Category: Health

Is the Canadian Health Care System Better Than America’s?

What Conservatives Think /
The Left Says: "Does this mean that the American way is wrong and that we should switch to a Canadian-style single payer system? Well, yes." Source: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, as cited by Sally C. Pipes, "Health Care, ...
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Spurring Lower Prices: FDA Aided America’s Rx Drug Consumers By Not Banning Authorized Generics

National Policy Analysis #514 /
For years, generic drug manufacturers have been telling us that making more generic drugs available - earlier - is the key to saving consumers money and bringing greater access to prescription drugs. Competition, they said, will benefit millions of Americans ...
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Spurring Lower Prices: FDA Aided America’s Rx Drug Consumers By Not Banning Authorized Generics

Project 21 Commentary /
For years, generic drug manufacturers have been telling us that making more generic drugs available - earlier - is the key to saving consumers money and bringing greater access to prescription drugs. Competition, they said, will benefit millions of Americans ...
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AARP’S Campaign to Import Uncertified Drugs Poses Hazards to Seniors’ Health and Budgets, by Ak’Bar Shabazz

Project 21 Commentary /
The Medicare reform legislation passed by Congress last fall brought more affordable prescription medicines to 42 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and AARP supported it. Now, it turns out, the aggressive seniors' mar-keting lobby had an ulterior motive. While the ...
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Choosing Life Over Death By Being Conservative, by Malcolm Moore

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published May 2004 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. If you're reading this commentary you're obviously still alive. Up to this point, you probably think you've chosen ...
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Memo to Gov’t: Be Culturally Insensitive Next Time

ConservativeBlog.org /
The Captain's Quarters blog today covers a shocking case of California state officials acting as if "displaying cultural sensitivity is more worthy than the lives and health of Latino children." The issue involves candy marketed to Latino children that contains ...
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Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

Project 21 Commentary /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

National Policy Analysis #510 /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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What Conservatives Think #010904: Single-Payer Health Care: Could America Do It Without Compromising Quality?

The Left Says: "...In countries with national health insurance, urgent care is always provided immediately. Other countries do experience some waits for elective procedures (like cataract removal), but maintaining the U.S.'s same level of health expenditures (twice as much as ...
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“Snake Oil” Medicare Reform Criticized; Called “Legislative Malpractice” By Black Leader

Press Release /
Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, a father of two, suffered head injuries in an auto accident. He ...
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