Watch as Justin Danhof, director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project takes on and soundly defeats liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann on the issue of labeling genetically modified foods. Justin cited settled science and the obvious intent of ... READ MORE
In my blog post yesterday arguing that health care is a commodity, I noted that Rashi Fein, one of the architects of Medicare, argued that health care needed to emphasize equity over efficiency. I claimed that “a system that emphasizes ... READ MORE
Three times over the past week, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network appeared on the One America News Network’s “Rick Amato Show” to discuss the resumption in the rise of Islamic terrorism and the Obama Administration’s ... READ MORE
Rashi Fein, one of the most important people in the development of Medicare and Medicaid, passed away two weeks ago Monday. Via his obituary, I discovered that he had written the following in the New England Journal of Medicine back ... READ MORE
The state of California has fined a hobbyist winery $115,000 because some of the people working at the --- let me use this word again -- HOBBYIST winery were volunteers. National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith, who knows as much ... READ MORE
1. Did ObamaCare Increase The Number of Uninsured? The American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos has a great piece on both the recent health insurance surveys from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Census Bureau. According to Antos the CDC ... READ MORE
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to be one of the great innovations in ObamaCare that will save money for Medicare and improve quality for beneficiaries. There are two ACO programs under Medicare, the Pioneer Program and the Medicare Shared ... READ MORE
Here is one of my not-so-good predictions: [Various] factors will cause the eight million figure [of enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges] to be revised downward as the year goes on. Each time that happens in the coming months, the media ... READ MORE
Thanks goodness for our elected officials! Without them, we’d be so much more unsanitary! At a press conference yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reminded us to wash our hands. “It’s amazing how such a ... READ MORE
I followed up my study on the quality of policies on the ObamaCare exchanges with an op-ed in RARE. It began with the story of Pam Hopmann: Like millions of Americans, Pam Hopmann of Chesterfield, Missouri received a notice cancelling ... READ MORE
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