Category: Health

E-Cigarettes Help Tobacco Smokers Quit – Public Health Groups Should Get Out of Their Way

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An editorial in the January 15 Detroit News by our own Jeff Stier asks the question: Will Michigan Governor Snyder "drop the ball" on e-cigarettes? The Michigan legislature passed a bill to ban the sale of e-cigarettes (tobacco-free nicotine-delivery devices ...
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ObamaCare: Is 40 Hours Worse than 30?

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Under ObamaCare, employers with 100 or more full-time employees must provide those employees with health insurance or pay a fine, with “full-time” being defined as 30 hours or more a week.  Last Thursday the House of Representatives voted 252-172 to change ...
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Michigan Legislators Got E-Cig Regulation Right. Will Governor Snyder Drop the Ball? RAD Sets Record Straight

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Michigan’s legislature got it right last year, passing bills to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. Only a handful of states haven’t gotten around to this sensible, limited form of e-cigarette regulations. Under pressure from activist groups who oppose ...
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Sometimes Reality Even Finds Its Way into Harvard

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Every so often, a really wonderful article appears in the New York Times.  Robert Pear’s “Harvard Ideas on Health Care Hit Home, Hard,” is one: “For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how ...
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Important Questions and a Few Easy Steps to Stop an American Ebola Outbreak, by Kevin L. Martin

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In fighting Ebola, President Obama has repeated his strategy from the Libyan revolution and is leading from behind. As public anxiety spiked at a fever pitch, the President and his staff made pronouncements and took actions leaving more questions than ...
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There Are Good Things in the Budget Deal

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ObamaCare may have received funding through the “cromnibus” budget in Congress, but the National Center’s Dr. David Hogberg explained there are good things included in that fiscal deal making it harder for the government to implement the takeover of health ...
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Eight Lies Told by ObamaCare Supporters: Being Able to Keep Your Insurance to Fabricating Numbers of the Newly Insured

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Press Release: Eight Lies Told by ObamaCare Supporters: Being Able to Keep Your Insurance to Fabricating Numbers of the Newly Insured Washington, D.C. - "Jonathan Gruber's attempt at contrition on Tuesday would be more credible if he hadn't compounded his ...
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Eight Lies Told By ObamaCare Supporters

Eight Lies Told By ObamaCare Supporters

National Policy Analysis #668 /
Jonathan Gruber's attempt at contrition before the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee might have been convincing had Gruber not lied again. He began his testimony trying to explain away his controversial remarks that have come to light in recent ...
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Grubers’ ObamaCare: Candy Coating Over a Really Nutty Idea

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Jonathan Gruber put a candy coating around the nutty ObamaCare idea to trick people into accepting it. Just a reminder: Nuts can trigger deadly allergic reactions in some people ...
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New Congress Could See “Tons of Conflict” with White House over ObamaCare

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Asked about his predictions for health care policy reform in the next session of Congress now that the Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate, National Center policy analyst David Hogberg suggested there might be a “smattering of ...
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