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Job Opening: National Center for Public Policy Research Seeks Assistant to the Executive Director

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The National Center for Public Policy Research is seeking a hard-working, detail-oriented person to serve as an assistant to the executive director. The job is full-time (9-5:30, M-F) on-site at our headquarters a short walk from Union Station on Capitol ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Disaster Edition

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By now you are surely aware of what a disaster the roll out of the ObamaCare exchange websites has been.  When MSNBC runs out of patience when trying to log in, Ezra Klein says the website is terrible, and USAToday calls it a ...
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Label GMO’s? The Warnings Need a Warning Label

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In a column for Forbes, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I dismantle the arguments behind mandatory GMO labeling initiatives. We conclude, as this NCPPR infographic illustrates, anti-GMO activists' claims fail every test scientific, economic, legal and common sense. Both the op-ed ...
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Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: Idaho Version

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Supporters of ObamaCare have come up with some clever ways of making the premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges look quite good.  For example, one common refrain found in this HHS report was repeated endlessly by the media: “Premiums before tax ...
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Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: D.C. Version, Pt 2

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Well, I finally managed to create an account at the Washington, D.C. health insurance exchange known as “DC Health Link.”  And it worked! Well, sort of.  When I used the “Browse plans without completing an application” option and filled out ...
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Project 21’s Martin Wants Washington to Budget Like Everyone Else

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Laying the blame at the feet of President Obama and his friends on Capitol Hill who continue to refuse to compromise on the spending in general and ObamaCare in particular, Kevin Martin has had enough. Kevin, a member of the ...
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Comparing Health Insurance Markets

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As I noted yesterday in my post on the Oregon exchange, I don’t take very seriously the argument that “Yes, prices are higher on the ObamaCare exchanges but the insurance comes with more benefits.” First, to anyone who makes that ...
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NAACP Tries, Fails to Legalize Race-, Sex-Selection Abortion in Arizona

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An attempt by an NAACP affiliate to overturn a ban on race and sex-based abortions was thwarted. A white federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush blunted a lawsuit filed on behalf of a local NAACP chapter seeking to ...
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Why is the White House Residence Still Open?

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NASA has kicked its interns -- at least one from as far away as Puerto Rico, so you know he's not going to commute from home -- out of government housing due to the partial government shutdown. The federal government ...
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Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: Oregon Version

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Continuing the series on how plans on the ObamaCare exchanges compare to plans on ehealthinsurance, today we’ll look at the Oregon exchange, called “Cover Oregon.”  (See previous entries on California and Colorado). Cover Oregon has a nice feature on its ...
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