Category: Health

Starbucks Applauded for Standing Firm in Defense of GMOs

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Free-Market Activist Group Urges International Coffee Giant to Reject Doing Business with Suppliers Working With Activists Opposing Company and Humanitarian Interests Seattle, WA / Washington, D.C. - At the annual meeting of Starbucks shareholders in Seattle Wednesday, the National Center ...
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Death Spiral Still A Comin’

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While some on the left have emphatically claimed there won’t be a death spiral, the ObamaCare exchanges don’t appear to be listening: Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration ...
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Why No One Trusts The Obama Administration, Part MVIII

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Well, on Monday the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) trumpeted the news that 5 million people had enrolled in the ObamaCare exchanges.  Unfortunately, releasing data early is something that HHS can’t do lest the data be unreliable.  For ...
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Disney Chief Robert Iger Calls ABC News “Fair and Balanced” In Response to Media Bias Question at Shareholder Meeting Today

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But that's the Fox News Slogan....? Iger Declines to Apologize for ABC News' Role in Empowering President Obama's "If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep your Health Care Plan" Lie Portland, OR / Washington, D.C. - Responding ...
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Is Disney’s Robert Iger a Closet Fox News Fan?

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With the help of research materials from Newsbusters and the Media Research Center, the National Center for Public Policy Research today challenged Disney chief Robert Iger over media bias at ABC News at Disney's annual shareholder meeting. National Center Free ...
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Single-Payer Without Wait Times? Taiwan Is On Borrowed Time

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One other matter I didn’t get a chance to address during my testimony at the recent Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging hearing was the issue of why Taiwan, a single-payer health care system, does not use wait times to ...
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No, 45,000 People Do Not Die Annually Because They Are Uninsured

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There were a number of issues I wanted to address during the Senate hearing at which I testified Tuesday, but for which time did not permit. One was the claim that 45,000 Americans die each year because they lack health ...
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Stier Shorts Out Nanny State Argument to Unplug Kids’ Electronics

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, said a blogger’s call for banning kids under the age of 12 from using electronic devices is “ignoring balance” and will “do more harm by stifling innovation.” The nanny state ...
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Statement of Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier in Response to Chimerix Decision to Make Experimental Drug Brincidofovir Available to Seven-Year-Old Boy

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New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - The following is the response of Jeff Stier, director of the National Center's Risk Analysis Division, to the decision of the drug company Chimerix to make an experimental drug, Brincidofovir, available to an ...
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What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Single-Payer Countries

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I’ll be testifying today in from the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health And Aging.  The title of the hearing is Access and Cost: “What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries.”  Although, based on the letter ...
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