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IPAB’s Non-Existence Is A Problem Too

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Over at the Washington Post, Sarah Kliff notes that the Independent Payment Advisory Board is out of the woods for now: “IPAB would only come into effect when Medicare’s per-enrollee spending grew faster than the average of overall price growth…a few ...
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Project 21 EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Township Official Called the N-Word by Colleague

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Controversy still rages in Buena Vista Township, Michigan, where the white town clerk is under fire for calling a black town supervisor the n-word in a conversation with the interim town manager.  In an exclusive set of interviews made for ...
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Project 21’s Green Talks Jobs, Economy and New Unemployment Numbers

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Today saw the release of April’s unemployment numbers.  It’s still not nearly as good as President Obama promised Americans in return for giving him the keys to the White House. The official, seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate — the one that all ...
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Is ObamaCare ‘Government-Run’ Health Care? Of Course Not…

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In one of my recent blog posts I claimed that the problem with a “government run health-care system is that the people who are in most need of health care, the sick, seldom have the political clout necessary to change ...
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Environmental Activist Scare Debunked

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In a piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I take on the Environmental Working Group for scaring the public about the safety of fruits and vegetables. We also take on the scare-hungry media for reporting on the ...
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Project 21 Members Discuss National Day of Prayer

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Today, as on every first Thursday of May, the National Day of Prayer is being observed. Originally suggested by the Continental Congress is 1775, the modern National Day of Prayer was enacted in 1952. As described on the web site ...
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ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion–Reality Intercedes

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Over at the Cato Institute, Michael Cannon writes that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, “throws a huge ‘STOP’ sign in front of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.”  Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt disagree, saying that the study ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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Some interesting pieces on health care policy, in no particular order: 1. “Obamacare’s backers and critics increasingly seem to agree that the president’s health law is in for a rocky start,” writes Peter Suderman at Reason.  He reviews Ezra Klein ...
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Project 21’s Nedd: Sharpton No Longer Seems Wedded to Religion Beliefs

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Earlier this week, Jason Collins — a mediocre player in the NBA — likely garnered himself at least one more year of play and a spot in the NBA’s Hall of Fame by announcing that he is homosexual. Reverend Al ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part V

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The evidence keeps piling up that ObamaCare is going to have some very unpleasant effects for employees and employers.  And the left stays silent.  To wit: -Adjunct professors at Virginia’s community colleges are going to see their weekly hours cut ...
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