Category: Health

Danhof Defeats Hartmann in Radio Rumble Over GM Foods

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Watch as Justin Danhof, director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project takes on and soundly defeats liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann on the issue of labeling genetically modified foods. Justin cited settled science and the obvious intent of ...
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Health Care: Equity Vs. Efficiency

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In my blog post yesterday arguing that health care is a commodity, I noted that Rashi Fein, one of the architects of Medicare, argued that health care needed to emphasize equity over efficiency.  I claimed that “a system that emphasizes ...
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Health Care IS A Commodity

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Rashi Fein, one of the most important people in the development of Medicare and Medicaid, passed away two weeks ago Monday. Via his obituary, I discovered that he had written the following in the New England Journal of Medicine back ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. Did ObamaCare Increase The Number of Uninsured?  The American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos has a great piece on both the recent health insurance surveys from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Census Bureau.  According to Antos the CDC ...
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National Center 3, Food Police, 0; General Mills Investors Reject Proposal Demanding Company Remove GM Ingredients from Products

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Famous Food Brand Urged to Promote Benefits and Promises of GMOs National Center Marks Third Major Victory Against Anti-GMO Movement in 2014 Washington, D.C. / Minneapolis, MN - At today's annual meeting of General Mills shareholders, the company's investors heeded ...
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ObamaCare’s ACOs Saving Medicare A Pittance

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to be one of the great innovations in ObamaCare that will save money for Medicare and improve quality for beneficiaries.  There are two ACO programs under Medicare, the Pioneer Program and the Medicare Shared ...
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General Mills Shareholders Urged to Reject GMO Food Proposal

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National Center for Public Policy Research Warns Food-Giant Investors of Proposal's High Costs, Scare Tactics and Pseudoscience Food Companies Urged to Stand Up for the Promise of GMOs Washington, D.C. / Minneapolis, MN - The National Center for Public Policy ...
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How Many Are Still Enrolled In The ObamaCare Exchanges? People Who Care About The Truth Would Like To Know

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Here is one of my not-so-good predictions: [Various] factors will cause the eight million figure [of enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges] to be revised downward as the year goes on. Each time that happens in the coming months, the media ...
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Until Now, I’ve Been Sneezing In My Hands And Touching Every Doorknob I Could Find

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Thanks goodness for our elected officials!  Without them, we’d be so much more unsanitary! At a press conference yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reminded us to wash our hands. “It’s amazing how such a ...
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Meet Pam Hopmann–ObamaCare Made Her Coverage Worse

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I followed up my study on the quality of policies on the ObamaCare exchanges with an op-ed in RARE.  It began with the story of Pam Hopmann: Like millions of Americans, Pam Hopmann of Chesterfield, Missouri received a notice cancelling ...
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