Ohio Senate Overrides DeWine Veto of Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

• The Ohio Senate voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, which will protect minors from experimental transgender treatments euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” and safeguard fairness in women’s sports.
• HB 68, the Enact Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, will bar physicians from performing gender-reassignment surgery on a minor and from prescribing cross-sex hormones or drugs to block puberty for the purpose of gender transition.
• It also will enable students to sue if they are deprived of a fair playing field in sports due to gender activism and protect parents’ rights to raise their children according to their biological sex.
• HB 68 reflects the values of a bipartisan majority of Americans who know that biological males do not belong in girls’ sports—and that dangerous cross-sex hormones and experimental surgeries have no business being administered to children.

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Central Planning on Drugs: Why Biden’s Medicare Price Fixing Will Hurt Seniors

• This year, under the terms of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin “negotiations” with drug manufacturers to set the price for select drugs to be provided within the Medicare program. 
• These new changes could create serious obstacles for seniors attempting to access future life-saving medications. 
• The law sets in motion economic dynamics that will discourage investment in breakthrough medications. 
• This price setting process is not subject to judicial review and any pharmaceutical research and development company that does not accept the Medicare bureaucracy’s administrative price is subject to a particularly harsh punitive tax. 
• To put it simply: This is coercion, not negotiation. 
• With these price fixing programs in place, drug research and development companies will simply make up for the lost Medicare revenue through price increases. 
• Government price controls always reduce the availability of goods and services in the controlled sector of the economy. That means shortages are on the way. 
• We shouldn’t be surprised. Washington’s “progressive” central planners have been old-fashioned and out-of-date for decades. 

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America’s Public Education System Is Failing Our Children

• Parents should have access to a robust education system that meets their child’s unique learning needs.
• America's public education system is failing our children. Rather than be stuck, parents deserve education options that best meet their children's educational needs and align with their values. 
• Education choice is winning in 2023 because parents are tired of failing public schools that prioritize a radical curriculum over the basics such as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
• Eleven states embraced K-12 education saving accounts for families, empowering families to decide what learning options best fit their families and offering them the greatest flexibility in choosing learning options for their kids.
• Whether private schools, charter schools, homeschooling, or education savings accounts, states should maximize parental options so families can choose the learning environment that best aligns with their values.

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