The Heartland Institute

This Obamacare thing is not going as well as some had hoped. Democratic senators, at a caucus meeting with White House officials, expressed concerns on Thursday about how the Obama administration was carrying out the health care law they adopted three years ago. Democrats in both houses of Congress said some members of ...

Yesterday, at the Republican National Convention, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice gave a superb speech covering many important issues. One issue she touched on that regrettably hasn’t been talked about enough this campaign season is education reform. For the United States to have sustained economic prosperity ...

One of the aspects of Obamacare the administration has seen fit to highlight repeatedly is the so-called “slacker mandate,” which allows individuals up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans. Analysis by the Commonwealth Fund has found the mandate to be particularly popular , with millions of young adults ...

President Obama’s health care law could soon be struck down by the Supreme Court, or voters could finish the job in November. In considering what comes next, Medicaid reform is at the top of the list. Medicaid is the worst health care program in the country—a dismal program that finances care for low-income Americans but ...

The policy centerpiece of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget proposal this year is his Medicare reform. While Ryan’s approach builds on prior efforts, it differs in important ways from his prior legislative solutions, including last year’s Path to Prosperity. Ryan’s modified approach is essentially the same as one ...

As states begin to estimate the price of implementing President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), one costly component of the law has yet to receive much-needed attention: accountable care organizations (ACOs). According to Obamacare proponents, ACOs will be federally financed organizations for Medicare ...

Some critics claim these clinics sacrifice quality for expediency, and collectively pose a threat to high standards of care offered in a traditional doctor’s office setting. However, this Research & Commentary package demonstrates: Retail health clinics actually help doctors’ offices by decreasing the burden associated with treatment ...

Affordable, convenient health care has become more available to average Americans as a result of the proliferation of so-called "retail clinics." A resurgence of the failed effort to establish "store-front clinics" in the 1980s, retail clinics are growing in number across the nation. These clinics, which offer basic acute care ...