Category: Health

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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National Center for Public Policy Research Urges Coca-Cola to Conduct Public Education Campaign About Safety of GMOs

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As Celebrities Such as Dr. Oz and Self-Appointed Food Police Such as the "Food Babe" Sow Discord over GMOs, Science Shows GMOs are Safe Big Business Has Moral Obligation to Take Truth to the Public Coca-Cola CEO Recognizes and Applauds ...
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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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Goal: Reduce Harm from Tobacco Use; Jeff Stier to Speak at Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association 2015 Annual Conference

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Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, will give a talk on "Making Policy Decisions" at the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association's (SFATA) 2015 annual conference, "Revolution to Evolution: Next Steps for the ...
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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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Free-Market Activist Shares ObamaCare Alternatives with Major Health Care Insurer

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With U.S. Supreme Court Possibly Poised to Deal Crippling Blow to ObamaCare, National Center for Public Policy Research Presents Cigna Directors With "Baker's Dozen" of Free-Market Health Care Reform Ideas Shareholder Advocacy Dispels Left-Wing Narrative that Conservatives Lack Viable Alternatives ...
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ObamaCare’s Amazing Wayback Clause

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The above is the title of a piece by David Catron at the American Spectator.  The “Wayback Clause” in ObamaCare is responsible for the law’s ability to impact phenomena prior to the law going into effect.  Catron noted that “most ...
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Free Market Group Asks Major Health Insurer to Explain Continued Support for ObamaCare

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As U.S. Supreme Court Considers Case that May Unravel ObamaCare, National Center for Public Policy Presents Humana Board with a Baker's Dozen of Free-Market Health Care Reform Plans Left-Wing Narrative that Conservatives Have No Viable Health Care Alternatives to ObamaCare ...
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Another Reason to Oppose the Medicare Doc Fix Bill

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I’m trying really hard to support the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act” (MACR). Yesterday, I pointed out that it included a new Medicare payment system called the Medicare Incentive-Based Payment System (MIPS) that will incentivize physicians to avoid the ...
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