Category: Health

Philadelphia Fed: ObamaCare Hurting Workers and Consumers

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia just released its Business Outlook Survey for August.  Here’s a table that appears on page 2: First the good news (yes, there is some).  Only three percent of employers are dropping coverage because of ...
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It Should Be Repealed Anyway

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A report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that ObamaCare’s medical device tax generated about $300 million less than what was expected.  The IRS expected that it would take in $1.2 billion from the tax in the first half of ...
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ObamaCare and Department of Veterans Affairs Show Government Health Care Rewards Failure

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Workers at Massachusetts and Maryland Health Exchanges Received Raises and Cushy Jobs Despite Poor Results VA Wait Times Scandal Demonstrates that Incompetence in Government Leads to Increased Funding Washington, D.C. - "It is very difficult to hold government employees accountable ...
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Government Health Care Rewards Failure

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Today I have a new National Policy Analysis up entitled “Government Health Care Rewards Failure.”  A version has also been published at Rare. In it I examine recent events at the ObamaCare exchanges in Maryland and Massachusetts and the waiting ...
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Government Health Care Rewards Failure

Government Health Care Rewards Failure

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A key problem afflicting government programs is that it is very difficult to hold government employees accountable for failure. Unless powerful political interests are harmed by that failure, government employees often face no penalties for incompetence or misdeeds. In fact, ...
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Nanny State Sodium Suggestions Could Actually Harm People

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Consumer rejection of allegedly healthier French fries at Burger King and new medical findings that a low sodium diet may be as unhealthy as high sodium diet created what Sun News host Brian Lilley called a “bad week for food ...
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Raising Taxes on Certain Foods, Drinks Does Little to Fight Obesity

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In an op-ed in Saturday’s Houston Chronicle, I challenge the claims being used to justify a wave of soda taxes rolling across Latin America. I also explain how this could impact the potential for taxes in the United States. What ...
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The Missouri Legislature Should Override Governor Nixon’s E-Cigarette Veto

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Now that the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed “deeming regulations” has closed, attention is shifting back to state and local legislative approaches to e-cigarettes. (See our comments to FDA.) While federal regulations ultimately have supremacy, state ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Leaving The ObamaCare Exchanges

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1. Down 44%? My former colleague at Investor’s Business Daily, Jed Graham, reports that new evidence on exchange enrollment “could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims” of 8 million enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges. Aetna, the nation’s third-largest health ...
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NCPPR’s Comments to the FDA Regarding E-Cigarette Regulations

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Today the National Center for Public Policy Research submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration regarding e-cigarette regulations known as "Deeming Regulations." When the proposed rule was first published, I told the Associated Press that "the devil will be ...
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