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Health Care IS A Commodity

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Rashi Fein, one of the most important people in the development of Medicare and Medicaid, passed away two weeks ago Monday. Via his obituary, I discovered that he had written the following in the New England Journal of Medicine back ...
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We Have No Liberty: Now the Government is Coming for Our Hobbies

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The state of California has fined a hobbyist winery $115,000 because some of the people working at the --- let me use this word again -- HOBBYIST winery were volunteers. National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith, who knows as much ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. Did ObamaCare Increase The Number of Uninsured?  The American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos has a great piece on both the recent health insurance surveys from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Census Bureau.  According to Antos the CDC ...
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ObamaCare’s ACOs Saving Medicare A Pittance

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to be one of the great innovations in ObamaCare that will save money for Medicare and improve quality for beneficiaries.  There are two ACO programs under Medicare, the Pioneer Program and the Medicare Shared ...
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How Many Are Still Enrolled In The ObamaCare Exchanges? People Who Care About The Truth Would Like To Know

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Here is one of my not-so-good predictions: [Various] factors will cause the eight million figure [of enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges] to be revised downward as the year goes on. Each time that happens in the coming months, the media ...
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Until Now, I’ve Been Sneezing In My Hands And Touching Every Doorknob I Could Find

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Thanks goodness for our elected officials!  Without them, we’d be so much more unsanitary! At a press conference yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reminded us to wash our hands. “It’s amazing how such a ...
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Meet Pam Hopmann–ObamaCare Made Her Coverage Worse

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I followed up my study on the quality of policies on the ObamaCare exchanges with an op-ed in RARE.  It began with the story of Pam Hopmann: Like millions of Americans, Pam Hopmann of Chesterfield, Missouri received a notice cancelling ...
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ObamaCare Has Harmed The Quality Of Insurance

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Most of you remember late last year when millions of people were losing their insurance plans in the individual market.  At the time, many ObamaCare apologists, including the president himself, tried to excuse the cancellations by saying that the health plans ...
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Thank you, Oklahoma Daily, for Sowing Discord and Inaccuracy

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How much whining should the world have to put up with? This article, by the editorial board of the Oklahoma Daily, complains that calling a bra's color "nude" is "racist." Please, people. In other countries, children are being buried alive ...
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Never Forget

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