Category: Health

Lack of Transparency Trumps Good Policy in Obama Administration

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In an op-ed in today’s Forbes.com, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I explain how a little-known agency originally funded with stimulus dollars could harm your health, in part, because of its lack of transparency. Fortunately, a House appropriations committee has ...
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16 Seconds To Understanding the HHS Birth Control Mandate

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Want to understand what the HHS birth control mandate controversy is all about, but without investing a lot of time? Or want find a way to explain the HHS birth control mandate to someone else, quick? This video explains the ...
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Nation’s Capital May Cap Drink Sales

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Jumbo Liquor is on H Street NE.  Jumbo Slice Pizza is in Adams Morgan.  Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe serves jumbo lump crabcake in one of its “specialty” pasta dishes. Jumbo sodas, however, may become a thing of the past in ...
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National Center’s Stier Sacks Sinister Soda Strategy

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Responding to a new video criticizing soda sales, the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Jeff Stier says the new Center for Science in the Public Interest crusade goes too far in suggesting “what is excessive” and that the pro-regulation ...
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WebMD: Is the Obama Administration Making Obesity Worse?

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As WebMD reports, The Obama Administration’s implementation of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is having unintended consequences. “There’s no question that schools should encourage healthy eating,” says Jeff Stier. He is a senior fellow at the National Center ...
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The Decline and Fall of Medicare, by Elaina F. George, MD

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For those believing Medicare is sacred and needs to be saved, know there are disturbing truths conveniently swept under the rug in the name of politics. Medicare now exists in name only. Medicare has morphed into a bloated and virtually ...
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Chicago Teachers Should Have a Beef about LFTB Policy, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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When Chicago schoolteachers recently went on strike, the only city-run schools open were those set up to serve meals to needy students. While striking Windy City teachers screamed about pay and evaluation standards, food was a problem apparently being ignored ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Backs New York Parents Against Bloomberg’s Plan B Benefit

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There are some silly parents in New York City who actually think they should have the power to make decisions regarding their own minor children.  Don’t they know that it’s the job of the mayor to take care of them? ...
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Student Strike Fights Federal Lunchroom Law

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While the media fixated on the teachers’ strike in Chicago, there was little notice of a student uprising just across the border in Wisconsin.  Their beef?  A lack of beef in their lunches, among other things — thanks in part ...
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Tomorrow’s ObamaCare Crisis Today — in Massachusetts

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Want to see the future of ObamaCare?  It’s unfolding on a smaller — but predictable — scale in Massachusetts. Long-touted as an example of how government-mandated health care coverage can succeed, the Massachusetts plan — enacted just six years ago — ...
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