Opinion
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New Book Presents Solutions for Financially Insolvent Entitlement Programs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Provides straightforward explanations and direct, simple solutions to the nation’s entitlements crisis. -
Congress Considers D.C. Child Safety Account Bill
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -H.R. 2538 would establish a Child Safety Account (CSA) program in the District of Columbia. -
Cities Turning to Non-Green Options to Handle Recyclable Material After China Halts Imports
Opinion -environment-climate-news -China’s decision ban recyclable waste imports is resulting in some U.S. cities beginning to burn or bury recyclable material rather than pay the higher prices to recycling companies. -
Colorado Eliminates Bail for Petty Crimes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Colorado has enacted a law eliminating pretrial bail for cases involving minor offenses. -
Costly Wind Power Menaces Man and Nature
Opinion -Editorial -The true costs of wind energy are too often (deliberately?) ignored or underestimated. -
FDA Approves Biotech Firm’s Genetically Modified Salmon Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided to permit Massachusetts biotech firm AquaBounty to begin importing genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs to be raised at its private, land-based facilities. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Applauds Letter Urging FDA Reform by U.S. Sens. Cruz, Paul, Braun, and Lee
Opinion -Press Release -Senators ask Food & Drug Administration to Embrace ‘Parallel Track’ for Live-saving Drugs, a Keystone of Heartland’s ‘Free to Choose Medicine’ Reform -
Government Schools: Intentionally, We Don’t Understand Math Or English
Opinion -Editorial -Decades of government schools (kindergarten through grade 12) have poisoned America’s intellectual well. -
Make Those Nasty Drivers Pay!
Opinion -Editorial -Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.” -
Court Considers Challenge to Class Action Settlements
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Frank v. Gaos Challenges Abuse of Class Action Settlements -
Heartland Weekly: Free To Choose Medicine Offers Hope for Patients
Opinion -Editorial -Week of May 13, 2019 -
More Doctors Choosing Hospitals over Private Practices
Opinion -News -Physicians are increasingly leaving private practices to join hospital networks, states a new report from the Physicians Advocacy Institute. -
More States Consider Regulation to Curb Surprise Medical Bills
Opinion -News -Following Arizona’s lead, Georgia, Texas, and Washington State are considering bans or mandated arbitration and price transparency in response to consumer complaints about surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers. -
Oklahoma Seeks Medicaid Audit
Opinion -News -Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt requested an audit of the state’s Medicaid program to determine whether enrollees meet federal eligibility requirements. -
Generic Price Gouging Decision Upheld
Opinion -News -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Maryland’s 2017 law that allowed the attorney general to review and regulate price increases of generic or off-patent drugs. -
Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times
Opinion -News -Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, giving new vigor to legislative arguments supporting telemedicine. -
Trump Administration Proposes Major Cuts in Federal Science Programs
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Setting up what is certain to be a bruising showdown with Congress over Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 spending, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal recommends significant funding reductions in science programs at a slew of federal agencies. -
Warming Temperature Measurements Polluted by Bad Data, Research Confirms
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #323 -
Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk
Opinion -Editorial -That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible. -
Should We Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%?
Opinion -Editorial -Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15% -
All Socialisms Are Antisocial
Opinion -Editorial -Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world. -
National Association of Arrogant Calculating Phonies
Opinion -Editorial -Renegade locals fight California state NAACP and national board over anti-charter school stance. -
States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First
Opinion -Editorial -For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology. -
Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?
Opinion -Editorial -It appears that the authors of the Susskind et al. paper were motivated by timing and opportunity. It was crafted to advance an agenda, not climate science.
