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If ObamaCare Saves Lives, It Does So Very Inefficiently

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Referring to a recent study about RomneyCare in Massachusetts that finds a link between insurance status and mortality, The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn says “it makes Obamacare look good.”  In fact, it shows that ObamaCare is a grossly inefficient way ...
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Paying Respects to President Reagan on the Tenth Anniversary of his Death

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This is a re-post of a post I made on this blog on June 9, 2004. Our family paid its respects to President Reagan today. It's not very easy for four-year-old children to understand that a giant has left us, ...
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More Black Conservatives Speak on VA Scandal

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As the scandal over the quality of veterans’ health care provided by the government continues to simmer, more members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network who have served their country are speaking out about the bureaucratic abuses ...
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Policies On Vermont Exchange Could Have Substantial Rate Hikes

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Yesterday came news that policies on the Vermont ObamaCare exchange would likely rise, although it wasn’t reported by how much. Today the Vermont Digger finds that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is asking to raise its premiums by an ...
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How to Submit an Official Comment to the EPA about the Obama Administration’s New Climate Regulations

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No, trading terrorists for a hostage isn't all that's happened in Washington lately. This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency announced draconian new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions in a costly-yet-futile attempt to control planetary temperature. In "honor" of the ridiculous ...
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Celebrity-Studded Anti-Obesity Film Is Pure Propaganda

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In a piece featured on Politix today, I explain what’s going on behind the scenes in Katie Couric and Laurie David’s big-government film, “Fed Up.” If you don’t watch to watch the film or even read the reviews, you just ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Good News Edition

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Let’s start this Monday with good news on the health care front.  (Back to your regularly scheduled commentary on ObamaCare exchanges and Veterans Affairs tomorrow.) 1. Reference Pricing.  A few years ago the health care plan that services CalPERS workers ...
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Will Obama Call Keontai? Was the Call to Sandra Just a Fluke?

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Remember when Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor President Obama supported when the professor got in a dispute with Cambridge, Massachusetts police? Remember Sandra Fluke, the law student who championed ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate, got criticized by conservatives and then was ...
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OIG Investigation Into Veterans Affairs Scandal Doesn’t Go Far Enough

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The Office of Inspector General’s interim report on the Veterans Affairs scandal is too limited in scope.  The only health consequence of waiting lists at the VA that the investigators are focusing on is mortality.  But patients who must wait ...
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National Center’s Hogberg Suggests Elites Might Benefit Most from ObamaCare

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Even though ObamaCare is still in relative infancy, it already seems to be at a tipping point.  A time can be seen where government subsidies cannot sustain demands for coverage.  Furthermore, the “truly sick… don’t have much in the way ...
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