The Heartland Institute

The Obama administration maintains that pushing hospitals and physicians to adopt electronic medical records will improve efficiency, increase patient safety, and reduce health care costs. But as more providers transition to EMRs, there has been an unexpected consequence: Billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private ...

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 ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the PROTECT-IP/Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA/SOPA) bill currently gaining momentum in Congress will cost taxpayers $47 million a year. In this video above from Fight for the Future, other major drawbacks beyond costs of PIPA/SOPA are enumerated, including empowering government and corporations ...

The 25-five-year-old federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) doesn’t protect individuals’ data stored remotely in the Internet “cloud” (such as gmail, mobileme, and skydrive). This allows government agencies to perform warrantless searches on any data stored there for more than 180 days. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has ...

In the wake of the 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to impose network neutrality regulations on the Internet this past December, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives may change the terms of the debate significantly. Members of the incoming congressional leadership expressed displeasure with ...

The usual suspects on the left — notably Free Press — is going nuts over reports that Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski appears to be backing off his plans to impose strict net neutrality rules via a simple majority vote of his agency. Via The Washington Post : The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission ...

A U.S. Department of Education analysis of 51 “rigorous” online learning studies concludes that, on average, students learning online perform better academically than students receiving exclusively face-to-face instruction. Students engaging in blended learning, where they receive some instruction online and some face-to-face, did even ...