Healthcare

March 10, 2021

Nun: Abortion-funding stimulus is ‘the faithful answer’ to COVID-19

The Senate passed the “American Rescue Plan” on Saturday without the Hyde Amendment, a legislative rider that protects taxpayers from having to fund abortion-on-demand. However, a prominent Roman Catholic nun has celebrated the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, calling on “every single member of Congress” to vote for it and saying the abortion-funding measure makes strides toward “ending child poverty.” Continue Reading...

February 26, 2021

NHS staff told ‘do not resuscitate’ COVID-19 patients with learning disabilities

After a year-long legal battle, a British hospital apologized for placing 51-year-old Andrew Waters under a “Do Not Resuscitate” order without his family’s consent during his 2011 hospital stay, because he suffered from Down syndrome and “learning difficulties.” Continue Reading...

December 05, 2020

Moderna’s market-oriented COVID-19 vaccine miracle

When the world faced a incurable pandemic, Big Pharma delivered. Moderna has joined Pfizer in successfully creating a COVID-19 vaccine with breathtaking speed, only to encounter the glacial pace of the government’s “expedited” approval process. Continue Reading...

November 23, 2020

Pandemic or not, America has the best healthcare in the world

When President Donald Trump fell ill with COVID-19, there was absolutely no contemplation of moving America’s head of state to another country to receive healthcare services. This might be surprising, considering the oft-quoted World Health Organization ranking of our healthcare system at 37th globally. Continue Reading...

August 28, 2020

Donald Trump’s bad prescription for drug prices

The final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention included powerful lines promoting the Trump administration’s drug price policies. President Donald Trump claimed that his recent executive orders on drug prices “will massively lower the cost of your prescription drugs.” Continue Reading...

August 28, 2020

C.S. Lewis and Nicolás Maduro on Venezuela’s plunging birthrate

The birth of a child is life’s greatest joy – unless a dictator is asking you to have children to increase his personal power base, and he has destroyed the economy so badly that you can’t feed yourself. Continue Reading...

July 10, 2020

Little Sisters, big victories

Religious liberty won two significant victories at the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8. Justices ruled in two separate, 7-2 decisions that the federal government may not interfere in religious institutions’ hiring and firing of ministers, and that the government has the right to grant the Little Sisters of the Poor a religious exemption from a federal Obamacare mandate requiring employers to furnish female employees with no-cost birth control, sterilization, and potentially abortifacient drugs. Continue Reading...

April 24, 2020

A free-market agenda for rebuilding from the coronavirus

On June 18, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill steeled his people for the Battle of Britain with a stirring speech in the House of Commons that concluded: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Continue Reading...

March 31, 2020

This machine could replace 8 million masks. The FDA slowed it down.

The United States is a land of plenty, but federal officials say it does not have all the medical equipment it needs to fight the coronavirus. With the government estimating the U.S. Continue Reading...

March 30, 2020

How freer markets can help during the coronavirus crisis with Rev. Robert Sirico

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Rev. Robert Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, shares thoughts on how reducing regulatory and tax burdens can help our struggling economy as we fight the virus. Continue Reading...

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