Category: Health

And The Quality Of Your Doctor May Get Worse Too

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Via American Interest, I came across this article in the New York Times about a health care trend that probably isn’t a welcome one: American physicians, worried about changes in the health care market, are streaming into salaried jobs with ...
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Nanny State Group Questions Michelle Kwan’s Dual Roles as Both Member of the President’s Council on Fitness and Coca-Cola Ambassador

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Policy Group Calls Attack on Kwan's Role "Absurd," Says Food Police Groups Undermine Fight Against Obesity by Being Too Absolutist Washington, D.C. - Today the National Center for Public Policy Research put out a call for food police groups to ...
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Liberals Have Accepted that ObamaCare Will Increase the Deficit; The CBO Shows Economic Consequences of ObamaCare Exceed its Budget Savings

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Liberals Celebrating ObamaCare's Reduction of Work Hours Must Accept that Reduced Hours Will Result in Huge Tax Losses Washington, D.C. - "There is no way around it for the political left. If they celebrate that ObamaCare induces employees to work ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Deluxe Edition

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1. Trial Lawyers Bonanza!  Economist and president of the National Center for Policy Analysis John Goodman notes the following about the new regulations on ObamaCare’s employer mandate: The new delay in the employer mandates only apply to employers who don’t ...
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Revenue-Hungry Rhode Island Seeks 80% Tax on Lifesaving E-Cigarettes

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Tobacco-Free E-Cigarettes Help Tobacco Smokers Quit; Taxing Them Like Tobacco Cigarettes Would Harm Smoking Cessation Efforts As Rhode Island Goes, So Goes the Nation? Washington, D.C. - National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier is submitting testimony today to ...
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Listen: National Center’s Almasi Shatters Chuck Schumer, Food Babe Claims Over Pennsylvania Airwaves

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After the Subway sandwich chain buckled to the criticism of the “Food Babe” blogger and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rushed to the cameras to demand a ban on the harmless food additive azodicarbonamide, I had the honor of appearing on ...
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Young People And That First Premium: Why The ObamaCare Risk Pool Is Worse Than You Think

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With the the Dept. of Health and Human Services set to release the next enrollment report on the ObamaCare exchanges this afternoon, I can’t help but wonder if this will be the report in which we finally get some data on ...
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Hatch-Burr-Coburn Still A Cadillac Tax Plan

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About two weeks ago I criticized the Hatch-Coburn-Burr health care plan for the way it treated the tax exclusion for employer-based health insurance: The Hatch-Burr-Coburn…“caps the tax exclusion for employee’s health coverage at 65 percent of an average plan’s costs” (italics ...
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Obama Flouts The Rule Of Law… Again

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It’s getting to be a sad joke.  Any provision of ObamaCare that the Administration finds politically inconvenient is suspended regardless of whether the president has the authority to do so.  The latest is the decision to suspend the employer mandate in 2015 ...
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Senator Charles Schumer Calls for Ban on Chemical Used in Bread that Obama’s FDA Says is Safe as Used

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Reason: It's Also Used in Yoga Mats Washington, DC - The following is the response of Jeff Stier, director of the National Center's Risk Analysis Division, to the call of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for a ban on azodicarbonamide after ...
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