Year: 2015

Medical Records: Got Privacy?

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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 ...
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Evidence Mounting that Michelle Obama’s Signature School Lunch Policy is a Failure

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$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 ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare Exchanges One Problem For Another

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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 & ...
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Project 21 Mourns Senseless and Tragic Murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston

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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 ...
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Black Americans Must Defend, Enhance Their Freedom; Juneteenth Emancipation Anniversary Offers Chance to Assess How Government Infringes on Rights, Opportunities

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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 ...
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ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016–Ignore Them at Your Own Risk

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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 ...
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ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016—Ignore Them at Your Own Risk

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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 ...
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Ambulance Transport and Medicare’s Victims

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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 ...
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Remember Robert Stethem

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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 ...
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Ban Flavored E-cigarettes?

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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 ...
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