Category: Health

Free-Market Fixes Could Still Save American Health Care, by Elaina F. George, MD

New Visions Commentary /
As "law of the land," ObamaCare has already fundamentally changed American health care. Despite the partisan bickering and disastrous rollout, government has successfully inserted itself between doctors and patients — controlling everything from doctors' treatment options to patient choices about ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

National Policy Analysis #656 /
Executive Summary Many supporters of ObamaCare insisted that the health insurance exchanges created by the law would result in consumers having a greater choice among insurance policies and lower prices. This study tests those claims by examining policies on the ...
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First Lady’s New Food Labels Found Unfit

Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, said the new food labels unveiled by First Lady Michelle Obama are “not going to teach nutritional literacy.” Instead, during an interview with Buck Sexton on 2/27/14 edition of “Real ...
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Doctors’ Lobbyists Are Still Lobbyists

ConservativeBlog.org /
Organized groups of physicians here in D.C. are often referred to as “association” or “academy,” such as the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics.  But a rose by any other name is still a lobbying group.  And like ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Quick Edition

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The Wall Street Journal takes stock of the impact ObamaCare will have on various sectors of the economy.  One area set to see growth are those that specialize in helping businesses navigate regulations: “At the same time, employment-benefit and IT companies, ...
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Stier Speaks Against E-Cig Strictures in City of Angels

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, testified before the Los Angeles City Council on February 24 against putting unnecessary restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes. As he waited for his chance to testify, Jeff was also ...
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If You Like Your Cancer Medication, You Can Keep Your…Er, Never Mind

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Over the weekend Stephen Blackwood told the rather harrowing story of his mother and her experience with ObamaCare.  “Carcinoid, a form of neuroendocrine cancer,” Blackwood writes in the Wall Street Journal, “is a terminal disease but generally responds well to treatment ...
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Will Media Cover the Loss of Small-Group Coverage Due to ObamaCare the Way It Covered Loss of Individual Policies?

Press Release /
Up to 20 Million People with Small-Group Coverage May Receive Cancellation Notices Employees of National Center for Public Policy Research Now Part of Those 20 Million Washington, D.C. - "Unfortunately, the cancellation of small-group plans may not get the same ...
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Our New Policy May Be Worse Too

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I have an article today in the American Spectator looking at whether small-group health insurance cancellations will get the media attention that the cancellation of individual policies received.  In it I note that my fellow National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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Alter: Obama ‘Fumbled’ Debut Of ObamaCare

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Liberal Jonathan Alter examines the lead up to the roll out of HealthCare.gov, and concludes that: …whatever happens to the ACA, the many mistakes made with the rollout have tarnished the president’s reputation for competence. Obama will always have to ...
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