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A September 6, 2014 headline in Great Britain’s Daily Mail announced, “Now NHS lets you jump the queue for routine surgery... if you'll pay What is happening in Great Britain’s vaunted in NHS (National Health Service) is of vital interest to Americans. Dr. Donald Berwick, one of the prime designers of the Affordable Care Act, proudly said in 2010 that the NHS was his model for our ACA. By seeing where the NHS is today, we can foresee where U.S. healthcare is headed tomorrow. To reduce the escalating costs of their healthcare system, the NHS has been rationing care, either...

CaesarRodney.org Newark Housing Authority withdraws gun banNewark Housing Authority residents will now be allowed to possess firearms in their homes, as long as they comply with applicable state and federal law. By Lee Williams A residents’ handbook containing rules and regulations for everyone living in property operated by the Newark Housing Authority was “misleading,” according to Rob Detwiler, who chairs the authority’s Board of Commissioners. A section in the handbook requiring that tenants must “not possess explosives, firearms or flammable material on NHA’s property,” will be removed, Detwiler told the Caesar Rodney Institute Wednesday morning. Detwiler, who is nearing the...

Land grabbers in Congress, led by Rep. Joel Hefley (R-CO), want to pass federal legislation (H.R. 1427) to create a National Heritage Areas program. Property rights advocates must be on the alert and prepared to fight to ensure that such a program never comes into existence. National Heritage Areas present many dangers to traditional property rights and local zoning. Here are a few of the more serious implications and problems associated with an NHA program: * National Heritage Areas are de facto federal zoning. Despite proponents' claims to the contrary, as federal dollars flow from Washington to individual NHAs, inevitably,...