Category: Health

What is the Proper Role of the U.S. Surgeon General?

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The job of the U.S. Surgeon General has always been a challenging one to describe. No, he or she doesn’t have to be a general surgeon, or a surgeon of any kind, for that matter. Rather, the surgeon general traditionally ...
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Tobacco Regulation: Can the European Union Learn From the United States FDA?

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In a piece for The Guardian, I suggest that the European Union (EU) should look to the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a model for tobacco regulation. No, that doesn’t mean I think the FDA is doing a ...
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Zadroga Bill’s Federal Dollars Trump Science for NY Politicians

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For once, the feds have made a policy decision based on sound science … and, of course, Congress is standing in their way. My new piece over at Reason.com examines why three New York politicians, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D), Jerrod Nadler (D), ...
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Congress Must End Power Grab by Unaccountable Bureaucrats

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There is a cancer spreading through the American body politic that, if not treated urgently and thoroughly, will prove terminal to the enterprise our Founding Fathers launched over two centuries ago. The U.S. Constitution is nothing if not an effort ...
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Upholding Constitutionality of Individual Mandate Would Set a Dangerous Precedent

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Last week, the Eleventh Circuit Court ruled that the "individual mandate" prescribed in President Obama's signature piece of health care legislation—"ObamaCare"—requiring virtually every U.S. resident to purchase federally-approved private health insurance is unconstitutional. The Eleventh Circuit's bristling decision is sure ...
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How the Media is Dangerously Inflating the Voices of Patient Activists

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My piece on the dangers of unbalanced health reporting was published at Townhall.com on Wednesday. In describing the dangerously powerful megaphone this coverage gives to patient activists, I reference the emotion-based reporting as it was outlined by CardioBrief’s Larry Husten in Forbes and ...
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Crony Capitalism Strikes the Salmon Industry

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The piece I co-authored with Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Henry Miller has appeared on The Hill’s Congress blog. The article lambastes lawmakers from both parties, including infamous porker Rep. Don Young (R-AK), for trying to reverse a case of the Food and ...
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Deneen Borelli on Taxes for Teen Smoking Survey and Free Contraceptive Services

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On a 7/24/11 panel discussion broadcast during “America’s News Headquarters” on the Fox News Channel, Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli calls a new federal study regarding teenagers’ perceptions and attitudes about smoking a “waste of tax dollars” and says the ...
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The CIA’s Fake Vaccination Fumble

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My new Daily Caller piece addresses reports that the CIA created a fake vaccination program as part of its operation to find Osama bin Laden. Like most every other American, I’m thrilled that bin Laden was finally found. This otherwise ...
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ObamaCare’s Taxpayer-Funded Social Engineering

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Today, my article with Dr. Henry Miller on ObamaCare’s “Community Transformation Grants” debuts in Defining Ideas, a journal of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The article exposes the grants’ Nanny State implications by examining a similar program already being implemented by the Centers for ...
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