved Wednesday (5-11-2011), by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. H.R. -
Gold Would Discipline Both Federal Government and Wall Street
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Experts React to Microsoft Purchase of Skype
Opinion -Microsoft today announced it will purchase Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. -
AT&T Seeks Approval for $39 Billion T-Mobile Bid
Opinion -AT&T says its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile will bring LTE (long-term evolution) coverage to 97 percent of the United States—representing an additional 55 million customers—and make it the largest wireless network in the United -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute to Host School Reform Policy Forum in Trenton Thursday
Opinion -The Heartland Institute is sponsoring a Policy Forum, titled “Realistic Reforms for New Jersey Schools,” in Trenton, New Jersey on Thursday, May 12 featuring state Sen. -
Virtual Charter School Bill Passes in Indiana
Opinion -The Indiana legislature has passed a bill permitting virtual charter schools to serve students throughout the state, regardless where they live. -
Spending, Debt Ceiling RallyTea Party to Take Down RINOs
Opinion -"We put you in and we can take you out" seems to be the message Tea Party leaders are sending Republicans in Congress.Tea Party leaders referred to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) as "John Maynard Boehner" and called Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Institute Statement on Today’s Obamacare Hearing in Federal Court
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today heard arguments in lawsuits against President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The lawsuits claim the mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. -
Obama’s ‘Wealth’ Benchmark Hurts the Middle Class Most
Opinion -Consider a two-income family of public school teachers each earning about $60,000 a year. With a combined income of $120,000, are they "the wealthy"?Most people probably would say they are not. -
Starbucks CEO Switches View on Obamacare’s Employer Mandate
Opinion -In the latest round of public opinion shifts among employers regarding President Obama’s health care law, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has done an about-face. -
#271: Transparency Is Relative
Opinion -Today, Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner has a report on open government issues that follows on prior stories about the lack of transparency in the creation of Obamacare. -
Heartland Criticizes Legislature’s Inaction on Meaningful Property Insurance Reform: ‘An Epic Disappointment’
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE—The Florida director of The Heartland Institute offered tepid praise for a limited property insurance reform bill that passed Florida’s Senate late Thursday evening and now goes to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk for a signature. -
Inpatient Balance Billing is an Unfair Medical Practice
Opinion -My wife has spent nearly a month in the hospital over the past year, and this has given me experience with a practice among doctors called inpatient balance billing. -
Lee County, Florida Tries More of What Caused Crisis
Opinion -During much of the 2000s, Lee County, Florida experienced some of the nation’s steepest climbs in housing prices. Since then housing prices there have dropped off the cliff. -
It’s Called ‘Inflation’ When More Dollars are Needed to Print More Dollars
Opinion -Does anybody besides Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke really believe the U.S. economy is not suffering from increasingly serious inflation? -
Walker: Big Brother is Watching
Opinion -Our government has increasingly got things upside-down when it comes to information technology policy, and this topsy-turvy, reality-inverting attitude is especially evident with respect to privacy issues. -
Maybe Neighborhood Grocers Should Set U.S. Economic Policy
Opinion -America would be a better country and we would have better lives if the Federal Reserve were as trustworthy as our local grocery store. When you buy something from a grocer like a pound of hamburger, you expect to receive 16 ounces of meat. -
Louisiana Joins Eight Other States Seeking MLR Waivers
Opinion -Louisiana is the most recent state to seek a waiver from the medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements in President Obama’s health care law from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. -
Obama’s Message: The Bureaucrats Will Save Us
Opinion -In response to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposed Path to Prosperity, President Barack Obama delivered a hastily constructed address to the nation last week stressing that he too has a plan to cut the federal budget deficit. -
In Illinois, It’s a Felony to Film Police
Opinion -Chicago’s Operation Virtual Shield is the most extensive video surveillance network in the United States, linking more than 3,000 surveillance cameras to a centralized monitoring system so powerful it can zoom in to read the text of a book. -
UK Austerity Offers Inspiration and Reveals Difficult Political Reality for US
Opinion -With its government shutdown-averting budget compromise in April, the United States government made its first tentative turn towards austerity. For David Cameron’s United Kingdom government, this theme is now fully developed. -
Media Advisory: Heartland Institute Reacts to Report Greenland Ice Melt Dangerously Accelerating
Opinion -A new study by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) claims Greenland is undergoing accelerating ice melt that will cause global sea level to rise much faster than projected by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
