Category: Health
Hobby Lobby Decision Hailed by Black Activists
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are cheering today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that frees employers with strong religious beliefs from being forced to pay exorbitant fines to practice their faith. "Today, the Supreme ...
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Five Reasons for Americans to Applaud Hobby Lobby’s Victory: Freedom, Finances, Privacy, Equality and the Constitution
Washington, D.C. -National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour has the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision today in Burwell (formerly Sebelius) v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell to strike down ...
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Five Reasons the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision is Good for Americans
I made the following statement today regarding the Supreme Court's decision to strike down ObamaCare's HHS contraception mandate and uphold an employer's right not to be forced to provide birth control and early abortion drugs and devices to employees against ...
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Intellectuals and the VA: Veterans Suffer Because Of A Bad Idea
I have a new National Policy Analysis out today entitled, “Intellectuals and the VA: How A Bad Idea and Bad Reporting Contributed to a Health Care Catastrophe.” It traces how Phillip Longman’s book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare Is Better ...
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Intellectuals and Journalists Who Promoted Idea that Veterans Administration Has Best Health Care in U.S. Partially Responsible for Wait-Time Disaster
Politicians, Including President Obama and Secretary Eric Shinseki, Bought Into Ideas of Book "Best Care Anywhere" This Caused Sense of Complacency Despite 26 Reports Examining Wait-Times from 2000-2011, New Analysis Shows Washington, D.C. - The Veterans Administration scandal had been ...
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We Have an Absolute Right to Not Participate in Abortion Against Our Will
Here's hoping that when the U.S. Supreme Court hands down Burwell (formerly Sebelius) v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell on, presumably, Monday, it not only delivers a resounding victory for Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Woods by ...
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Bloomberg Soda Ban a Bust, Project 21’s LeBon Comments
In a devastating blow to the New York City nanny state of former mayor Michael Bloomberg, judges on the New York State Court of Appeals voted to uphold two lower court rulings thus keeping the city government from banning the ...
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Lesson of the VA: Employees More Likely To Cheat When They Can’t Be Fired
The VA scandal is, in part, the result of the fact that most employees at the VA have civil service protections, which makes it very difficult to terminate their employment. When employees have goals they can’t meet—such as a 14-day ...
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Skeleton of VA Nursing Home Patient Found After Missing 15 Years
Carl McKenzie, a psychiatric patient, had been missing for four months from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. In late March, his body was finally found in some underbrush near the hospital. That same day, a groundskeeper found ...
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Intellectuals and the VA: How A Bad Idea and Bad Reporting Contributed to a Health Care Catastrophe
In all the finger-pointing over the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal, one group has thus far largely escaped accountability: intellectuals. The people whose work begins and ends with ideas — academics, policy wonks and, to some extent, journalists — helped ...
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