Road to Nowhere
What to know: The U.S. Senate has advanced President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package—though it has little to do with infrastructure like roads and bridges.
The TPPF take: This big-spending bill should be rejected outright.
“President Biden and Congressional Democrats have proposed roughly $6 trillion in new spending over a decade of hard-earned taxpayer dollars,” says TPPF’s Vance Ginn. “To put it bluntly, this reckless spending will destroy America’s fiscal and economic institutions by pushing us toward insolvency, dependency, and insanity.”
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Bad Medicine
What to know: Too many hospitals—including facilities in Texas—are still failing to comply with hospital price transparency rules.
The TPPF take: Only 5.6% of hospitals across the country are in compliance with the federal government’s price transparency rule
“The idea of price transparency is that the consumer should be able to shop for the best price of hospital care, similar to the way we all shop for clothes, cars, etc.,” says TPPF’s Virginia Sanders. “Price transparency will lead to better-informed consumers and patients, and eventually, higher-price facilities will start to lower their prices to become more competitive.”
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Subsidized Scolds
What to know: Democrats have proposed a Civilian Climate Corps, which would employ young people to tell us how to live our lives.
The TPPF take: No thanks.
“Although sensationalized reports about global warming usually present a stark future — ‘12 years left to live!’ — and scary images of burning forests, these attention-grabbing headlines aren’t based on sound science,” says TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua. “Former Obama energy official Steven Koonin describes the media and activist groups’ understanding of climate as ‘drifting so far out of touch with the actual science as to be absurdly, demonstrably false.’”
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