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ObamaCare Exchanges Will Increase Lack of Insurance Among The Young and Healthy

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My recently released study on the incentives  “young invincibles” will face on the ObamaCare exchanges received considerable criticism from the left.  Interestingly, what most of it had in common was that it could have doubled as a description of present-day ...
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Your Government, at Work, Hurting Kids

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The Food and Drug and Administration considers sunscreen to be an "over-the-counter medication" and laws in many states prohibit public school students from taking over-the-counter medications at school unless their parents, and sometimes doctors, fulfill some bureaucratic requirements in advance ...
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More Silliness from the Government Nannies

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In the United States, it is illegal to sell eggs without first washing them. In Britain, it is illegal to sell eggs that have been washed. Both laws are in place to protect consumer health. And I'm sure they're both ...
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Project 21’s Cooper Argues Race on “The O’Reilly Factor”

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While promoting her new movie, billionaire Oprah Winfrey made the startling comparison of the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till and the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, saying “in my mind, same thing.”  She has also claimed that racism prevented her from ...
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How We Pay For Health Care More Important Than How Much We Pay

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I got into a Twitter debate the other day with The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn over whether the problems in Britain’s health care system are due to the nature of its single-payer system or the amount the government spends on ...
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Orszag and Medicare: Grand Claims, Scant Evidence

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Peter Orszag is at it again, defending the death panel Independent Payment Advisory Board against an attack by, of all people, Howard Dean.  However, what’s most interesting about the article is Orszag’s contention about the causes of the recent slowdown, ...
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Project 21’s Derryck Green Discusses “Race Fatigue” on WMAL-DC

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In an August 10 interview on WMAL, the top talk radio station in the nation’s capital, Project 21 member Derryck Green took on those who would use Trayvon Martin and the rest of black America to advance a political cause ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: The Ugly, The Bad, and The Good

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Okay, having given Clint Eastwood a bit of a smack with the last blog post, let’s give him some due with this one and use his contribution to categories to look at some the recent goings on in health care ...
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There Have Been Some Great SuperBowl Commercials…

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The End Of Free Checking? Thank Dick Durbin

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This morning on my drive in to work I was listening to WTOP, 103.5 FM, when a story about the possible end of debit cards came up.  The hosts interviewed a reporter from the Wall Street Journal who said that ...
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