Opinion
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Consumer-Driven Health Care Workshop Scheduled for September 3
Opinion -Consumer-Driven Health Care Workshop Wednesday, September 3, 2008 8:00 - 10:30 a.m. -
The Phantom Subsidy
Opinion -In an effort to promote competition and encourage new insurers to enter the state, over the past 18 months the State of Florida has been providing up to $265 million in loans to private insurers willing to take policies from Citizens. -
Not Just a Giveaway
Opinion -In an insurance environment as dynamic and challenging as Florida’s, unique economic and environmental circumstances have led to a diverse mix of regulatory and funding programs designed to help homeowners weather wind and storm damages. -
Acton Institute to Preview New Film, ‘The Birth of Freedom,’ in Chicago
Opinion -The Acton Institute will premier its new documentary film, "The Birth of Freedom," on Thursday, September 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. -
Rescuing Students
Opinion -Editorial -The Chicago Tribune's August 7 editorial about Rev. Meeks’s idea of how to get more funds for Chicago Public Schools was on target and showed real concern for the black parents in the city. I don’t see how CPS will be able to intelligently respond to it. -
Heartland Institute Announces Board Changes
Opinion -The Heartland Institute, a national nonprofit research and education, announced the results of elections for positions on its Board of Directors, which took place during an annual meeting on August 4. -
Consumer Power Report #139
Opinion -I was in Chicago for three days this week for Heartland's President's Council Retreat. This was an appreciation of Heartland's major supporters and it was a fabulous event. It didn't go off without a hitch, but it certainly was memorable. -
Fixing Fannie and Freddie Likely Would Make Matters Worse
Opinion -In a time of a mortgage crisis, temptations abound to create new rules to "fix" the market and prevent future catastrophe. -
Bridges Fall While Pols Direct Money to Powerful Friends
Opinion -Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar (DFL) marked the August 1 anniversary of the fatal collapse of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis by pushing for higher motor fuel taxes to fix the nation’s bridges. -
When Will School Choice Come to the ‘Land of the Free’?
Opinion -While presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama was on his world tour, the world came to Newark, New Jersey and demonstrated how parental choice has become an engine of education reform around the globe. -
Capitalism and Clean Air
Opinion -Beginning on August 8 and lasting through to August 24, the world’s best athletes will gather in China for the Summer Olympics. All eyes will be on China and, in particular, on Beijing. -
More Global Cooling Ahead, Study Says
Opinion -Natural variations in climate, driven by shifting ocean currents, could lead to another decade of cooling global temperatures, according to a peer-reviewed study in the scientific journal Nature. -
Cold Temperatures Continue to Batter United States
Opinion -Cooling temperatures sent the United States into a deep freeze during the first half of 2008, resulting in some extraordinary weather events. -
Municipal Wireless Scuttled in California City Amid ‘Misplaced’ Public Health Concerns
Opinion -Plans for a municipal wireless network in Sebastopol, California have been abandoned amid growing concern in the community over wi-fi as a public health danger.Sebastopol had contracted with Sonic. -
Minnesota Governor Vetoes Legislature’s Chemical Ban
Opinion -Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical bisphenol-A from products that come into contact with children. -
Debunking Persistent Global Warming Myths
Opinion -The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher Horner Regnery, 2007, 366 pages, $19. -
Florida Passes Model Legislation Allowing More Health Insurance Choice
Opinion -Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has signed a bill allowing uninsured Floridians to purchase health insurance plans largely free of expensive, superfluous mandated coverages. -
Kids’ Obesity Rates Leveling Off
Opinion -Childhood obesity rates in the United States have leveled off after decades of increases, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). -
Rhode Island Legislators Get Health Insurance Stipend
Opinion -A new Rhode Island law may give the state's legislators a real advantage over their constituents when it comes to health insurance. The measure, sponsored by state Rep. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt (D-Woonsocket), took effect July 1. -
Wisconsin Insurance Providers Increase Cost Transparency
Opinion -Insurance-providing members of the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans have pledged to make health care costs more transparent to enrollees. -
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AHIP Cedes Initiative to Government in Health Care Overhaul Proposal
Opinion -America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association representing more than 1,300 health insurance providers, has offered a proposal it says could help the United States reduce total spending on health care by more than $145 billion in the next -
Arkansas Aims to Increase SCHIP Participation
Opinion -An Arkansas-based advocacy group has kicked off a new initiative intended to increase enrollment of the state's children in ARKids First, the state's federally funded Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). -
Kansas Legislature Rejects Big-Government Health Care
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) has signed into law a bill implementing several new health care initiatives, but most of the big-government provisions were rejected by the legislature before the measure reached the governor's desk.
