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The "Public Option": The Left's Trojan Horse for Government-Run Healthcare <[link removed]> – If a government-run
plan were to crowd out private coverage in the individual market, what would it do to the large- and small-group markets? If the public option’s scope of rigged “competition” were extended to those markets, and enrollees were offered ample taxpayer subsidies, employers might respond by dropping workers’ coverage altogether. The
Left routinely sells its federal health policy with warm and fuzzy generalities: “Free care for all” or “Health care that’s always there.” But it’s a policy’s details, not its slogans, that determine its outcomes. In the case of the public option proposals, their details are designed to rig the markets, crowd out
private health plans, reduce choice and competition, and encourage businesses to dump their workers out of employer sponsored coverage. Heritage expert: Bob Moffit <[link removed]>
To Counter Learning Loss, We Need to Empower Students, Not Systems <[link removed]> – Robust education marketplaces are associated with improving student outcomes, and elected leaders are
making progress. Legislators have signed nine out of 49 student-centered proposals introduced by 33 states into law. At the very least, school districts should allow school principals to make spending decisions that tailor resources to the children most affected by pandemic-induced learning loss. School district leaders
finalizing their American Rescue Plan spending plans should enable parents and educational staff to collaborate together and help get America’s children—our future—back on track. Heritage expert: Jude Schwalbach <[link removed]>
China’s Grand Theft <[link removed]> – Communist China has acknowledged that it must make large leaps in cutting-edge technologies to surpass America and that it cannot accomplish this with its own state-directed economy. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told a Communist Party meeting, “Our capacity for innovation is not strong, and our weakness in terms of core technologies for key fields remains a salient problem.” For China, the solution is simple: intellectual theft on a scale never seen before in modern history. As U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Demers put it, “China wants the fruits of America’s brain power to harvest the seeds of its planned economic dominance.” China’s thieves are everywhere. One of its intelligence officers posed as a headhunter on a social media platform and offered an American scientist a large sum for “consulting” services. The American realized that the “consulting” was related to sensitive information he had as a military intelligence specialist. He reported the suspicious contact to the FBI. Heritage expert: Lee Edwards <[link removed]>
Philadelphia Isn’t Los Angeles: Putting a Rogue Prosecutor’s Primary Win Into Context <[link removed]> – Rising crimes rates have caused a backlash against
the “defund the police” movement, even in the most liberal of cities. That was inevitable because residents of cities, regardless of their politics, skin color, or the like, abhor violence and want to be free from it. And they believe in law and order. So Larry Krasner’s victory means that more minority and other underserved citizens will suffer the inevitable results of his rogue, radical policies. The rogue prosecutor movement owns rising crime rates, and may be wallowing in a false sense of optimism because of
Krasner’s win in the primary. Time will tell if it portends future victories for rogue candidates. Count us as skeptical, since the country is waking up to the ugly reality of the rogue prosecutor movement. Heritage expert: Zack Smith <[link removed]>
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