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Health Care Odds & Ends: Government Incompetence Edition

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1. Fixing The Doc Fix Is Tricky.  Congress is finally getting around to eliminating Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), something it should have done a long time ago.  The SGR is a system for cutting Medicare’s physician fees that has proven ...
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Conservative and Libertarian Alternatives to ObamaCare

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I was on the “Up Front” radio program on KTLF out of Minnesota this morning, and as I promised, here is a link to the spreadsheet showing all the health care reform plans offered by the political right. At issue ...
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Many Changed Their ObamaCare Plans Because It Was Too Expensive Not To

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According to the headline over at National Journal, “Obamacare Enrollees Are Surprisingly Smart Shoppers”. What makes them so smart?  Well, about 1.2 million exchange enrollees “ended up switching plans.” Or perhaps they just aren’t inordinately stupid.  After all, if keeping ...
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Fixing Veterans Health Care

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About two weeks ago Concerned Veterans for America released a report on how to reform veterans health care. The title of the report doesn’t exactly inspire confidence: “Fixing Veterans Health Care: A Bipartisan Policy Taskforce.”  Bipartisan is too often a ...
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The VA Scandal May Be Much Worse

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From USA Today: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ [Office of Inspector General] has not publicly released the findings of 140 health care investigations since 2006, potentially leaving dangerous problems to fester without proper oversight, a USA TODAY analysis of VA ...
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Gender-Bending Gym Rule Goes Too Far in Catering to LGBT Agenda

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Yvette Cormier walked into the women’s locker room of a Planet Fitness location in Midland, Michigan and claimed she saw a man changing in there.  She alerted the front desk of the gym. It was then that Cormier discovered Planet ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Defends Voter ID, Decries Big Government Abuses on MSNBC

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Appearing last week on MSNBC, Project 21 Co-Chairman Cherylyn Harley LeBon boldly spoke out in favor of laws that are protecting the integrity of the American voter from potential fraud, saying: “I’m a black leader.  I’m in favor of voter ...
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Risk Analysis Division’s Comments to Consumer Product Safety Commission on Proposed Chemical Ban

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Below are the comments submitted by RAD to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in response to a proposed rule to ban children’s toys and child care articles containing specified phthalates. I am writing on behalf of the Risk Analysis Division ...
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A Lefty Admits That ObamaCare Has Made Us More Dependent on Government

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If you are a conservative or libertarian and are in a particularly generous mood, send a thank you note to Bloomberg’s Joshua Green.  He recent piece entitled “Is Washington Ready for the Death of Obamacare?” gives us a preview of the ...
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Hard Truths Overshadow Happiness about Unemployment Figures — “About Those Jobs Numbers” for February 2015

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There’s no denying that the American economy is in a state of flux.  Where is President Barack Obama going to take our economy?  It doesn’t seem to be in the right direction by any stretch of the imagination. Employers are ...
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