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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. ObamaCare has increased Medicaid coverage by 3.9 million—NOT SO FAST!  If one examines closely the recent ObamaCare exchange enrollment report, you’ll notice that about 27% of the enrollment in Medicaid is in states that did not expand Medicaid under ...
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Pennsylvania Voter ID Down But Not Out

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Pennsylvania’s voter protection law was struck down today by a commonwealth judge.  An appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is likely. Enacted in 2012 but never enforced due to immediate legal challenges, Pennsylvania’s ballot protection law requires that prospective voters ...
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House Votes To Force Obama Admin. To Release Exchange Data

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Around noon today the House of Representatives approved H.R. 3362, the “Exchange Information Disclosure Act,” a bill authored by Representative Lee Terry (R-NE).  The vote was 259 to 154 with 33 Democrats joining 226 Republicans to vote aye. As I explore ...
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Jeff Stier on Genetically-Modified Labeling

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division, chats with talk radio host and rancher Trent Loos about the politics of genetically-modified foods. New legislation has been proposed in Congress to label such foods ...
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Has ObamaCare Reduced Medicare Spending? Part 1

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, claimed  that the current slowdown in national health care spending “is thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act….Many factors, including ...
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Right v. Left Debate: Should U.S. Supreme Court Strike Down the Executive Branch’s Poaching of Recess Appointment Authority from the Senate?

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case for the separation of powers, National Labor Relations Board v. Canning. This is a case testing the constitutionality of the Obama Administration's effort to steal some power from ...
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Has ObamaCare Reduced Medicare Spending? Part 2

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Last Friday I examined Jason Furman’s claim that Obamacare has reduced Medicare spending since 2010.  Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, attributed the slower Medicare growth rate to “innovations” contained in Obamacare like penalizing hospitals for ...
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Another Really Bad Obamacare Enrollment Report

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Today’s enrollment report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services finally releases data on the age breakdown in the Obamacare exchanges.  As many of us have expected, the exchanges aren’t even close to the number of young people the ...
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If You Ever Had Any Doubt the Media is Biased on Climate, This Should End Your Doubt

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The indefatigable David Rose of Britain's Daily Mail, working with British climate blogger Tony Newberry, has today exposed bias in news reporting of climate change of a scale heretofore unknown, even for that never-accurately-covered subject. He reveals that, in a ...
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About Those December Jobs Numbers…

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Even though only a meager number of jobs were created during the month of December and workforce participation fell, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics nonetheless says the official unemployment rate actually dropped at the end of 2013 to 6.7 ...
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