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Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare State Exchanges Disaster Edition

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According to a recent article in the Washington Post, “Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama’s health law are struggling financially.” Here are some of the worst: 1. Hawaii.  The Hawaii Health Connector ...
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RAD Calls Out Caving Corporations

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“More Saving. More Doing.” That’s the Home Depot slogan. But after reading this NRO op-ed I co-authored with the Hoover Institution’s Dr. Henry I. Miller, you might think it should be, “More Caving. Less Flooring.” And of course, Lowe’s, “Never ...
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A Better Jobs Report, but Not Good Enough News for the American Economy

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According to the new government report on unemployment, April would seem to have been a better month for jobs than last March.  That’s not saying much. Despite the better-than-anticipated jobless numbers, the devil is always in the details.  Outside of ...
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Are More Young and Healthy People Signing up for ObamaCare? No.

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I got a call from One News Now the other day asking me if more young and healthy people, particularly those ages 18 to 34 who are often known as “young invincibles”, were signing up for ObamaCare.  What prompted the ...
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Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians

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Two months from today, the National Center for Public Policy Research will be releasing my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians.  It is currently available for pre-order at Amazon. In ...
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Surprise! ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion Leads to Increase in ER Visits

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That title of this blog post, of course, is intended to be sarcasm.  That an expansion of Medicaid would lead to a rise in emergency room (ER) visits is about as unexpected as looking to the east sometime early in ...
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Project 21 Members Speak Out on Baltimore Riots

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Beginning on the night that the Baltimore riots started, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network have been in demand by a media trying to figure out why the looting and rioting there is being favorably compared ...
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Justin Danhof Explains Our Work at GE on the O’Reilly Factor

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For those who missed it, here's Justin Danhof's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor in which he describes asking General Electric's Jeff Immelt if he will release GE's written communications with the State Department relating to State helping GE with a ...
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Black Conservatives on Baltimore Looting, Violence: “Felons Don’t Need ‘Space to Destroy’”

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With the nation captivated by the rioting in Baltimore and the initial shocking pro-rioter statement of the city’s mayor, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this civic crisis. Violence there was sparked ...
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The Health Care You Get Will Depend on Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition Redux

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Ben Boychuk of the Manhattan Institute is having trouble with ObamaCare.  Specifically, his son Benjamin needs injections of human growth hormone, a specialty drug.  According to Boychuk: My son Benjamin has a serious growth hormone deficiency. He’ll be 13 years old in ...
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