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Consumer Power Report #83
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
Media Advisory: Statement on Tennessee Tobacco Tax
Opinion -(Chicago IL - June 7, 2007) On Monday, June 4, the Tennessee House of Representatives sent a $230 million cigarette tax bill to Gov. Phil Bredesen. -
Illegal Immigration Not the Cause of Unemployment Among Blacks
Opinion -Letter to the editor: Sun-Times The conventional wisdom is that illegal immigration hurts blacks and the poor. -
Obama Offers Bargain-Basement Solution to Health Care
Opinion -Dear Editor: Robin Toner reports on Sen. Barack Obama’s May 29 speech in Iowa, proposing his plans for health care reform. Sen. -
Franchise Reform Should Include Lower Telecom Taxes
Opinion -Dear Editor: The 113-0 vote in the Illinois House of Representatives in favor of cable TV franchise reform sends a welcome message to consumers that state elected officials have embraced the competitive era. -
Boston Drops Anvil on Mosquitos
Opinion -Dear Editor: The May 29 article by Maria Cramer, “Mosquito Spraying Begins Again,” made no reference to the public health threat caused by over-zealous environmentalists. -
Farmers in Global Warming Alarmists’ Crosshairs
Opinion -When politicking in farm belt states, global warming alarmists frequently assert that restrictive global warming legislation will benefit farmers. -
Beck Documentary, ‘Exposed: The Climate of Fear,’ Available Online
Opinion -Exposed: The Climate of Fear, a documentary by Glen Beck that first aired on CNN News on May 2, 2007, offers a point of view about “man-made global warming” far different from what’s offered in the mainstream media. -
Public Pensions, Benefits Are Unsustainable: Reports
Opinion -In a new report on the benefits of public and private employment, "Public vs. Private Compensation," the Alabama Policy Institute writes, "over the years, public sector compensation rapidly outpaced that of the private sector. -
Consumer Power Report #82
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
Numerous Taxes Burden All Family Income Levels
Opinion -The following are some of the important findings in the study "Which Taxes Weigh Most Heavily on Americans with Different Incomes?" released March 26 by the Tax Foundation. -
Other States Take Up Transparency Measures
Opinion -Among the states in which legislation creating searchable Web sites for government expenditures has been introduced are Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. -
Kansas Seeks Free-Market Health Care Reform
Opinion -A free-market health care plan promising less government interference and no new taxes could be on the horizon in Kansas. KanCare, created by newly elected state Rep. -
Calorie Ordinance Poses Problems for New York Restaurants
Opinion -On March 1, Wendy's International, Inc. removed calorie counts from its New York City franchise menus--the unintended consequence of a poorly crafted ordinance requiring restaurants to publish the information for customers. -
United Healthcare’s Acquisition of Sierra Health
Opinion -Consumers for Health Care Choices raised some hackles with its letter in late March to the Justice Department opposing United Healthcare's acquisition of Sierra Health in Nevada. The complaints against us fell into three categories. -
Experts Discuss Medicaid Reform
Opinion -The need for Medicaid reform was the subject of a session in March at the 23rd Annual Washington Economic Policy Conference sponsored by the National Association for Business Economics. -
Open Letter Opposing S. 396 and S. 681
Opinion -March 19, 2007 The Honorable Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Secretary Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. -
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Opinion -The Great Risk Shift By Jacob S. -
U.S. Income Inequality Is Not Increasing
Opinion -Income and Wealth By Alan Reynolds Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006 231 pages, $55. -
HPV Vaccine Effort Encounters Strong Opposition
Opinion -Parents determined to resist an aggressive campaign by a major corporation and government bureaucracies were heartened this spring as a nationwide, orchestrated attempt to mandate the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for their 11- and 12-year-old -
States Attack Hospital-Acquired Infections
Opinion -When people enter a hospital for treatment, they typically expect to leave it either cured or doing much better. But according to the U.S. -
Michigan Offers Lifestyle Incentives for Medicaid Recipients
Opinion -If Michigan Medicaid recipients start leading healthier lifestyles, they could be rewarded with care benefits as a way to help the state control health care costs, if a plan the state Senate approved at the end of February gets the go-ahead from the -
New Study Favors More Government Health Care, Sparks Broad Skepticism
Opinion -In mid-March, a nonprofit group released a study finding two of the universal health care bills currently pending in the U.S. Congress would cover more uninsured Americans than President George W. Bush's tax break plan. -
Expanding Access Through Retail Health Clinics
Opinion -The retail health clinic model is a simple, effective innovation for providing health care service for routine medical conditions and preventive care, according to Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, a free-market think tank in Virginia.
