Category: Health

Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. Having previously given grief to PapaJohn’s and Five Guys for complaining about how ObamaCare regulations will hurt business and jobs, the Huffington Post has now reported what only the fiercest ObamaCare partisans won’t admit:  ObamaCare is going to reduce ...
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Eli Lilly CEO Dr. John Lechleiter Says Obama Administration “Dual-Eligibles” Rebate Plan Would Lead to “Catastrophic Consequences” for Innovation

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Industry Could Face More than $100 Billion in Extra Costs Under President's Plan, Lechleiter Says, in Response to Questioning from National Center for Public Policy Research Patients with Private Insurance Could Also Face "Stealth Medicare Tax" if Obama Plan Enacted, ...
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ObamaCare Developments Could Have Major Impact on Leading Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Executive Tells National Center for Public Policy Research that the Company is Following IPAB Creation "Very Closely" Obama Administration "Dual-Eligibles" Rebate Plan, if Imposed, Could Have "Significant Impact" During "Pivot Year" for Bristol-Myers Squibb Plainsboro, NJ / Washington, ...
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IPAB’s Non-Existence Is A Problem Too

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Over at the Washington Post, Sarah Kliff notes that the Independent Payment Advisory Board is out of the woods for now: “IPAB would only come into effect when Medicare’s per-enrollee spending grew faster than the average of overall price growth…a few ...
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Is ObamaCare ‘Government-Run’ Health Care? Of Course Not…

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In one of my recent blog posts I claimed that the problem with a “government run health-care system is that the people who are in most need of health care, the sick, seldom have the political clout necessary to change ...
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Environmental Activist Scare Debunked

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In a piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I take on the Environmental Working Group for scaring the public about the safety of fruits and vegetables. We also take on the scare-hungry media for reporting on the ...
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ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion–Reality Intercedes

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Over at the Cato Institute, Michael Cannon writes that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, “throws a huge ‘STOP’ sign in front of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.”  Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt disagree, saying that the study ...
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Pepsi CEO Responds to Questions About Company’s Food Stamp Lobbying

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Free-Market Group Asks Pepsi to Explain Why Taxpayers Should be Forced to Subsidize Soda Purchases Pepsi CEO Thanks National Center for Working on the "Right Issue," But Says PepsiCo Just Differs in Approach and Solution New Bern, NC / Washington, ...
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Eating Locally and Fresh: Is It Possible on a Budget? by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Every month, there sees to be a new ad campaign or initiative attempting to influence what we eat, purchase, or otherwise consume. My favorite food cop is Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City. He has been temporarily thwarted in ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part V

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The evidence keeps piling up that ObamaCare is going to have some very unpleasant effects for employees and employers.  And the left stays silent.  To wit: -Adjunct professors at Virginia’s community colleges are going to see their weekly hours cut ...
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