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  • Best Way to End Medicaid Waste: Give Enrollees Cash – Commentary

    Published June 5, 2025
    By Robert Koshnick, M.D.,
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    In their paper titled “Leveraging the Medicaid Expansion,” David Hyman and Charles Silver write, “We propose that rather than adhering to Medicaid’s traditional structure, where states pay providers at unreasonably low rates for treating beneficiaries, expansion projects should be modeled on Social Security and the Earned Income Tax Credit, both of which distribute money that […]

  • ‘Designer Babies’ through IVF Raise Critics’ Ethical Concerns

    Published June 4, 2025
    By Harry Painter
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    Genetic screening technology now allows parents employing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to select for certain traits, allowing them to avoid passing on diseases or undesirable traits to their children. Orchid, a genetic screening company that bills itself as “the world’s most advanced whole genome screening for embryos during IVF,” allows parents essentially to customize children, […]

  • Research and Commentary: Texas Bill Would Unleash Faster, Better Health Care Treatments

    Published June 3, 2025
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    Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would speed and improve health care treatments by easing preauthorization requirements for physicians and providers delivering certain health care services. Senate Bill 1380 would establish “that certain health care services, including emergency care, intervention-necessary care, outpatient mental health treatment, and preventive services, cannot require preauthorization from health maintenance […]

  • Research & Commentary: Heartland Policy Study Provides State-Level Blueprint for Curbing the Destructive Expansion of Industrial Solar Power

    Published June 3, 2025
    By Tim Benson
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    A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute details the major problems caused by the construction of industrial solar facilities and offers legislators solutions they should consider to prevent large scale solar development in their states.   In “How States Can Push Back Against the Destructive Expansion of Industrial Solar Power,” the authors relay how industrial […]

  • HHS to Require Placebo-Controlled Trials for New Vaccines

    Published June 3, 2025
    By Kevin Stone
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    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will enact a new policy requiring placebo-controlled trials for all new vaccines. The Washington Post reported on May 1 that HHS sent the outlet a statement that said, in part, “All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure—a radical departure […]

  • Hurricane 2025 Fact Sheet

    Published June 3, 2025
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    1. HURRICANES ARE NOT MORE FREQUENT There is no relationship between emissions or “global warming”, and frequency of hurricanes. 2. HURRICANES ARE NOT GETTING STRONGER There is no relationship between emissions or “global warming”, and hurricane strength. 3. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES IN HURRICANE-PRONE STATES ARE NOT UNDERSTAFFED Any staffing cuts or shortages in National […]

  • DOJ Pressures Medical Journals for Lack of Neutrality

    Published June 2, 2025
    By Bonner R. Cohen
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    The Justice Department has sent letters to leading medical journals, requesting information on how the publications chose and present their content. Although the letters do not constitute a formal DOJ investigation into the journals’ practices, their wording leaves little doubt the publications are under scrutiny in the latest escalation of the conflict between the Trump […]

  • FDA to Phase Out Synthetic Food Dyes

    Published May 27, 2025
    By Ashley Bateman
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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plan to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from food and drugs in the United States by the end of 2026. The agencies plan to create a national standard and timeline to transition from synthetic to natural alternatives. That […]

  • Hospitals Say No to Medicare Advantage

    Published May 27, 2025
    By Bonner R. Cohen
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    Hospitals and medical centers across the United States are increasingly opting out of Medicare Advantage (MA), a popular program that provides coverage to millions of older Americans. Providers are exiting MA so fast that Becker’s Hospital Review now continuously updates its growing list of cancellations. In 2025, Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White severed ties with […]

  • Medically Assisted Suicide Bills Are Sweeping the Nation

    Published May 23, 2025
    By AnneMarie Schieber
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    Forgoing the long, expensive, and unpredictable ballot proposal process, an increasing number of states are pushing legalized assisted suicide through their legislatures. The bills are having mixed success. Maryland defeated an eighth attempt to pass assisted suicide legislation when a bill failed to gain traction before the Maryland General Assembly ended its session for the […]

  • Innovators Call for More Access to Cutting-Edge Treatments

    Published May 22, 2025
    By Bonner R. Cohen
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    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should not overlook new applications of existing therapies and treatments to improve patients’ lives in pursuing the goal of making Americans healthier, a panel discussion hosted by The Heritage Foundation concluded. The panel focused on photobiomodulation (PBM) and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as two proven treatments that […]

  • Research & Commentary: New Heartland Scorecard Details Hidden Costs of ‘Renewable’ Energy Sources

    Published May 21, 2025
    By Tim Benson
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    A new Policy Brief from The Heartland Institute offers a comprehensive evaluation of seven primary electricity generation sources: biomass, coal, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and wind, and assesses each of them based on their affordability, reliability, and environmental impact.

  • Kennedy Orders Top-Down Review of Abortion Pill after Alarming Study

    Published May 21, 2025
    By Harry Painter
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    A new study has led to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to order a “complete review” of the abortion pill, mifepristone, amid queries from Congress. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MO) asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reinstate safety protocols for the drug in response to […]

  • Research & Commentary: New Report Details the Increasing Safety of the Country’s Pipeline Infrastructure

    Published May 20, 2025
    By Tim Benson
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    The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Liquids Energy Pipeline Association (LEPA) have released the latest of their annual reports on pipeline safety showing how liquids pipelines have become significantly safer over the last five years. The analysis, 2024 Pipeline Performance Report, details how total liquids pipeline safety incidents impacting people or the environment have dropped by 13 […]

  • How to Get $880 Billion in Savings from Medicaid Without Cutting Benefits – Commentary

    Published May 20, 2025
    By John C. Goodman
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    Because the payment rates are so low, many doctors refuse to see Medicaid patients. Among those who do, the Medicaid patient is the last they want to see. This is one reason why newly enrolled Medicaid patients increase their visits to the emergency room by 40 percent. Parkland Hospital in Dallas (the city’s safety-net hospital) […]

  • Research & Commentary: New Study Highlights Significant Impact of Shale Boom, Fracking Revolution in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Published May 19, 2025
    By Tim Benson
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    A study from researchers at Miami University in Ohio—recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Economics—provides new evidence that the hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) revolution over the last 18 years has had a significant impact on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The researchers found that between 2007 and […]

  • Medicaid Overhaul Falls Short, Jeopardizing Tax Cuts

    Published May 19, 2025
    By AnneMarie Schieber
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    Republican lawmakers are resisting efforts to overhaul Medicaid, a program that now insures one-in-five Americans and involves billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse. House Republicans dropped their “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” on May 12, a reconciliation bill that doesn’t require the Senate’s 60 vote threshold to pass. Instead of per-capita cuts or a […]

  • Trump EO to Bring U.S. Drug Prices in Line with Other Countries’

    Published May 17, 2025
    By Kevin Stone
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    President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) aimed at drastically reducing the cost of prescription drugs for Americans by tying their prices to those in other nations. A February 2024 Rand report found U.S. drug prices average 2.78 times higher than those in an index of 33 other nations. The disparity is even greater […]

  • Rep. Chip Roy: U.S. Health Care Is Worse Than Single-Payer – Interview

    Published May 15, 2025
    By AnneMarie Schieber
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    Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) released a 46-page report, “The Case for Healthcare Freedom,” earlier this year. The paper is a comprehensive review of the multiple challenges in health care today, which have driven up costs and reduced access to an unprecedented level. Roy discussed the report with Health Care News Managing Editor AnneMarie Schieber, explaining […]

  • Utah Enacts Nation’s First Statewide Ban on Water Fluoridation

    Published May 14, 2025
    By Kenneth Artz
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    Utah now prohibits state and local governments from adding fluoride to public water systems, becoming the first state in the nation to do so. Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 81 into law on March 27, and it went into effect on May 7. The legislation also bans political subdivisions from enacting or enforcing laws […]

  • Handout Helps Patients Determine Doctors’ Independence

    Published May 9, 2025
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    Patients often trust they are getting personalized advice from their health care providers, yet that is not always the case, a new consumer handout sheet warns. “Hospitals and health systems are quietly swallowing up private medical practices,” states a handout published on April 3 by the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). “Once independent physicians […]

  • Handout Helps Patients Determine Doctors’ Independence

    Published May 9, 2025
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    Patients often trust they are getting personalized advice from their health care providers, yet that is not always the case, a new consumer guidance sheet warns. “Hospitals and health systems are quietly swallowing up private medical practices,” states a handout published on April 3 by the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). “Once independent physicians […]

  • A Blueprint for State-Level Resistance to Industrial Solar

    Published May 6, 2025
    By Jack McPherrin, H. Sterling Burnett
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    Industrial solar imposes steep economic, environmental, and social costs that are often hidden or externalized, which far outweigh its supposed benefits. This Tip Sheet provides the solutions to those problems.

  • Trump’s Plan to Address Infertility Could Give Birth to New Problems – Commentary

    Published May 6, 2025
    By AnneMarie Schieber
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    Although President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” (IVF) is undoubtedly well-intentioned, it opens the door to numerous ethical and practical problems. Technological Fertility Fix Policymakers should note that IVF is not the only way to address declining fertility. The evident approach to solving a problem is to identify […]

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