Category: Health

NCPPR’s Jeff Stier Defends Consumer Choice for Energy Drinks

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On the 8/28/12 edition of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” National Center Risk Analysis Division director Jeff Stier says New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is on a “fishing expedition” that may lead to the next nanny state assault on consumer choice ...
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Regulatory Reform? Really?

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In a piece in today’s Townhall.com, I explain how the administration’s regulatory record doesn’t match its reform rhetoric. The Obama Administration would like to have us believe that his agencies have struck a reasonable approach to using its regulatory powers ...
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The Slippery Slope, in Action, Before Your Very Eyes

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Regulating food using the methods with which we regulate alcohol could reduce obesity. This is the conclusion of a RAND Corporation essay published in a Centers for Disease Control journal. Philadelphia public radio WHYY’s NewsWorks reports: What if candy stores ...
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Don’t Just Believe The Activist Do-Gooders

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In my op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Examiner, I explained why you shouldn’t take the science claims made by do-good nanny-state activists at face value. I continue with that theme in a piece in today’s Forbes with the Hoover Institution’s Dr ...
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Junk Science About Junk Food

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In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I take on the activists for distorting science to promote their nanny-state agenda. In the fight against obesity, should science matter? It depends on whom you ask. The answer may surprise you, and ...
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Spoiled Food Activists

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a key element of my piece in today’s Washington Examiner. The Foundation funds studies to advance its nanny state agenda. Their studies are often funded in partnership with government agencies (who share that ...
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Primary Care Physicians Are Leaving Medicare

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How Problems Facing Primary Care Physicians Who Accept Medicare Harm Seniors New Paper Proposes Reforms Washington, D.C. - Physicians are fleeing Medicare, and primary care physicians most of all, says a just-released paper by David Hogberg, Ph.D. for the National ...
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Nanny State Goes for the Gold

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After bringing home the gold with her incredible gymnastics performance at the London Olympics, Gabby Douglas admitted that she “splurged” and had an Egg McMuffin. It annoyed the heck out of Michelle Obama. Douglas and Obama were appearing together on ...
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Hot Dogs, Lemonade, and Fire Walks

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Winston Churchill didn’t even know about Twitter when he said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on.” Overheated and half-baked reporting about health scares is a case in point. It takes little ...
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The Next Exodus: Primary-Care Physicians and Medicare

The Next Exodus: Primary-Care Physicians and Medicare

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In late 2009 the highly respected Mayo Clinic grabbed national headlines when it announced that one of its primary-care centers was no longer accepting Medicare. Henceforth, Medicare patients visiting its family clinic in Glendale, Arizona would have to pay cash ...
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