Opinion
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Heartland Weekly – Oregon Senate Republicans Strike Back
Opinion -Week of July 24, 2019 -
House Moves to Block President from Leaving Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to block President Donald Trump’s decision to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. -
North Carolina Lawmakers Continue to Disagree on Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -Plans to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional North Carolina residents remain in limbo, with lawmakers arguing over how to pay for the program and whether the expansion should include a work requirement. -
Finding Best Doctors Is Not Easy When Government Interferes
Opinion -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have put aside grandiose thoughts of Medicare for All and single-payer health insurance—at least for a day or two. -
The Misleading Conclusions from the 4th National Climate Assessment
Opinion -Despite all the doomsday descriptions, the projected costs of climate change found in Volume 2 of the Fourth National Climate Assessment are actually paltry in the big picture of things. -
Public Is Highly Worried About Health Care Costs, Poll Finds
Opinion -One in four Americans either skipped health care treatment in the last 12 months or borrowed money to pay for it, a national survey by West Health Policy Center and Gallup finds. -
Illinois Considers Creating Board to Reject Insurance Price Increases
Opinion -The Illinois House passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Department of Insurance to reject health insurance price increases it deems unreasonable. -
Medicare for All Will Mean Waiting Lines, Rationing, Worse Care
Opinion -There is no question that many millions of Americans are frustrated with our current health care system. -
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. -
Opposition Tactics, Protests, Stop Oregon Climate Bill … for Now
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #328 -
Oregon Senate Republicans Fought The Law—And The Public, Not The Law, Won
Opinion -In a small victory (for sanity) in the ongoing climate wars, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) admitted defeat in his and Gov. Kate Brown’s attempt to force unwilling Republicans to vote on a controversial cap-and-trade bill. -
House Bill to Reduce Wildfires Held Up by Committee Chair
Opinion -Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Congress’ only professional forester, has introduced the 2019 Resilient Federal Forests Ac, to improve forest management and reduce the economic and environmental damage caused by wildfires. -
New Rule Requires Drug Companies to State Prices in Ads
Opinion -America’s $450 billion-a-year drug industry is about to get a new wrinkle as a rule finalized in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires all pharmaceutical companies to include the list prices of their drugs and biological p -
Study: Fracking Isn’t Causing Health Problems for PA School Children
Opinion -A new study of natural gas production near two schools in Washington County, Pennsylvania finds no evidence emissions pose a health risk to the kids attending the schools. -
Legislative Pulse Lawmaker Critiques California’s $98 Million per Year Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Adults
Opinion -Editor’s Note: California lawmakers reached a budget deal on June 9 that will extend full-scope Medicaid benefits to low-income adults age 19 to 26 regardless of U.S. citizenship or legal immigrant status. -
Reaction to Measles Outbreak Raises Informed-Consent Issues
Opinion -Government imposed fines, jail time and other measures to increase measles vaccination rates is calling into question the wisdom and ethics behind such measures. -
Illinois Considers Creating Board to Reject Insurance Price Increases
Opinion -The Illinois House passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Department of Insurance to reject health insurance price increases it deems unreasonable. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Invites Jay Inslee to Debate a Climate Scientist in DC on July 25
Opinion -In Democratic Debate Wednesday Night, Climate Champion Jay Inslee Said Man-Caused Global Catastrophe Is a 'Moral Certainty' - Scientists at July 25 Climate Conference Ready to Challenge Inslee's Assertion with Latest Climate Data -
Organization Spreads Pro-Freedom Ideas in Medical Schools
Opinion -In a time when 51 percent of millennials say they have a positive view of socialism, there is an organization spreading the word of free markets and capitalism in one of the sectors most vulnerable to government command and control: health care. -
CMS Offers Flat-Fee Payment Model for Medicare Providers
Opinion -The Trump administration is trying to help lower Medicare costs by offering primary care doctors a flat fee instead of the fee-for-service model currently in place. -
Interior Department Acts to Expedite Some Federal Facility Title Transfers
Opinion -In an effort to boost water development and the maintenance of water projects on federal lands, the U.S. Interior Department has taken steps to make it easier to transfer water projects on federal land to users of the water. -
Expanding HSAs Could Help Fix America’s Broken Health Insurance Model
Opinion -A recent survey revealed only one in five people currently enrolled in an employer-sponsored health plan have a health savings account (HSA). More unsettling, few use them to save money for future health expenses. -
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Issues New Clean Air Rule
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has formally replaced the prior administration’s Clean Power Plan, to reduce power plant greenhouse gas emissions, with the Affordable Clean Energy rule. -
WebMD Misleads on Agriculture and Climate Change
Opinion -Some readers of a recent article published by WebMD titled “Will Climate Change Cause Food Sources to Dwindle?” might be fooled into thinking the author intends to carefully weigh the evidence about this important topic.
