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Health Care Odds & Ends: Leaving The ObamaCare Exchanges

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1. Down 44%? My former colleague at Investor’s Business Daily, Jed Graham, reports that new evidence on exchange enrollment “could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims” of 8 million enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges. Aetna, the nation’s third-largest health ...
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Project 21’s Arps Dispels Myths About Missouri Riots

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Ferguson, Missouri has never been a place of simmering racial animus said Project 21 member Christopher Arps, a resident of the St. Louis area who is familiar with the town now in the national spotlight.  Speaking about the police shooting ...
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NCPPR’s Comments to the FDA Regarding E-Cigarette Regulations

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Today the National Center for Public Policy Research submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration regarding e-cigarette regulations known as "Deeming Regulations." When the proposed rule was first published, I told the Associated Press that "the devil will be ...
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Why I’m Obsessed with Salon’s Obsession with Obsession

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I wonder at how often Salon.com uses certain words, such as "obsession" and "wingnut." Today I looked. 41,900 times for "obsession," 7,830 for "wingnut." Some of the things we wingnuts are "obsessed" by: the medical device tax, Dinesh D'Souza, exaggerating, ...
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Obama Foster Plan for Illegal Kids “Ripe for Abuse”

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Current plans to put many of the illegal immigrant children now being held by the government into foster care is a strategy that is “ripe for abuse.”  In an discussion with host Rick Amato on the One America News Network, ...
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Barney Frank: We Know What’s Best For You

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Last Friday the Huffington Post reported that former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank said the Obama Administration “lied to people” when it claimed that you could keep your health insurance plan if you liked it. While that got most of the ...
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Federal Reserve Policy: Robbing the Poor to Feed the Rich

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s intern, Scott Alford. Income inequality is poised to be the defining issue of America’s next few election cycles. Yet, few political leaders understand that one of the most influential sources of inequality originate ...
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ObamaCare: Rewarding Failure Again

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Apparently, the reward for failure at the Massachusetts exchange isn’t as good as the reward for failure at the Maryland exchange.  It’s better! From the editorial page of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Sentinel & Enterprise: The latest example of government’s Mouseketeers Club ...
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ObamaCare: Rewarding Failure

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So, what happens when you botch an ObamaCare exchange?  You get a very soft landing.  From the Baltimore Sun: Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein said Wednesday he plans to leave his post as secretary of the state Department of Health and ...
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Jobless Report the Newest Bad Economic News for Obama (“About Those Jobs Numbers” for July)

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Unemployment is up again. It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means the government released the unemployment numbers for the previous month. Earlier in the week, it was all smiles for the Obama Administration as the U.S. Department ...
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