Author: David Hogberg

Polar Bears In A Changing Climate: A Philosophical Showdown At CITES

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A showdown over how to protect the Earth’s polar bears is happening now at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) where the Inuit, conservationists, hunters, two Big Green groups, the governments of ...
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Congress Should Repeal Limits On New Doctor-Owned Hospitals

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My op-ed on physician-owned hospitals and Obamacare appeared in the Washington Examiner today: Congress has already repealed some undesirable parts of Obamacare, such as its meddlesome tax form requirements for small businesses (the “1099 rule”) and the unsustainable long-term care ...
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Coming Soon: Sequester Part II

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What do you think the odds are that you’d find a member of Congress who is enthusiastic about the sequester?  If you said, “Slim and None, and Slim is walking out the door,” you’d be generous. So why, as the ...
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Reporter Examines Hospitals, Falls In Love With Government-Run Health Care

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Journalist Steven Brill has penned a 20,000-plus word article for TIME magazine examining the way hospitals charge for services.  The best way to describe the article is, “It’s well worth the time to read it until he starts talking about ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part II

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As noted in a previous blog post, most left-wing pundits were silent when Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia succeeded in getting part-time state workers limited to 29 hours per week so as to avoid giving them health insurance as ...
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Can We Be REALLY Hard-Headed About Preschool?

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Grover Whitehurst, now a scholar at the Brookings Institution, has spent much of his career developing learning programs for young children.  He recently wrote two very good essays asking if we could be “hard headed” about Head Start and Universal Pre-K by admitting ...
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Government Excels At Creating Long Lines!

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One part of President Obama’s State of the Union speech actually provoked some deep thinking in me: We should follow the example of a North Miami woman named Desiline Victor. When Desiline arrived at her polling place, she was told ...
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ObamaCare and Virginia: Where’s The Lefty Outrage?

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Yesterday the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that The General Assembly has now affirmed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to order state agencies to cut back part-time employee hours to no more than 29 a week to avoid triggering a requirement under the ...
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Insurers Operating At A Loss Is A Good Thing!

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Yesterday the Kaiser Family Foundation released a white paper which largely conceded that premiums in the individual market will likely be rising under ObamaCare due to the new benefits insurance plans must provide and the sicker people the plans are ...
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Medicare Demonstration Projects: Hope Springs Eternal

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In an effort to improve quality and reduce costs, Medicare conducts “demonstration projects.”  These experiments in delivering medical care are tested in a few areas with the hope that, if they work, Medicare can apply them to the entire nation ...
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