Year: 2015

Obama Administration Set to Ban Artificial Trans-Fats as Soon as Monday

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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 ...

Despite High Jobs Numbers for May, Obama Still Has the American Economy in a Ditch

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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 ...

Save Ferris: How the 80s Favorite Truant Might Rank among America’s Most Wanted Today

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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 ...

Free-Market Organization Asks Google to Be Transparent with Investors Regarding Cost of “Green” Initiatives

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

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 ...

Montana: More Evidence Death Spiral Bearing Down on ObamaCare Exchanges

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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 ...

Someone Should Ask Sen. Sanders If Ben and Jerry’s Offers Too Many Choices of Ice Cream

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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 ...

An ObamaCare Death Spiral is on the Horizon

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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 ...
The ObamaCare Death Spiral Rears Its Head

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 ...

Krugman Wrong Again? Death Spiral Rears Its Head

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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 ...

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