Year: 2015

A Word About the Economy: “Stagnant”

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Another month has come and gone with not a lot of good economic news for Americans. Obama and his supporters might cheer at official unemployment figures that are slowly edging toward five percent like they do for other alleged economic ...

ObamaCare Is a Very Inefficient Way to Deliver Health Care

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In late July, the political left celebrated a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that purported to show that people are getting better care under ObamaCare.  Johnathan Cohn claimed that the study is “one more reason ...

Book: Medicare Harms Patients And Impairs Doctors

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Some housekeeping chores I didn’t get to last week.  First, thanks to Richard Eisenberg, who did an interview with me about Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, that appeared at both ...

Ban Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood, Say Members of the Black Leadership Network Project 21

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S. 1881, Senator Joni Ernst's Bill to Do Exactly That, to be Voted on Shortly Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are joining calls for passage of S. 1881, a bill to prohibit federal funding ...

Why ‘Medicare-for-All’ Is A Terrible Idea

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Yesterday I had another article at The Federalist examining Robert Reich’s push for single-payer health care, a.k.a. “Medicare-for-All.”  This was one of the more enjoyable pieces I’ve written in a while, so here is an excerpt: And what is Reich’s ...

Medicare’s Unhappy 50th Anniversary

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law.  The Daily Caller published my article today explaining why that is nothing to celebrate.  Here is an excerpt: Medicare has a dark underbelly that is seldom given ...

The Silliest Argument in Favor of Medicare-For-All

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Easily the most absurd claim advanced by the Medicare-for-All (i.e. single-payer) crowd is that Medicare is more efficient than private sector health insurance because it has lower administrative costs. There are numerous problems with that argument, not the least of ...

Medicare’s Victims: What Readers Are Saying

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My new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, received its first review on Amazon: I am a patient of Dr. Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, and I thoroughly enjoyed the section about her and her ...

National Center for Public Policy Research Proposes 5-Point Plan for Achieving Repeal of ObamaCare and Replacing It with a Free-Market Alternative

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"First You Win the Argument, Then You Win the Vote" Washington, D.C. - Saying Congress needs to be more aggressive about repealing ObamaCare, a Washington D.C. conservative think-tank is proposing a 5-Point Plan to help Members of Congress engage with ...

July 30 Marks the 50th Anniversary of Medicare

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Unfortunately for All Too Many, the Program Fails to Live up to Its Promise Medicare Often Denies The "Healing Miracle of Modern Medicine" to Seniors Medicare Constantly Interferes in the Doctor-Patient Relationship Washington, D.C. - "A week from today, Medicare ...

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