Medicare’s Victims: Available One Week from Today
My book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, will be available next Monday, July 6. You can pre-order now at Amazon.com. Both paperback and Kindle versions are available. In the coming days I’m going to blog about some of the themes ...
How Will the Pope’s Position Affect the Poor and the Presidential Election?
How will Pope Francis’s climate change encyclical impact the world’s poorest citizens? And will it affect the upcoming presidential election? Bonner Cohen of the National Center for Public Policy Research and Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution had a thoughtful conversation about the possibilities in their June 24 appearance on ...
Horace Cooper Rumbles with Thom Hartmann on Trade, Trans Fats, Climate Change and Women’s Health Funding
On June 17, Horace Cooper held back no punches as part of “The Big Picture Rumble” on the RT Network. Host Thom Hartmann moderated the panel that also included Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com and TJ Helmstetter of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Flabbergasted that congressional Republicans were supporting President Obama’s ...
Justice Scalia May Be Snarky, But He’s Also Quite Correct
The Washington Post's Wonkblog staff, in an article published at 10:33 AM today, says Associate Justice Antonin Scalia "may have already won for snarkiness" in his dissent in the Obamacare case handed down today. It is amusing that the Post published this mere minutes after the decision was handed down, ...
Black Conservatives React to U.S. Supreme Court Decision for Use of “Disparate Impact” in Administration of Fair Housing Act
Washington, D.C. - Legal and policy experts with the Project 21 black leadership network are available for comment on today's U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows perceived group racial disparities to be used as a trigger for enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. "When those statistical differences alone are used ...
Supreme Court Ruling in King v. Burwell Means Americans Will Have to Wait Longer for a Free-Market Health Care System
ObamaCare Is Unsustainable as Exchanges Will Eventually Devolve into a Death Spiral Ruling Also a Blow to the Rule of Law Washington, D.C. - The Supreme Court's ruling in King v. Burwell means Americans will have to wait longer for greater liberty in their health care system, said Dr. David ...
Rush Limbaugh 1, Pope Francis, 0 – But Why?
Rush Limbaugh, at the end of the first hour of his June 22 show: It's not just climate change for the Pope. The Pope has now said that the weapons manufacturers cannot call themselves Christians, yet he wondered why the allies did not bomb the railroads leading to the concentration ...
Project 21’s Kevin Martin Commends SC Governor Nikki Haley for Pressing for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag
Project 21's Kevin Martin is praising South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's decision to push for removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from that state's capitol grounds: I commend South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley for making the courageous call for the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the capitol grounds ...
The Patient Freedom Act: A Roadmap for ObamaCare Opponents if Plaintiffs Win in King v. Burwell
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the soon-to-be announced decision on King v. Burwell, over 7 million people in the 37 states without state-based exchanges will lose their subsidies.1 That's because the plaintiffs in the case maintain ObamaCare allows subsidies to flow only to ...
The Patient Freedom Act: A Roadmap for ObamaCare Opponents if Plaintiffs Win in King v. Burwell
Patient Freedom Act Moves Us Toward A Free-Market Health Care System In Addition to Good Policy, the Bill is also Politically Savvy Washington, D.C. - "The Patient Freedom Act provides a very good way forward should the plaintiffs win in King v. Burwell," says Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow for ...
Medical Records: Got Privacy?
Twila Brase is a public health nurse and the founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. CCHF specializes in protecting medical privacy and in ways to opt out of ObamaCare and other government programs. (For example, check out CCHF’s website called ITSMYDNA.ORG.) In the below interview Brase explains how ...
Evidence Mounting that Michelle Obama’s Signature School Lunch Policy is a Failure
$15 Billion Program Must Be Reauthorized by Congress in September to Continue Washington, D.C. - Mounting evidence shows Mrs. Obama's signature school lunch program, funded through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, may be leaving kids hungry while not contributing to their health, says a new Wall Street Journal op-ed by ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare Exchanges One Problem For Another
1. First the “Front End” of the ObamaCare website was a problem. Now the “Back End” is. The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services released a report stating that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services “did not effectively ensure the accuracy” of $2.8 billion ...
Project 21 Mourns Senseless and Tragic Murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston
Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are joining millions of Americans in mourning the senseless and tragic murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston Wednesday night. Among their comm "A sanctuary of worship and spiritual devotion in Charleston, SC was interrupted by ...
Black Americans Must Defend, Enhance Their Freedom; Juneteenth Emancipation Anniversary Offers Chance to Assess How Government Infringes on Rights, Opportunities
Washington, D.C. - On "Juneteenth," the oldest and most popular observance of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network call upon their fellow black Americans to use the civil rights-themed holiday as a tool to assess how they can take full ...
ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016–Ignore Them at Your Own Risk
Leftists Do Americans a Disservice When They Say the Hikes Are "No Big Deal" Data Shows Problem is Worsening and ObamaCare Exchanges Face a Death Spiral Washington, D.C. - "Leftists who claim that anticipated premium hikes on the ObamaCare exchanges are nothing to worry about are doing Americans a disservice," ...
ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016—Ignore Them at Your Own Risk
Today the National Center is releasing my latest National Policy Analysis entitled “ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016—Ignore Them at Your Own Risk.” It examines in depth the requested premium increases for individual policies on the ObamaCare exchanges for 2016 that were released via the federal website “Rate Review” back in ...
Ambulance Transport and Medicare’s Victims
On July 6, I have my first book coming out entitled Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. One of the main themes of the book is that patients and physicians who struggle with Medicare usually lack political power. In other words, ...
Remember Robert Stethem
On this day in 1985, the lifeless body of Navy diver Robert Stethem was dumped on the tarmac of the Beirut International Airport by Hezbollah terrorists who hijacked TWA flight 847. Prior to his execution, he had reportedly been beaten and tortured. Why? Stetham was targeted because he was a ...
Ban Flavored E-cigarettes?
Cities and states around the country are considering banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes. The city of Minneapolis, for instance, is considering legislation on the issue this week. In my letter to the bill’s sponsors I explain why doing so would actually undermine public health. Dear Council Members Gordon and Yang, ...
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