Category: Health

Free-Market Group Presents Shareholder Proposal to Merck Asking Company to Come Clean on Lobbying Goals and Expenses in Light of Company’s Support for Passage of ObamaCare

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Group Also Asks Merck CEO His View of Obama Medicare Plan that Eli Lilly CEO Says Would Lower Private Investment in New Drug Research by $15 Billion Annually Bridgewater, NJ / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Merck ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Single-Payer Edition

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If ObamaCare proves to be a complicated mess, you can bet that many on the left will be pushing for a single-payer health care system to replace it. Thus, this Odds & Ends is dedicated to the, ahem, wonders of ...
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Nice Try Democrats, But Oregonians Will Experience ‘Rate Shock’

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Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee have released a report refuting “rate shock,” the claim that the costs of premiums on the exchange will be much higher than they currently are in the individual market. The poster-boy of the ...
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Kraft and Mondelez Questioned Over Food Stamp Lobbying

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Chicago, IL / Washington, D.C. - Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research challenged the CEOs of two of America's Fortune 500 companies to explain their lobbying against limiting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) "food stamp" purchases ...
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Exposed: Obama Administration’s Selective Law Enforcement

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In a piece for the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I highlight yet another abuse of power in the Obama Administration. As questions swirl around the IRS scandal, we expose the administration’s selective law enforcement. Why is ...
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2.2% Of Cancer Patients File For Bankruptcy

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Most people would be inclined to yawn at the above headline.  Thus, in reporting on this new study in Health Affairs, journalists wrote headlines such as “Cancer patients more than twice as likely to go bankrupt, study shows,” and “Cancer ...
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Who Says Conservatives Can’t Solve Public Health Problems?

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Just because conservatives think the government ought to stay out of our kitchens, doesn’t mean we don’t have positive ways to address obesity. We do. In an op-ed in Tuesday’s Washington Examiner, Dr. Henry I. Miller joins me in contrasting ...
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The Health Care You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition

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A previous blog post pointed out that one of the drawbacks of any government-run health-care system is that the care you get will depend in part on how much political power you have.  This is particularly bad news for those ...
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About That ‘Shorter’ ObamaCare Application

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Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal showing that the supposed reducition in the size of the form for applying for insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges is not quite what it seems: During ...
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Free-Market Group Proposes Plan for Repeal of Major ObamaCare Tax Provision to Zimmer Holdings CEO

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ObamaCare Tax Places 43,000 Medical Device Industry Jobs in Jeopardy; Zimmer Forced to Make Staffing Cuts Zimmer CEO Stands with National Center for Public Policy Research in Seeking Full Repeal of the Medical Device Tax Indianapolis, IN / Washington, D.C ...
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