Category: Health

Yes, Conservatives DO Have ObamaCare Alternatives

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On RT Network’s “The Big Picture,” Project 21’s Hughey Newsome told host Thom Hartmann that the reason Hartmann knew of no conservative alternatives to ObamaCare isn’t because there aren’t any — it’s because the mainstream media refuses to talk about ...
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Horace Cooper Decries Single-Payer Health Care and Government Witch Hunts Against Conservatives

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Project 21’s Horace Cooper dominated the debate during the RT Network’s “Big Picture Rumble” Wednesday night. First, Horace challenged host Thom Hartmann’s claim that our nation would be better off with a single-payer health care system similar to those found ...
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Are Salt Warnings the Best Way to Improve the Way People Eat?

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Chain restaurants in New York City will now be adding sodium warnings to their menus.  But is that the best way to improve diners’ health? Jeff Stier, the director of the Risk Analysis Division at the National Center for Public ...
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Environmentalists Don’t Want You to Eat Meat

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Those who are concerned about climate change are now also concerned with your meat intake. And it turns out that the recent hype over a perceived meat-cancer link could be a result of environmental scare-mongering. Food writer Julie Kelly, co-author ...
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Climate Change “Busybodies” May Be Behind Latest Meat-Causes-Cancer Scare

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Washington, D.C. - National Center Risk Analysis Director Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly are arguing in an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that there may be a climate change-related political activism agenda behind the recent "eating meat ...
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Risk Expert Says Calls to Stop Serving Processed Meats in Schools Should Be Rejected

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Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Risk Analysis Director Jeff Stier has released the following statement regarding the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) classification of processed meats as carcinogens and a call for the United ...
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Liberals Play Politics with Government Dietary Standards

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The National Center's Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly took on the politicization of -- of all things -- the federal government's dietary guidelines in an article for National Review this week: Over the past 30 years, the Dietary ...
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More Disturbing News from the Abortion Industry

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Project 21’s Stacy Washington has commented on yet another disturbing story from the abortion industry: More sad news on the abortion front here in the U.S. A police raid in tony West Bloomfield Michigan has turned up 14 containers of ...
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Free Market Health Care Reform Requires Both Refundable Tax Credits and Large Health Savings Accounts

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Including Both in an ObamaCare Replacement Will Give Americans More Choices of How to Fund Their Health Insurance This Can Bridge the Divide on the Political Right over How Best to Reform the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Use Medicaid ...
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Refundable Tax Credits or Large Health Savings Accounts? Let’s Do Both

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Executive Summary There is a big divide on the political right over the tax treatment of health insurance, a divide that threatens to derail any effort to offer a free-market alternative to ObamaCare. One side of the debate favors refundable ...
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