Category: Health

We Are Sending E-Cigs to President Obama. The Washington Times Reports.

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The Washington Times’ Cheryl K. Chumley reported today, President Obama at the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation summit in China raised some eyebrows Tuesday morning, at least among members of the attending press pool and an observant Chinese blogger — for chewing gum at inappropriate times. Mentioned ...
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What Conservatives Should Demand From The GOP On Health Care In The Next Two Years

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Conservatives should, as a matter of course, demand that Congressional Republicans get on with the business of repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with free market reforms in the next two years.  The question is, which strategy is best for achieving ...
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Insurance Cancellations Up To About 350,000. Thanks ObamaCare!

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Last year when ObamaCare was causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, President Obama issued an executive order letting insurers maintain those plans for another year.  Some lucky people had plans with insurers who decided to extend them ...
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Life Expectancy Is Great Measure Of A Health Care System–If Your Aim Is To Criticize The U.S.

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Chris Conover has a good post over at Forbes pointing out that life expectancy is a terrible measure of the effectiveness of a health care system: Stanford professor Victor Fuchs recently pointed out something that might surprise many critics of the U.S. health care ...
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ObamaCare Politics Can Be Hazardous To Your Health, by Elaina George, MD

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ObamaCare proponents are getting exactly what they wanted. As more becomes known about what was actually in the bill, it's clear the majority of Americans were the losers. Supporters of the governmental takeover of health care declared victory because there ...
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What Obama Never Told You About ObamaCare Costs Could Hurt YOU Next Year

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In an opinion column that appeared in newspapers nationwide, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute points out something about ObamaCare few realize: Next year, some [people who bought health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange] will face real sticker shock because ...
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New York City Council Considers Pro-Cigarette Legislation

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I'll be visiting with members of the New York City Council today. They are now considering a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in New York City. My arguments against the proposal are laid out in an op-ed ...
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Observers, Press Kicked Out of United Nations Tobacco Conference in Moscow

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Observer Jeff Stier of National Center for Public Policy Research Says Secretive Conference Has Now Endorsed Policies that Will Lead to More Tobacco Smoking Washington, D.C. - Credentialed media and members of the public were kicked out of the United ...
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Nine “Diseases” CDC Considers More Important Than Ebola

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The best way to determine the priorities of any government agency is to look at how its budget is spent. Unfortunately, a detailed budget from the Centers for Disease Control isn’t available, so we must use other methods to determine ...
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Claims of Racist Ebola Care “Absurd” and “Hurtful”

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Project 21 member Council Nedd II was one of the first people in America to contract the H1NI swine flu virus in 2009.  His doctor sent him home, much like doctors originally turned away Thomas Eric Duncan, the first American ...
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