One other matter I didn’t get a chance to address during my testimony at the recent Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging hearing was the issue of why Taiwan, a single-payer health care system, does not use wait times to ... READ MORE
The New York Post reported over the weekend that Mayor de Blasio’s new Department of Sanitation commissioner, Kathryn Garcia, has big plans for New Yorkers like myself and our garbage. [Garcia] said she’d expand Mayor Bloomberg’s composting program just after ... READ MORE
Matt Clark, writing for the Long Island Newsday newspaper, reports that Nassau County, NY has 6,100 dead people on its voter rolls. 270 of these dead voters, the paper says, are still lively when it comes to voting. One of ... READ MORE
Speaking on the topic of IRS reform, Project 21 member Stacy Swimp said that a flat tax is “an idea we need to… discuss.” Sidestepping the obvious “gotcha” question posed by the host about how the government can function should ... READ MORE
There were a number of issues I wanted to address during the Senate hearing at which I testified Tuesday, but for which time did not permit. One was the claim that 45,000 Americans die each year because they lack health ... READ MORE
Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, said a blogger’s call for banning kids under the age of 12 from using electronic devices is “ignoring balance” and will “do more harm by stifling innovation.” The nanny state ... READ MORE
I’ll be testifying today in from the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health And Aging. The title of the hearing is Access and Cost: “What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries.” Although, based on the letter ... READ MORE
Dr. David Hogberg of the National Center for Public Policy Research testifies about foreign problems associated with government-run health care and the political problems that face patients under those systems. This testimony was presented before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on ... READ MORE
Discussion threats of a possible boycott of Florida businesses as a means of forcing the repeal of the Sunshine State’s “stand your ground” law, Project 21 member Shelby Emmett warned that protestors need to be “careful” for both legal and ... READ MORE
Two major takeaways from today’s exchange enrollment report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. First, the number of “young invincibles,” those ages 18-34, didn’t increase as part of the overall risk pool. It was 25 percent at the end ... READ MORE
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