Category: Health

Food Deserts: Not What They’re Cracked Up to Be on MSNBC

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This evening on MSNBC, Chris Matthews and Clarence Page were moaning about "food deserts," which is a liberal nickname for places in the United States that don't have grocery stores, or have grocery stores that don't sell many or any ...
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KOA’s Mike Rosen Interviews David Hogberg About National Center’s Latest ObamaCare Paper

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Mike Rosen, easily one of the most knowledgeable interviewers in all of talk radio, interviewed David Hogberg, PhD, author of the National Center's paper, "Why The 'Young Invincibles' Won't Participate in the ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters" on August ...
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Did Their Spouses Like Their Insurance?

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If you’ve been paying any attention to health care news over the last 24 hours, you are aware that both the United Parcel Service and the University of Virginia will, in some cases, not be providing health insurance to the spouses of their ...
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Fox’s Stuart Varney on National Center’s Newest ObamaCare Paper

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The Fox Business Channel's Stuart Varney weighed in yesterday on the National Center's newest ObamaCare paper, "Why The "Young Invincibles" Won't Participate In The ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters," by David Hogberg, Ph.D ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges Will Increase Lack of Insurance Among The Young and Healthy

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My recently released study on the incentives  “young invincibles” will face on the ObamaCare exchanges received considerable criticism from the left.  Interestingly, what most of it had in common was that it could have doubled as a description of present-day ...
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Your Government, at Work, Hurting Kids

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The Food and Drug and Administration considers sunscreen to be an "over-the-counter medication" and laws in many states prohibit public school students from taking over-the-counter medications at school unless their parents, and sometimes doctors, fulfill some bureaucratic requirements in advance ...
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More Silliness from the Government Nannies

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In the United States, it is illegal to sell eggs without first washing them. In Britain, it is illegal to sell eggs that have been washed. Both laws are in place to protect consumer health. And I'm sure they're both ...
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Over 3.7 Million Young Adults Will Be at Least $500 Better Off if They Avoid the ObamaCare Exchanges

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National Center Study Shows Millions Aged 18-34 Will Have Big Financial Incentive to Pay the Individual Mandate Penalty Instead of Buying Insurance in 2014With Minimal Participation By Young and Healthy, Exchanges Run Big Risk of a 'Death Spiral,' with Severe ...
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Investor’s Business Daily Touts National Center Study on ObamaCare and “Young Invincibles”

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3.7 Million "Young Invincibles" Financially Better Off Without ObamaCare in 2014 Obamacare is Likely to Come Up Short of the 2.7 Million Young People Needed to Make the Exchanges Function Washington, D.C. - Investor's Business Daily published an article today ...
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How We Pay For Health Care More Important Than How Much We Pay

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I got into a Twitter debate the other day with The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn over whether the problems in Britain’s health care system are due to the nature of its single-payer system or the amount the government spends on ...
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