The Heartland Institute

... Chicago, The Heartland Institute, 2009). Editor, Free To Choose Medicine, by Bart Madden (Chicago: The Heartland Institute, 2010). Editor, The Obamacare Disaster , by Peter Ferraro (Chicago: The Heartland Institute, 2010). Editor, Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform , by Herbert J. Walberg (Stanford... ...

... Static%20File/IHII_UseOfMed_report.pdf Free To Choose Medicine http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/FTCM%20Synopsis.pdf... ...

... streamline drugs to patients. It introduces “Free To Choose Medicine,” a Heartland Institute solution to federal drug regulation. Research & Commentary: Oklahoma Income Tax Elimination Budget & Tax Lawmakers in Oklahoma are saying tax reform involving the reduction of personal income tax rates will be one... ...

The biomedical industry spends over $50 billion per year on research and development and produces some 20 new drugs. One reason for this disappointing output is the byzantine U.S. clinical trial system that requires large numbers of patients. Half of all trials are delayed, 80 to 90% of them because of a shortage of trial ...

... Parents Skipping Vaccines Andrew Grove for Free to Choose Medicine Health Care Questions for the Next... SOURCE: USA Today ANDREW GROVE FOR FREE TO CHOOSE MEDICINE In Science , Andrew Grove, former CEO... of Intel, writes in support of Heartland’s Free to... ...

... Heartland aims to achieve with its Free to Choose Medicine project . When the FDA elevates increasingly time-consuming and demanding trials stacked upon trials without achieving any particularly safer drugs, it leaves thousands of Americans faced with a choice of procuring cutting-edge treatment overseas... ...

... Brian Williams to discuss Heartland's Free To Choose Medicine project.... ...

... This is why Heartland supports the Free to Choose Medicine project, which will allow for more... to bypass the old FDA model. Free to Choose Medicine would employ a dual track: on one track, a newly introduced drug goes through the lengthy clinical trials and testing necessary... ...

... believe that takes the form of Free to Choose Medicine . SOURCE: The American Spectator PROGRESSIVE SEE HEALTH EXCHANGES AS AN IDEOLOGICAL ISSUE It’s noteworthy that the political left increasingly sees the passage of health care exchanges as a key element of ensuring Obamacare remains law... ...

... Horace Cooper, head of Heartland s Free to Choose Medicine (FTCM) project, worked with Rep. David Rivera s office on drafting a FTCM bill and met regularly with allies. Outreach to Media We had 41 print, online, and broadcast media hits in April and May, reaching a known audience of 1.5 million. Senior... ...

... procedures. Washington ought to consider the “Free to Choose Medicine Initiative” popularized by the Heartland Institute... to achieve this. The principle feature of “Free to Choose Medicine” goes directly at the shopworn and... they could be made available. The “Free to... ...

... Climate Change (NIPCC) and our ongoing Free To Choose Medicine initiative and announcement of the new Medical Device Freedom initiative; descriptions of two new booklets polybagged with School Reform News : Ten Principles of Higher Education and Transformational Innovation in K-12 Education ; summaries of... ...

... Obamacare; participated in strategy meetings on Free To Choose Medicine; and launched an initiative on medical devices. InfoTech & Telecom InfoTech & Telecom News reports on network neutrality, the NBC-Universal/Comcast merger, rural wireless, distance learning, and broadband regulation. Heartland spokespersons... ...

... Horace Cooper, director of Heartland s Free To Choose Medicine project, titled How to Speed Up... committee chairman being the deciding vote. Free To Choose Medicine Horace Cooper, head of Heartland s Free To Choose Medicine (FTCM) initiative, participated... ...

... solution is the Heartland Institute s Free to Choose Medicine initiative. If combined with other market... out of the way. How does Free to Choose Medicine work? FTCM makes an end run... have access to promising new drugs. Free to Choose Medicine... ...

... the lines of Bart Madden s Free To Choose Medicine proposal if it is to have any longterm impact. SOURCE: Boston Globe HEALTH CARE NEWS: THE SIX TYPES OF OBAMACARE WAIVERS You ve doubtless heard that the number of waivers from aspects of Obamacare now numbers more than 700, and that 40 percent... ...

... in DC are enthusiastic about pursuing Free To Choose Medicine as part of a package of health care reforms. Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara was interviewed on talk radio in Arizona and Ohio, and Heartland spokespersons were published in newspapers reaching 1.7 million readers. Seven interviews were... ...

In November 2010, voters around the United States demanded change in Washington. For the third time in as many election cycles, Americans kicked out people in power and replaced them with new, often untested elected leaders. Two months later, in January 2011, many men and women came to Washington having campaigned on promises ...

... research, certificate of need, and more. Free To Choose Medicine Initiative Last year The Heartland Institute published Free To Choose Medicine: How Faster Access to New Drugs... Bart Madden Bart Madden, author of Free To Choose Medicine , is the guest... ...

... Climate Change (NIPCC) and our ongoing Free To Choose Medicine initiative; summaries of our publications, public relations, and government relations work on budget and tax policy, environment, health care, information technology and telecommunications, school reform, lawsuit abuse, and finance, insurance... ...