Category: Health

Anti-GMO Proposal Denounced at Safeway Shareholder Meeting

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Shareholder Activists Visit Four Corporations to Urge Enhanced Fight Against Efforts by Organic Food Industry to Stigmatize GMO Foods Washington, D.C. / Pleasanton, CA - At the annual meeting of Safeway shareholders this past Friday in Pleasanton, California, the overwhelming ...
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Jonathan Gruber: Hero of the Republic

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I’ve previously dubbed Jonathan Gruber as “Society’s Spokesman.”  I’m now also conferring on the MIT professor and architect of ObamaCare the title Hero of the Republic.  The reason is back in 2012 he stated that ObamaCare only permitted premium subsidies ...
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ObamaCare: How’s That ‘Honor System’ Working Out For You?

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In July of last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Service admitted that it wouldn’t have the capabilities to check an applicant’s income eligibility for the premium subsidies on the ObamaCare exchanges. Instead, HHS decided it would “accept the applicant’s ...
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4th Circuit Agrees: No Evidence Of Congressional Intent. But…

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in King vs. Burwell in effect agrees with the D.C. Circuit Court about the evidence of Congressional intent regarding whether premium subsidies should be available on federal exchanges (p. 29): …we cannot discern ...
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Lies, Damned Lies, And ObamaCare Statistics

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With apologies to Mark Twain, there are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are ObamaCare statistics. Case in point is a column written by Vicki Simons touting the supposed positive effects of ObamaCare: The positive results of ACA: ...
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Halbig vs. Burwell: As D.C. Circuit Correctly Noted, There Was No Evidence Of Congressional Intent

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In Halbig vs. Burwell, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals got it right.  People who get their insurance through a federal exchange under ObamaCare are not eligible for premium subsidies.  (For some background on the case, go here.) Arguably the ...
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NAACP, ACLU Sue Again to Make it Legal to Abort Babies Because of Race, Sex

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Having been thrown out of one court already, the NAACP is once again suing to make it legal to abort babies in the state of Arizona solely on the basis of the race or sex of the unborn. Previously, in ...
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VA’s Problem: “Bureaucrats Will Take Care of Bureaucrats”

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Discussing the Department of Veterans Affairs crisis, National Center policy analyst David Hogberg said the simple diagnosis of veterans’ health care ills is that “bureaucrats will take care of bureaucrats.” On the 7/10/14 edition of the “Rick Amato Show” on ...
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E-Cigarettes “Biggest Boon to Public Health”

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, points out that e-cigarettes are a “huge threat” to the traditional tobacco industry and “good news for public health.” On “Real Money with Ali Velshi” on the Al Jazeera America ...
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The VA Scandal: Longman’s Other Bad Idea

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Phillip Longman’s book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours contributed to the current VA scandal by creating a sense of complacency among those in the Congress and the Obama Administration who were charged with overseeing ...
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