Category: Health

Why Do Governors Chris Christie and John Kasich Want to Tax People for Trying to Quit Smoking?

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New York, NY/Chicago, IL/Washington, DC - In an op-ed in today's National Review Online, "The Christie-and-Kasich Tax Show: Why are they taxing people who are trying to quit smoking?," National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Jeff Stier joins ...
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Cohn’s Excuse For VA Failure

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Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic has an interesting analysis of the Veterans Administration scandal that runs 12 paragraphs. He should have stopped at 11. His final paragraph links VA failure to larger problems in the U.S. health care system: ...
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Activists Try to Take the Joy Out of Summer for Children and Adults

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Warning to Parents: Worrying Too Much About Ideologically-Based "Scares" Can Needlessly Ruin Summer Fun New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Risk Analysis Director Jeff Stier is responding this week to a range of ...
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Feds Can Fine You $25,000-$250,000 for Putting Wrong Information on ObamaCare Signup Forms

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Whoops! If you are one of those sneaky people who thought you could get a higher ObamaCare subsidy by lying a teensy little bit (or more) about your income when you signed up for ObamaCare, you'll want to come clean ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Exchange Edition (aka Bad News Edition)

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Although little of the news about the ObamaCare exchanges is good, let’s see if we still can’t find some humor in it. 1. Two Million Discrepancies.  Of the 5.4 million people who signed up on the federal exchanges, about 2.1 ...
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If ObamaCare Saves Lives, It Does So Very Inefficiently

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Referring to a recent study about RomneyCare in Massachusetts that finds a link between insurance status and mortality, The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn says “it makes Obamacare look good.”  In fact, it shows that ObamaCare is a grossly inefficient way ...
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UnitedHealth CEO: ObamaCare Exchanges Must be Sustainable on their Own; Company is Open to a “Variety of Forms of Assisting to See if We Can Provide Relief or Help” to Veterans and the VA

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Value of Free Markets in Health Care Stressed Las Vegas/Washington, D.C. - Following conversations both public and private with National Center for Public Policy Research President David Ridenour at his company's annual shareholder meeting this week, UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley ...
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More Black Conservatives Speak on VA Scandal

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As the scandal over the quality of veterans’ health care provided by the government continues to simmer, more members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network who have served their country are speaking out about the bureaucratic abuses ...
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Policies On Vermont Exchange Could Have Substantial Rate Hikes

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Yesterday came news that policies on the Vermont ObamaCare exchange would likely rise, although it wasn’t reported by how much. Today the Vermont Digger finds that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is asking to raise its premiums by an ...
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Celebrity-Studded Anti-Obesity Film Is Pure Propaganda

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In a piece featured on Politix today, I explain what’s going on behind the scenes in Katie Couric and Laurie David’s big-government film, “Fed Up.” If you don’t watch to watch the film or even read the reviews, you just ...
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