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Research & Commentary: Report Shows Oil & Gas Industries’ Emissions Continue to Fall as Production Increases
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The recently released annual report from The Environmental Partnership (TEP), a voluntary collective of oil and gas companies “committed to continuously improving the industry’s environmental performance,” details the serious progress the industry has made in emissions reductions, especially in reducing flare intensity. TEP describes its mission as “to continuously improve the industry’s environmental performance by […] -
Research & Commentary: Despite Naysayers’ Warnings, Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program Was Under Budget for 2024
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Arizona Department of Education (ADOE) has released data showing state education funding has come in under budget, which should dispel claims that the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program, a universal education savings account program open to all Arizona children, would blow open the state’s education spending. According to ADOE, Basic State Aid payments […] -
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Biden’s Nursing Home Staffing Mandate Hit with Lawsuit
Publication -A Biden administration rule setting minimum staffing levels at nursing homes has been hit with a lawsuit. Biden’s regulation could require 80 percent of the 15,000 nursing homes certified for Medicare and Medicaid long-term care in the United States to hire more workers. The industry is fighting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services […] -
Research & Commentary: New Report Details Environmental and Human Rights Problems of ‘Green’ Energy and Electric Vehicles
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report from the American Consumer Institute (ACI) details, for all their touting as “green” sources of energy, wind and solar powered electricity generation is much more environmentally harmful than most people realize. The report, Clearing the Air: Honest Truths about Clean Energy, details the environmental hazards during the production processes of these green […] -
The 2024 American Health Care Plan: State Solutions
Publication -Policy Studies -In this paper, The Heartland Institute outlines reforms from which all states could benefit, several of which some states have already begun to implement. -
Research & Commentary: New Survey Shows Education Choice Still Incredibly Popular, But Parent Awareness of Available Programs Is Lacking
Publication -Research and Commentaries -EdChoice recently released the results of their 12th annual Schooling in America survey, a “nationally representative survey of the general public and parents of school-age children [which] offers an in-depth look at the opinions and trends shaping K–12 education in America.” The survey, in partnership with Braun Research, was fielded across April 2024 and “obtained […] -
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Optometrists Go After Online Vision Tests
Publication -Online eye examinations are currently allowed in 37 states, but some of those states are moving toward limiting or banning them under pressure from optometric associations. For instance, under heavy pressure from the Kentucky Optometric Association (KOA), the state attorney general (AG) alleged that online, eyeglass retailer Warby Parker violated the state’s KOA-backed Consumer Protection […] -
Utah Republican Leadership Pushes Climate Alarmism
Publication -Many of Utah’s leading Republican politicians have defied conservative voters and bought into Al Gore’s and the Biden-Harris administration’s climate alarmism. In doing so, they have promoted policies that will increase Utah energy prices while limiting consumers’ energy choices. The state of Utah is experiencing no net harm from purported human-caused climate change. Despite this […] -
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Texas Squares Off with CMS over Medicaid Funding
Publication -Texas and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are locking horns over what Lone Star State officials say is CMS’s double standard when it comes to states that have not participated in Medicaid expansion. Along with Florida and Missouri, Texas was targeted by CMS last year for audits and other enforcement actions as […] -
Expanding School Choice Benefits All Students
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Over the past decade and particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of American families have become dissatisfied with government-run public schools and desire robust school choice options. During the pandemic, most public schools, at the behest of teacher unions, decided to close their doors for in-person learning. Meanwhile, private and parochial schools generally […] -
Election-Related Deepfakes: Understanding the Threat and Exploring Potential Solutions
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Election-related deepfakes involving audio, photo, and video manipulations have become a significant concern in the digital age. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI) to create convincing but false representations of individuals, making them appear to say or do things they never said or did. These manipulations pose significant threats to the integrity of public debate and […] -
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The Latest Surprise Charge on Medical Bills—Facility Fees – Commentary
Publication -“Surprise, surprise, surprise!”—as Gomer Pyle was fond of saying. There’s yet another surprise medical bill scam that most patients probably do not know about. It is hospital-affiliated urgent care centers that are billed as hospital outpatient departments. I often tell the story of the time my wife almost got a CT scan at a hospital […] -
Research & Commentary: New Report Sheds Light on Climate Activist Group’s Shady Influencing of American Court System Against Energy Providers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The American Energy Institute (AEI) has released a new report detailing how the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) at the Environmental Law Institute is “influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote questionable climate science.” The Climate Judiciary Project’s stated goal is to “provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science […] -
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FDA Hid COVID Shot Side Effects—Congressional Report
Publication -A congressional investigation has found evidence the Biden administration pressured drug regulators to cut corners in authorizing COVID-19 shots and boosters. An interim staff report by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust concluded the Biden administration “pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to go beyond its […] -
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How to Spend Billions of Dollars and Get Nothing in Return – Interview
Publication -Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis (Updated Second Edition), by John C. Goodman, Independent Institute, 392 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-59-813395-0, $28.95, amazon.com (Hardcover) John C. Goodman, co-publisher of Health Care News, known as the “father of health savings accounts,” is releasing a second edition of his 2012 groundbreaking book, Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis. […] -
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Georgia Medicaid Work Program Stays Afloat, One Year Out
Publication -Georgia is the only state that requires some able-bodied adults to work to qualify for Medicaid, in a program that has reached its one-year anniversary, despite the opposition of the Biden administration. Under the Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved waivers allowing states to condition Medicaid benefits for nondisabled adults […] -
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Fixing Social Problems to Improve Health a Waste of Time, Money—Study
Publication -Research supporting the Biden administration’s favored “social determinants of health” theory of “health equity” is flimsy, according to a study from the Manhattan Institute. The doctrine is being pushed through Medicaid. In February, Vox reported that six states will be part of a pilot program providing six months of rental assistance to Medicaid enrollees. On […] -
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Family Estrangement Therapy Is a New Treatment Trend
Publication -A mental health crisis in adolescents and young adults that has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to estrangement from family members on the recommendation of licensed mental health professionals. Online therapists, in particular, are encouraging this social response to mental distress. The New York Times profiled a college student who disengaged from her parents […] -
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Project 2025 Faces Backlash
Publication -The national Democratic Party and the media have focused their attention on a conservative plan for America’s future developed by the Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 is a program focused on policy recommendations, and recruitment and training of personnel, for a potential Republican presidential administration. The project includes a policy document, Mandate for Leadership, which the […] -
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Appeals Court Rules Physicians Can Assert Their First Amendment Rights
Publication -A federal appeals court ruled physicians have standing to sue specialty boards that threaten their constitutionally protected speech, in one of several cases alleging censorship. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded to a district court a lawsuit by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) that alleges federal agencies and […] -
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Biden, Trump Agree on Alternative to Employer Health Plans
Publication -President Joe Biden announced his decision to withdraw from consideration as a candidate for president, voicing his support for Vice President Kamala Harris to be nominated by the Democratic Party instead. As Biden’s time as president winds down, distinctions are drawn between the policies his administration enacted and those implemented during the term of his […] -
Research & Commentary: Newly Updated Report Collects the Overwhelming Empirical Evidence of the Benefits of Education Choice Programs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -EdChoice, one of the national leaders in education choice advocacy and research, has released a new, updated “in-depth review of the available research on private school choice programs in America.” The 123s of School Choice, originally published in 2019 and updated this June, gathers information from 188 empirical studies on choice programs—vouchers, education savings accounts (ESAs), tax-credit […] -
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Presidential Election Seen as Referendum on Health Care
Publication -A new analysis predicts health care could be a campaign weapon for Democrats in a tight presidential race, with the media already stressing stark differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the issue. The two have already sparred over health insurance. Trump said Harris wants to outlaw private health insurance, and Harris responded by […] -
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Michael Bloomberg Gives $1 Billion for Free Medical School
Publication -Michael Bloomberg’s $1 billion donation to Johns Hopkins University in July will make tuition free for most medical students, covering the full cost of attendance, including tuition and living expenses, such as rent, according to a report from the university. Presumably, Bloomberg wants to alleviate the doctor shortage in the United States by lowering or […]