Category: Health

Aetna Joins Other Health Insurance CEOs in Declining to Refuse a Taxpayer Bailout Under ObamaCare

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Denver, CO/Washington, D.C. - After quizzing from the National Center for Public Policy Research's Justin Danhof, Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini on Friday joined other health insurance CEOs questioned by the National Center in refusing to pledge to reject a ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Good News Edition

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Let’s start this Monday with good news on the health care front.  (Back to your regularly scheduled commentary on ObamaCare exchanges and Veterans Affairs tomorrow.) 1. Reference Pricing.  A few years ago the health care plan that services CalPERS workers ...
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Will Obama Call Keontai? Was the Call to Sandra Just a Fluke?

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Remember when Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor President Obama supported when the professor got in a dispute with Cambridge, Massachusetts police? Remember Sandra Fluke, the law student who championed ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate, got criticized by conservatives and then was ...
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OIG Investigation Into Veterans Affairs Scandal Doesn’t Go Far Enough

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The Office of Inspector General’s interim report on the Veterans Affairs scandal is too limited in scope.  The only health consequence of waiting lists at the VA that the investigators are focusing on is mortality.  But patients who must wait ...
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Government Hurts Health Care: VA Scandal, ObamaCare and Other Failures All Point to one Fact: Private Health Care is Better for Patients

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National Center for Public Policy Research Has Attended Seven Shareholder Meetings of Major Health Industry Companies; Meeting with CEOs; More Meetings Today and Monday Washington, D.C. - Whether it is the Veterans Administration, ObamaCare, or other failures and scandals, the ...
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National Center’s Hogberg Suggests Elites Might Benefit Most from ObamaCare

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Even though ObamaCare is still in relative infancy, it already seems to be at a tipping point.  A time can be seen where government subsidies cannot sustain demands for coverage.  Furthermore, the “truly sick… don’t have much in the way ...
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Black Veteran Speaks Out on VA Scandal

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As the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to fester, Project 21 member Kevin Martin, a Navy veteran, weighs in on the lack of decisive action on the part of the Obama Administration: There are plenty of veterans ...
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VA Scandal Not A Reason For Privatization But Is An Excuse For More Spending

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Reading over defenses of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has me wondering if there is ever any reason in the mind of a liberal to turn a government program over to the private sector?  In this particular case dozens of ...
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Politix: Consumer Groups Fight Back Against Junk Science Tactics

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In a piece in today’s Politix, I write about some push-back against the junk science activists. With increasing frequency, activist groups are trying to remove safe and useful products from the market. Why? Because they think they can fool consumers, ...
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Stopping The ObamaCare Enrollment Report Makes Perfect Sense–Politically

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When it came out that the Dept. of Health and Human Services was, for at least the time being, discontinuing the monthly exchange enrollment reports, Cato’s Michael Cannon said “HHS Has Lost Their Minds.” There is a case to be ...
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