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Lesson of the VA: Employees More Likely To Cheat When They Can’t Be Fired

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The VA scandal is, in part, the result of the fact that most employees at the VA have civil service protections, which makes it very difficult to terminate their employment. When employees have goals they can’t meet—such as a 14-day ...
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The Constitution Beats Barack Obama, 9-0

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An amusing side note to the major Supreme Court case decided today, NLRB. v. Noel Canning, is how many people believe Noel Canning is a man. For example, this lead paragraph in The Wire: In a narrow ruling that preserves ...
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Skeleton of VA Nursing Home Patient Found After Missing 15 Years

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Carl McKenzie, a psychiatric patient, had been missing for four months from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Virginia.  In late March, his body was finally found in some underbrush near the hospital.  That same day, a groundskeeper found ...
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Commonwealth Fund Study: Cost Versus Access

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I recently appeared on the Andrew Wilkow show to discuss the new Commonwealth Fund study that purports to show that the U.S. health care system is dead last among 11 industrialized nations. Greg Scandlen adds some more points about the ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court Should Stop Keeping Secret What Cases It is Handing Down and When

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Far be it for me to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ways many and sundry of communicating that its members are superior to those of us who are (so it thinks) mere peons in comparison, but why must ...
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The IRS Scandal: Lessons from Scripture

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Matthew 9:9-13 "As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, 'Follow me.' And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner in the ...
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Who Does Washington Fear More… Americans, or Foreign Aggressors?

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It appears Washington fears Americans. The new Pentagon budget, proposed earlier this year, would cut our Army down to a pre-World War II level of between 440,000 and 450,000 soldiers. That's a decline of over 25% just after 9/11. At ...
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When Bush Was in the Middle of a World Financial Meltdown, His Employment Numbers Were Still Better Than Obama’s Today

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The United States should change how we measure the health of the economy. The unemployment rate tells us very little given that those who get discouraged exit the labor market, lowering the unemployment rate. Wouldn't a better measure be the ...
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NCPPR’s Hogberg Discusses Health Care Hassles in Several TV Interviews

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Dr. David Hogberg, the National Center’s policy analyst for health care issues, appeared on two television interviews this week. On the Soul of the South’s “D.C. Breakdown” program on 6/16/14, David was asked about the 8 million people the Obama ...
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RAD Director Jeff Stier to UN Panel: Private Sector Involvement is Key to Fighting Non-Communicable Diseases

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National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier spoke at the United Nations today, urging delegates there to recall that voluntary, private sector initiatives can and should be an effective part of the mix in deterring non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs, ...
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