Obama Administration Set to Ban Artificial Trans-Fats as Soon as Monday
National Center for Public Policy Research Risk Analysis Director Calls the Expected Ban a "Horrible Idea" Washington, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce a ban on artificial trans-fats as soon as Monday, a move National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow and Risk Analysis ...
Despite High Jobs Numbers for May, Obama Still Has the American Economy in a Ditch
In his ongoing analysis of the state of the American economy under President Obama’s stewardship, Project 21 member Derryck Green isn’t feeling so great these days about having been right in his previous month’s speculation that the economy was already on a downward slide. Derryck’s dismay over that, and poor ...
Save Ferris: How the 80s Favorite Truant Might Rank among America’s Most Wanted Today
Principal Rooney never caught the misbehaving Ferris Bueller. Had Matthew Broderick’s character been apprehended, at least in today’s overcriminalized society, Ferris might be very sorry he ever even thought about skipping school! While the 30th anniversary of the release of the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” film won’t occur until 2016, ...
Free-Market Organization Asks Google to Be Transparent with Investors Regarding Cost of “Green” Initiatives
Shareholder Resolution Sought Disclosure of Risk to Shareholders if Taxpayers Decide to End Generous Subsidies to Alternative Energy Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Also Criticized for Making the Company Vulnerable to a Lawsuit from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Mountain View, CA / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual ...
ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016: Ignore Them at Your Own Risk
In early June, the federal government released data on the premium increases that health insurers in 45 states and the District of Columbia are requesting for 2016.1 The numbers were eye-popping, with many requests exceeding 20 percent and a few even exceeding 50 percent. They were definitely "death spiral"-inducing premium ...
Montana: More Evidence Death Spiral Bearing Down on ObamaCare Exchanges
More evidence that the ObamaCare exchanges are heading for a death spiral, this time from Montana: Health insurers selling individual policies on Montana’s Affordable Care Act marketplace say rate increases are likely next year after they suffered losses they attribute in part to initial underestimates of the costs of the ...
Someone Should Ask Sen. Sanders If Ben and Jerry’s Offers Too Many Choices of Ice Cream
By my rough count, Ben and Jerry’s sells over fifty flavors of ice cream. Thus, it’s ironic that Ben and Jerry helped Senator Bernie Sanders kick off his campaign for president given the Senator’s recent remarks about having choices: You can’t just continue growth for the sake of growth in ...
An ObamaCare Death Spiral is on the Horizon
Leftists Claiming ObamaCare Critics Were Wrong About Death Spiral Jumped the Gun Exorbitant Premium Hikes By Some Insurers for 2016 Show Insurance "Risk Pools" Do Not Have Enough Young and Healthy People Washington, D.C. - Leftist claims that an ObamaCare death spiral won't happen are premature, argues a new National ...
The ObamaCare Death Spiral Rears Its Head
Even if the King v. Burwell case fails at the U.S. Supreme Court next month, the future for the ObamaCare exchanges is still far from assured. Even if people on the 37 federal exchanges get to keep their subsidies, chances are these people will eventually be caught in the vortex ...
Krugman Wrong Again? Death Spiral Rears Its Head
In a new National Policy Analysis, I examine whether predictions of an insurance “death spiral” on the ObamaCare exchanges have been proven wrong. The first sign of a death spiral is insurance companies requesting big premium increases, usually in the range of at least 20 percent. However, that didn’t happen ...
ObamaCare Exchange Imposes Cap on Specialty Drugs: What Could Go Wrong?
A while back I predicted that insurers on the ObamaCare exchanges would be able to charge large co-pays for high-priced speciality drugs indefinitely, since only a small number of people take specialty drugs. Given their small numbers they would not to amount to significant political force, at least one strong ...
Understanding Exactly Why “Freedom Is Not Free”
As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, Project 21 member Charles Butler has a message for those who might not understand the meaning behind a holiday that many trivialize or merely consider the beginning of summer fun: People often use phrases and idioms that sound cool and hip without ...
What Do Corky the Orca and Hercules the Chimpanzee Have in Common?
What do Corky the orca and Hercules the chimpanzee have in common? You’ll have to read my op-ed in today’s San Diego Union-Tribune. In the piece, I explain how current legal developments that will play out over the next weeks and months, could begin to impact your ability to benefit ...
Fast Food Giant McDonald’s is Pressured to Promote Sound Science Regarding Food Safety and Potential of GMOs
National Center for Public Policy Research Presents Shareholder Resolution Saying Corporate America Faces Grave Risks if it Disengages from Food Safety Debate Nation's Leading Burger Chain Deflects Responsibility - Suggests Government, Not Private Sector, Should Educate Consumers About Food and Health Issues National Center Calls Response of McDonald's "Inane" Oak ...
New York Times Columnist, Nanny State Foodie War-Monger
Imagine that. A New York Times columnist is a self-proclaimed leader of the left-wing politicization of food. In Forbesbook review together with Julie Kelly, we explain how Mark Bittman is the foodie version of a war-monger. “There’s a war here,” the New York Times columnist proclaimed at a food conference last year. His battle ...
The Impact of King v. Burwell
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, what impact will it have on our health care system and our economy more broadly? Obviously, many people in the 37 states using the federal ObamaCare exchanges will lose their premiums subsidies. On the other hand, ...
Je Suis Pamela Geller
If Pamela Geller doesn’t stand up for free speech, who will? That’s a serious questions we need to be asking ourselves, as it is deadly obvious that one of the biggest threats to free speech comes from radical Islam. Adherents of that ideology have shown time and again that they ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare State Exchanges Disaster Edition
According to a recent article in the Washington Post, “Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama’s health law are struggling financially.” Here are some of the worst: 1. Hawaii. The Hawaii Health Connector won’t be struggling anymore as it is being put out ...
RAD Calls Out Caving Corporations
“More Saving. More Doing.” That’s the Home Depot slogan. But after reading this NRO op-ed I co-authored with the Hoover Institution’s Dr. Henry I. Miller, you might think it should be, “More Caving. Less Flooring.” And of course, Lowe’s, “Never Stop Improving,” would be “Never Stop Giving Up.” Why? Because ...
A Better Jobs Report, but Not Good Enough News for the American Economy
According to the new government report on unemployment, April would seem to have been a better month for jobs than last March. That’s not saying much. Despite the better-than-anticipated jobless numbers, the devil is always in the details. Outside of the official jobless percentage, there is further information that doesn’t ...
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