Year: 2015

Government Interferes with the Religious Liberty of Christian Colleges

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After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, many Christians expressed concern that the decision might result in government interference with the religious liberty of Christian institutions.  As it turns out, federal ObamaCare mandates are doing that already. My ...
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Medicare Helps the Disabled–Or Not

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As noted in an earlier blog post, the leftist Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.” The first report released under this series is entitled, “Medicare: 50 Years of Ensuring Coverage ...
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Medicare’s Victims: Order Your Copy!

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Finally!  Today is the official release of my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians! It is available at Amazon.com, both paperback ($14.99) and Kindle ($6.99). For those of you who ...
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Medicare and the Gila Monster Threat!

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Apparently, the deadline to test the new ICD-10 system with Medicare has just passed. If you’re wondering what “ICD-10” is, don’t worry …actually you should worry, for reasons I’ll explain in a bit. Anyway, ICD stands for International Classification of Disease ...
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Paid Parental Leave Shouldn’t Be Mandatory

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Should paid parental leave be mandatory in the United States?  Horace Cooper with the National Center for Public Policy Research and Elizabeth Peters with the Urban Institute discussed this issue on Al Jazeera America’s “Inside Story with Ray Suarez” on ...
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Donald Trump, the Clintons and Marijuana

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How are Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton and marijuana linked to each other? They were all topics of discussion June 28 on WHUT’s “New View with Ed Gordon,” and topics covered with zeal by our own adjunct fellow Horace ...
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Medicare’s Innovation Center Will Be Captured by Big Medical Providers

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The Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.”  Yesterday the Fund released a paper under this series entitled “Medicare Payment Reform: Aligning Incentives for Better Care.”  In it, the authors ...
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New Book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians,” To Be Released

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Tells Intimate Stories of People Who Suffer Because of Medicare's Policies Why Senator Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-All" Won't Work Washington, D.C. - Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow and health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research, is ...
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Why Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-All” Won’t Work

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Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) recently said, “…we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.” For years now “Medicare-for-All” has been the rallying cry for single-payer advocates.  It is, if nothing else, shrewd marketing.  Medicare is very popular ...
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Supreme Court’s Blocking of EPA’s Mercury Emissions Rule a “Setback for the Agency’s Institutional Arrogance,” Environmental Scholar Says

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Washington, D.C. - With its 5-4 decision setting aside one of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) most far-reaching regulations targeting coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court "has reminded EPA that it, too, must abide by the law," said Bonner ...
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