Category: Health

ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part III

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As noted in two previous blog posts, much of the political left has gone silent as the evidence has piled up that businesses and even some universities are going to have to cut back on workers hours due to ObamaCare ...
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ObamaCare’s “Slippery Slope” Could Threaten Job Security of Unfit

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On the 3/21/13 edition of CNBC’s “Street Signs,” Jeff Stier — the director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division — talks about a collision of health and privacy issues in the workplace that have resulted since the introduction of ...
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Dangers of Nanny State are to More than Just Our Liberties

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That's the conclusion of the Washington Examiner in a story by Michal Conger this afternoon about a CPAC panel on the nanny state sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum and featuring, among others, the National Center's own Jeff Stier. The ...
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Silly Small Businesses! Health Insurance Decisions Are For The Anointed

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It’s not clear if Wendell Potter was a man of the left before he jumped ship from an insurance company to become one of ObamaCare’s biggest apologists.  If not, he’s certainly absorbed many of the left’s mannerisms since then. At ...
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Court Strikes Down New York’s “Big Gulp” Ban; Good Riddance, Say Policy Experts

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New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - Yesterday a New York State judge issued an injunction against New York Mayor Bloomberg's ban on the sale of large sugary drinks at New York City restaurants and other locations. In a stinging ...
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Electronic Health Records Heading For Iceberg. HHS Says ‘Full Steam Ahead!’

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Last week the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced its “2013 agenda to bring down costs and improve quality of care through implementation of health information technology.”  That included “setting the goal of 50 percent of physician offices using ...
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New York-Based Health Risk Expert Applauds Rebuke of Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban

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New York, NY - Jeff Stier, director of the Risk Analysis Division at the National Center for Public Policy Research, and a New York City resident, issued the following statement regarding the New York Supreme Court tossing out Mayor Michael ...
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Congress Should Repeal Limits On New Doctor-Owned Hospitals

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My op-ed on physician-owned hospitals and Obamacare appeared in the Washington Examiner today: Congress has already repealed some undesirable parts of Obamacare, such as its meddlesome tax form requirements for small businesses (the “1099 rule”) and the unsustainable long-term care ...
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Social Security’s COLA Conundrum, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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In a perfect world, Social Security would be a privatized system in which individuals manage their own retirement accounts and adjust the disbursement of their savings and investments — including factoring for inflation — themselves. But it isn't. As it ...
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Reporter Examines Hospitals, Falls In Love With Government-Run Health Care

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Journalist Steven Brill has penned a 20,000-plus word article for TIME magazine examining the way hospitals charge for services.  The best way to describe the article is, “It’s well worth the time to read it until he starts talking about ...
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