ObamaCare + Illegal Immigration + California = Insanity
I’m not really sure where to start with this, so let’s just start with the basics. From the San Jose Mercury News: A first-in-the-nation bill aimed at expanding health care for illegal immigrants sailed through the Senate on Tuesday even as some lawmakers acknowledged that thousands of legal residents are ...
Justin Danhof Criticizes Apple CEO Tim Cook on Fox Business Network
On yesterday’s episode of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast,” Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research criticized Tim Cook’s handling of Apple. Danhof, the Director of the Center’s Free Enterprise Project, was especially critical of Cook’s diversion of resources away from core business to products that ...
Horace Cooper Discusses the Bill Cosby Rape Allegations with Dr. Drew
Did U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno have the right to release sealed documents regarding past allegations about Bill Cosby? Is a suspect’s right to privacy dependent upon how many accusers he has, or upon how famous he is? On last night’s episode of HLN’s “Dr. Drew” show, Horace Cooper ...
Medicare Pits Doctors against Patients
A quick note: Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my book, Medicare’s Victims, at the Heritage Foundation at Noon. Details here. Today the Washington Examiner has run my article, “Medicare’s midlife crisis: Catastrophic finances pit doctors against patients.” In it I examine Medicare’s financial difficulties and how that leads to government interfering ...
As Medicare Turns 50 on July 30, New Book Exposes Medicare’s Problems and its Victims
"Medicare's Victims: How the U.S. Government's Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians" Tells Tales of Harm to Patients, Struggles by Doctors Explains Why "Medicare-for-All," as Proposed by Some Politicians, Won't Work Washington, D.C. - "As Medicare nears its 50th anniversary, there will no doubt be much celebrating ...
Dissecting Medicare
Thanks to PJTV, which has aired the first television interview about my new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. It’s part of a series called “Keeping Your Gold In Your Golden Years.” The host, John Phillips, and I discussed issues ...
Think Progress Discovers Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Other Lite Fare
1. From Think Progress: “Serena Williams Beat Maria Sharapova For The 17th Straight Time. But Serena Still Makes Less Money.” This is one of those great stories where the laughter starts with the headline. While Williams has dominated Sharapova in recent years, “it is Sharapova, not Williams, who makes the most ...
Pointing Out Harm Reduction Gains
Tobacco harm reduction is one of the most important issues to the Risk Analysis Division. We believe that proper (limited) regulation of reduced risk products such as e-cigarettes and snus, a type of smokeless tobacco, can save more lives than any new tax, warning label, or ineffective “public service” campaign. I ...
Does Medicare Impoverish Those With Disabilities?
In my new book, Medicare Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, I examine how the disabled fare with Medicare’s cost sharing. One disabled woman that I interviewed for the book was Francine English, who is now, sadly, deceased. For her, the problem ...
The Law Should Not Treat Bill Cosby Differently Because He Gave a Speech
Members of Black Leadership Group Say U.S. District Court Judge Was Wrong to Release Transcript of Deposition in a Cosby Civil Case Explicitly Because Cosby Gave a 2005 Speech Telling Young Black Parents to do a Better Job Raising Their Children Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black ...
Government Interferes with the Religious Liberty of Christian Colleges
After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, many Christians expressed concern that the decision might result in government interference with the religious liberty of Christian institutions. As it turns out, federal ObamaCare mandates are doing that already. My alma mater, Wheaton College, just lost a court challenge related ...
Medicare Helps the Disabled–Or Not
As noted in an earlier blog post, the leftist Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.” The first report released under this series is entitled, “Medicare: 50 Years of Ensuring Coverage and Care.” The Executive Summary of the report claims, “there ...
Medicare’s Victims: Order Your Copy!
Finally! Today is the official release of my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians! It is available at Amazon.com, both paperback ($14.99) and Kindle ($6.99). For those of you who have an eReader other than Kindle (i.e., it uses an ...
Medicare and the Gila Monster Threat!
Apparently, the deadline to test the new ICD-10 system with Medicare has just passed. If you’re wondering what “ICD-10” is, don’t worry …actually you should worry, for reasons I’ll explain in a bit. Anyway, ICD stands for International Classification of Disease. It is a system of diagnostic codes that physicians use ...
Paid Parental Leave Shouldn’t Be Mandatory
Should paid parental leave be mandatory in the United States? Horace Cooper with the National Center for Public Policy Research and Elizabeth Peters with the Urban Institute discussed this issue on Al Jazeera America’s “Inside Story with Ray Suarez” on June 30, 2015. “I’ve got no problem if an employer ...
Donald Trump, the Clintons and Marijuana
How are Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton and marijuana linked to each other? They were all topics of discussion June 28 on WHUT’s “New View with Ed Gordon,” and topics covered with zeal by our own adjunct fellow Horace Cooper. Recent remarks by Donald Trump during his announcement of ...
Medicare’s Innovation Center Will Be Captured by Big Medical Providers
The Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.” Yesterday the Fund released a paper under this series entitled “Medicare Payment Reform: Aligning Incentives for Better Care.” In it, the authors note that ObamaCare “has created the Center for Medicare and ...
New Book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians,” To Be Released
Tells Intimate Stories of People Who Suffer Because of Medicare's Policies Why Senator Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-All" Won't Work Washington, D.C. - Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow and health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research, is scheduled to release his new book, "Medicare's Victims: How the ...
Why Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-All” Won’t Work
Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) recently said, “…we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.” For years now “Medicare-for-All” has been the rallying cry for single-payer advocates. It is, if nothing else, shrewd marketing. Medicare is very popular with the American public. For example, a Harvard School of ...
Supreme Court’s Blocking of EPA’s Mercury Emissions Rule a “Setback for the Agency’s Institutional Arrogance,” Environmental Scholar Says
Washington, D.C. - With its 5-4 decision setting aside one of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) most far-reaching regulations targeting coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court "has reminded EPA that it, too, must abide by the law," said Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., senior fellow at the National Center ...
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