Year: 2014

The ObamaCare ‘Risk Corridors’ Are STILL An Insurance Company Bailout

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Two more noted writers, both in Forbes and both conservatives, have argued that the “risk corridors” in ObamaCare are not an insurance company “bailout.”  (If you don’t know what a risk corridor is, go here and scroll to the end.) ...
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E-Cigarette Super Bowl Ad Could Save Lives Because E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit Smoking Tobacco

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But Despite the Health Benefits, Anti-Smoking Activists Want the Federal Government to Ban The Ads Washington, D.C. - The public health community should be celebrating the fact that e-cigarettes are being advertised during the Super Bowl -- but the anti-tobacco ...
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Success Stories Of ObamaCare Exchange Show Why It Will Fail

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The Health Care Blog at the Health and Human Services website routinely recounts the experiences of people signing up for health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges. But what HHS often considers a “success story” is in fact an example of ...
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Minimum Wage Could Cause Maximum Pain for America’s Most At-Risk

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A minimum wage increase, a earning rate that affects just 1.1 percent of Americans workers over the age of 25, is one of the key 2014 policy priorities for President Barack Obama and his supporters. It’s a small goal that ...
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Will Iowa Be Next To Ban Use of E-cigarettes in Public Places?

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Iowa’s Attorney General wants his state to ban the use of E-cigarettes wherever cigarette smoking is banned. In a guest column on the op-ed page of today’s Des Moines Register, I explain why doing so would be a terrible idea ...
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More Black Conservative Criticism of Obama’s State of the Union Address

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Last night, just minutes after the end of the State of the Union, ten members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network issued blistering rebuttals to President Barack Obama’s angry rhetoric and sweeping promises. Today, some of those ...
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Random Thoughts On SOTU

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Read it here this morning. 2. Maybe the Hatch-Burr-Coburn health plan did do some good. I don’t think much of their health care plan for reasons I list here.  But, perhaps by releasing it a day before SOTU, it prevented ...
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The Senate GOP’s Cadillac And Honda Civic Plan Tax

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Yesterday Republican Senators Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Burr (NC) and Tom Coburn (OK) released a proposal for health-care reform. Some commentators are suggesting that Hatch-Burr-Coburn is an incremental approach in that while it “would not usher in a free market ...
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I Don’t Trust President Obama to Mean What He Says

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Can President Obama be trusted to try to keep the promises he makes in his State of the Union address? Does ObamaCare's HHS contraception and early abortion drug mandate harm women or the poor in some fashion, and if so, ...
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Stand Up for the Promise of GMOS, Free-Market Group Says at Monsanto Shareholder Meeting

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St. Louis, MO - The National Center for Public Policy Research today will speak at the annual shareholder meeting of Monsanto to counteract the message of radical activists who for the last year have planned a rally at the meeting ...
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