Sean Parnell in the New York Times
You'll have to scroll to the bottom but Heartland VP, Sean Parnell, made the New York Times this weekend.
July 31, 2006
April 24, 2006
Are we journalists? does it matter? EFF broken clock?
Apple, the company that teeters between radical innovation and insular reactionary business models has moved the debate over leaks to the private sphere.
An appeal of an order providing Apple with subpoena's over an e-mail provider was heard last Thursday. The anti-intellectual property Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is busy making bloggers into journalists to extend the imaginary journalists' shield - proposed by EFF to work like the shields on the starship Enterprise but having more in common with the cone of silence from Mel Brook's classic sitcom Get Smart.
Given the general state of journalism, I'd just as soon not be included. But a more interesting question is whether the EFF is, as they claim, defending freedom in the digital world, or defending cyber theft.
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February 28, 2006
Bast in the Sun-Times
Heartland President, Joe Bast, was featured on the editorial page of the Sun-Times this morning:
Democrat critics point to a section of the Medicare Modernization Act (1860D-11(i)) that reads, ''the Secretary may not interfere with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and PDP [prescription drug plan] sponsors.'' This, they say, is evidence the bill was written to protect drug companies instead of consumers.Is it? The text immediately preceding the words quoted above reads: ''In order to promote competition under this part and in carrying out this part. . . .'' The provision, in other words, is intended to protect competition from government interference.
The bill relies on private drug benefit management firms to negotiate steeper price discounts than the government could if it negotiated directly with drug companies. When asked if the cost of the program would be less if direct negotiation were allowed, the Congressional Budget Office in a Jan. 23, 2004, letter to Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said the effect on federal spending would be ''negligible.''
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February 17, 2006
Media Mentions: Chi-Fi Town
Steven Titch, Heartland's telecom expert, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune this morning.
February 15, 2006
Media Mention: Cox in Ventura County Star
The Ventura County Star is running an op-ed by Heartland Senior Fellow and blog contributor, Wendell Cox, discussing urban sprawl and mass transit.
January 20, 2006
Media Spotlight: Eat Paint, Get Rich
The Heartland Institute made a bang yesterday with an op-ed in the Wall-Street Journal by Maureen Martin. It's posted online here.
January 10, 2006
Media Mention : Government Executive Magazine
One of Heartland's Senior Fellows was recently mentioned in Government Executive on the challenges "pay-for-performance" poses to good medical practice:
Dr. Richard O. Dolinar, a clinical endocrinologist in Phoenix, will not be among the volunteers. Pay for performance would have serious consequences for doctors and patients, he says. As a senior fellow for health care policy at the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank, Dolinar is no fan of Medicare's current system, which he says is based on price controls and central planning. But he's worried that pay for performance would result in doctors playing hot potato with particularly risky patients. A case "that's going to wreck my statistic - I'm going to ship this patient downstream," is how Dolinar predicts doctors would react. In fact, a study published in the July 25, 1996, New England Journal of Medicine found a majority of Pennsylvania cardiologists who were graded annually in a public report card became less willing to operate on severely ill patients.