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Stier Shorts Out Nanny State Argument to Unplug Kids’ Electronics

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, said a blogger’s call for banning kids under the age of 12 from using electronic devices is “ignoring balance” and will “do more harm by stifling innovation.” The nanny state ...
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What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Single-Payer Countries

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I’ll be testifying today in from the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health And Aging.  The title of the hearing is Access and Cost: “What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries.”  Although, based on the letter ...
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Dr. David Hogberg’s Senate Testimony on Government-Run Health Care Problems

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Dr. David Hogberg of the National Center for Public Policy Research testifies about foreign problems associated with government-run health care and the political problems that face patients under those systems. This testimony was presented before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on ...
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Boycott of Florida Businesses Over Stand Your Ground Criticized

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Discussion threats of a possible boycott of Florida businesses as a means of forcing the repeal of the Sunshine State’s “stand your ground” law, Project 21 member Shelby Emmett warned that protestors need to be “careful” for both legal and ...
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Death Spiral A-Comin’

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Two major takeaways from today’s exchange enrollment report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. First, the number of “young invincibles,” those ages 18-34, didn’t increase as part of the overall risk pool.  It was 25 percent at the end ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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ObamaCare Beginning To Worry Insurers. Insurance companies that participate in the exchange are worried that the exchanges won’t be viable for long.  The recent announcement by the Obama Administration that people could keep their health plans through 2015 has only ...
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Senate Democrats to Stay Up All Night to Protest that They Aren’t Doing Anything on Climate

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If they have to do a silly little protest against their own inaction, why not protest that they aren't doing anything about the debt? ...
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Rutgers Administration, Project 21 Members, Stand with Condoleezza Rice

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As the president of Rutgers University in New Jersey stands by the decision to ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at the school’s New Brunswick campus, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black ...
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About Those February Jobs Numbers

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If things are getting better, why doesn’t it feel like it… and why doesn’t the supporting information seem to support the official unemployment rate? It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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Meet Sir Richard Branson: Concentration Camp Commandant

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I wonder if Sir Richard Branson, when he called us "deniers" in response to our activism at the Apple shareholder meeting (a suggestion that we’re like holocaust deniers), realized that under a scenario in which we are akin to holocaust ...
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