Opinion
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Senate Considers Bills to Reclaim Regulatory Authority
Opinion -On May 17, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent five bills to the full Senate that would reform how federal agencies implement rules and how such rules are finalized. -
Michigan Doctors Seek Protection from Private Certification Board
Opinion -Maintenance of certification requirements divert time and money away from patients, doctors say. -
Report: States Should Protect Free Speech in Medicine
Opinion -The Goldwater Institute report presents a pathway to letting manufacturers and doctors inform patients about off-label uses of drugs. -
Study: Large Employers Want Health Insurance Flexibility, Transparency
Opinion -It's time people knew the price of the health care services they use, employers say. -
Senate Passes VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act
Opinion -The bill would make it easier to terminate negligent employees. -
Telemedicine Compact Connects Doctors, Patients in Eight States
Opinion -Simple reciprocity would be even easier, but the compact could still help, experts say. -
Analysis: Mental Health Care Law Needs Further Improvement
Opinion -The law has provisions that make it unlikely the law will achieve its own goals, Dr. Emmons explains. -
Executive Order Leaves Room for Doubt About HHS Mandate
Opinion -The order could prove an eventual win for people who object to coercive federal health policy regulations. -
California Senate Approves $400 Billion Single-Payer Health Care System
Opinion -The bill ultimately failed, when a rational source of funding proved elusive. -
Millennial Group Proposes Obamacare Replacement Plan
Opinion -The next generation of leaders is fed up with Obamacare. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on New Senate Republican Health Reform Bill
Opinion -‘The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is hardly perfect or even a repeal of Obamacare. However, given the political realities facing the nation and the dire state of the health care market, the BCRA would be a positive step.’ – Justin Haskins -
‘We Are Still In’: Rahm Emanuel’s Futile and Stupid Virtue Signaling
Opinion -Emanuel, like Daley before him, will end up getting exactly what he wants: to take a victory lap and be feted for being an enlightened, progressive environmental steward, and to have no one notice when it all turns out to be a sham. -
Summer Is the Perfect Time to Practice Parent-Centered Education
Opinion -Keep your kid's brain engaged. -
Endangered Species Act Doesn’t Save Species
Opinion -But it does imperil property. -
Different Income Limits for Choice Programs Force Rural Families to Make Tough Decisions
Opinion -Unsatisfied with public options and above the income limit for school choice programs, Wisconsinites are working hard to make ends meet. -
Utah Teachers Union Sues to Prevent Public from Seeing Teachers’ Past Misconduct
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #185 -
Nevada’s New Net-Metering Policy Just Another Handout for Solar Power
Opinion -Electricity prices for people without solar panels are likely to increase in Nevada following Gov. Brian Sandoval’s decision. -
Homeschoolers Don’t Need Federal Help
Opinion -Washington should spare school choice its suffocating embrace. -
The Left’s Misleading Green Jobs Claims
Opinion -Renewable energy workers produce relatively little power. -
The United States Has No Fiscal Space Left
Opinion -The Great Recession and slower economic growth in recent years have been accompanied by a discontinuous increase in debt-to-GDP ratios in most countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), most notably the United States. -
As Think Tank Closes, Free-Market Legacy Burns Bright
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #551 -
Virginia’s McAuliffe Orders State Plan to Curb Power Plants’ Emissions
Opinion -Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has ordered the state’s air-quality regulators to draw up a comprehensive plan to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from Virginia’s power plants. -
Washington, D.C. Shuns Gun Law: Rep. Scalise Becomes a Victim
Opinion -Rep. Scalise is just the latest victim in a stream of violence in gun free cities. -
The Crisis of Integrity-Deficient Science
Opinion -The epidemic of agenda-driven science by press release and falsification has reached crisis proportions.