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Heartland Daily Podcast: Michael Ramlet on Obamacare Polling
Micharl Ramlet joined Heartland Research Fellow, Ben Domenech to talk about recent polling on Obamacare.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Micharl Ramlet joined Heartland Research Fellow, Ben Domenech to talk about recent polling on Obamacare.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
It may not be that surprising that during the current progressive administration the opposition has been dismissed as “racists” and “tea baggers…” Bottom line — no matter how big a tantrum the progressives throw, no matter how many names they call their opponents, no matter how badly they distort the facts, the probability of very many young healthy people signing up for coverage in California or anywhere else is extremely low.
Education · Environment/Energy · Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast was a guest on the new Milt Rosenberg Show for an in-depth discussion on the challenges of running a think tank today compared to 20 years ago. Joe and Milt[...]
Economics · Featured · Politics
If we could revive that same 3.3% real annual growth for 20 years, our total GDP, or economic production, would double in that time.
It is cruelly ironic, but the massive law that was enacted to solve the problem of the uninsured in America is more likely to worsen it. This would be true[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as[...]
The last check and balance on President Obama is the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. He has made clear that he intends to remove that check on his[...]
Economics · Education · Health Care · Regulation · Taxes
The Atlantic published an article earlier this month comparing U.S.’s moribund healthcare system to its education system, providing several facts that would probably surprise the average American. “In education, just[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Health Care · Politics · Taxes
As the gradual implementation of Obamacare continues and debate over the intelligence of socialized medicine mounts, the budgetary malaise of the current Medicaid system should be a red flag to[...]
Heartland’s Kendall Antikeier mentioned our efforts to bring the public’s attention to the Centers for Disease Control’s seeming reluctance to recommend — after the FDA has done so — a[...]
Upon first knowledge that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was debating whether to recommend an infant meningitis vaccine due to “cost-effectiveness,” The Heartland Institute has been actively following the[...]
As the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) debates whether to recommend the FDA-approved infant meningitis vaccine, Canada is enduring a similar struggle. Cost-effective analysis by government bureaucrats is keeping[...]
Today the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on health held four panels on the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius acted as an ally[...]
A media outlet that traditionally generates left leaning commentary instead of unbiased news content, NPR’s report supporting the newly created Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is not surprising. IPAB,[...]
