(1) Conscience Denial: The Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 15 finalized its mandate that all health insurance plans include coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization procedures, and contraceptives. The mandate allows no exception for church-affiliated schools, hospitals and charities whose religious principles conflict with the mandate. To date, 42 lawsuits representing more than 110 plaintiffs have been filed challenging this restriction on religious liberty as a violation of First Amendment.
As busy as regulators were in 2012, don't look for them to rest next year. Already in the pipeline are dozens of new rules covering health care, finance, global warming and more. It is anybody's guess who will win next year's prize. The only safe bet is that consumers will lose.
Diane Katz is research fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation, where James Gattuso is senior research fellow in regulatory policy.
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I see the Heritage Foundation is wasting no time putting fear in the hearts of Americans with their hyperbolic descriptions of recent changes in regulation. But if this is the best they can come up with then we have it pretty soft here in the US.
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No, MM, we don't wonder. We know.
It started Reagan and continued through Bush, Bush, and their GOP cohorts.
Let's see. Unfunded wars. Unfunded Medicare Part D. Tax cuts for the wealthy. Subsidies for oil companies More..
procuradorfiscal said, "It's not the Heritage Foundation we fear -- it's the Obama regime and its clearly evident, well-documented agenda to convert America into a bankrupt, eurosocialist, nanny state, that identifies the successful More..