Category: Health

National Center Senior Fellow to Testify Before Oklahoma Legislature — Sort Of

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National Center Risk Analysis Division head Jeff Stier will testify Wednesday before a joint study committee of the Oklahoma State Senate and Oklahoma House of Representatives on e-cigarettes and tobacco harm reduction methods. Sort of. Jeff set off at 9:40 ...
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Will ObamaCare’s Disasters & Benghazi Affect Obama’s Popularity in 2014? A Right-Left Radio Debate on the Alan Nathan Show

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Will ObamaCare's disastrous rollout affect Obama's popularity in 2014? How about the Benghazi coverup? Can Obama help his poll numbers by discussing income inequality? For those with an interest, here is an audio recording of my latest weekly debate with ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges Not Doing Much To Reduce The Uninsured

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A new article from the Wall Street Journal takes stock of various surveys and finds that most of the people who signed up through the ObamaCare exchanges were not previously uninsured: -Only 11% of consumers who bought new coverage under ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. ObamaCare has increased Medicaid coverage by 3.9 million—NOT SO FAST!  If one examines closely the recent ObamaCare exchange enrollment report, you’ll notice that about 27% of the enrollment in Medicaid is in states that did not expand Medicaid under ...
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The Administration is Holding Back Data About the ObamaCare Exchanges the Public Deserves to See, Says National Center for Public Policy Research

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H.R. 3362, to Be Voted on Thursday, Would Require the Administration to Release More Data, Faster "Much of the data probably reflects poorly on the ObamaCare exchanges. It's time for President Obama to level with the American public and release ...
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House Votes To Force Obama Admin. To Release Exchange Data

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Around noon today the House of Representatives approved H.R. 3362, the “Exchange Information Disclosure Act,” a bill authored by Representative Lee Terry (R-NE).  The vote was 259 to 154 with 33 Democrats joining 226 Republicans to vote aye. As I explore ...
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Liberal Groups, Democratic Members of Congress and Organic Food Industry Present President Obama with Demands for New Food Industry Labeling Regulations

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New Regulations, If Adopted, Would Raise Prices on Healthy Food, Think-Tank Says "Mandatory labeling of GM foods fails every justification for requiring them: scientific, economic, legal, and most of all, common sense," says risk expert Jeff Stier. "[This is] for ...
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Jeff Stier on Genetically-Modified Labeling

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division, chats with talk radio host and rancher Trent Loos about the politics of genetically-modified foods. New legislation has been proposed in Congress to label such foods ...
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Has ObamaCare Reduced Medicare Spending? Part 1

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, claimed  that the current slowdown in national health care spending “is thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act….Many factors, including ...
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Has ObamaCare Reduced Medicare Spending? Part 2

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Last Friday I examined Jason Furman’s claim that Obamacare has reduced Medicare spending since 2010.  Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, attributed the slower Medicare growth rate to “innovations” contained in Obamacare like penalizing hospitals for ...
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