Insurance
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GovernmentHealth Care
Government Is Awful at Insurance – and Certainly Shouldn’t Be Rewriting Policies
by Seton Motley May 30, 2020You don’t want government anywhere near any insurance policies you purchase.
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In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address.
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This month Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released her long-awaited health care plan. Like most proposals from Harris, who is running for president, her plan to address America’s health care woes is full of hyperbole and void of detail.
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According to a new analysis released last month, Americans spent $3.65 trillion dollars on health care in 2018 – more than the entire gross domestic product of Canada.
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Health Care
Dangers Lurk Behind Government’s Electronic Health Record Requirement
by Nancy Thorner November 15, 2018Twila Brase, RN, PHN, president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), was featured at Heartland Institute November 7th.
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At the end of June, a U.S. District Court judge blocked Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients. According to the ruling, Bevin’s reforms would have undermined Medicaid’s mission to help low-income Americans access medical care.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsGovernmentRegulationScienceTaxes
Insuring Disaster
by Daniel Sutter June 28, 2018Subsidizing building in risky areas is poor policy, but I think that transparency makes direct subsidies a better option.
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FeaturedGovernmentHealth CarePoliticsRegulation
The Fight Over Obamacare Moves to the States
by Sarah Lee June 25, 2018Since Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare when they had the chance in 2017, many have, rather wisely, decided to shift the battleground to the states.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEducationEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CareLegal AffairsLibertyPodcastUncategorized
In The Tank (ep137) – Child Safety Accounts, Terrible Earth Day Predictions, and Policy Updates
by Donald Kendal April 27, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #137 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and more.
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Health Care
Bad Medicine: How Politicians Jack Up Medicaid and Medicare Prices
by Devon Herrick March 12, 2018The other day a reporter asked me to explain why the government cannot negotiate the price of Medicare drugs lower than private drug plans run by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
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Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Is a Prescription for Disaster in Maine
by Jesse Hathaway October 23, 2017In November, Maine residents will be confronted with a ballot question asking them to expand MaineCare.
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Houston / Harris County has two enormous “dry reservoirs,” along with several hundred (regular) reservoirs, bayous, stream beds and other infrastructure designed to collect the water of torrential rainfalls to prevent flooding.
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Health CarePodcast
Heartland on the Radio: Peter Ferrara on How to Save Americans from the Obamacare Death Spiral
by Andy Singer July 12, 2017Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute discusses options for replacing Obamacare.