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Project 21 Members Discuss National Day of Prayer

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Today, as on every first Thursday of May, the National Day of Prayer is being observed. Originally suggested by the Continental Congress is 1775, the modern National Day of Prayer was enacted in 1952. As described on the web site ...
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ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion–Reality Intercedes

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Over at the Cato Institute, Michael Cannon writes that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, “throws a huge ‘STOP’ sign in front of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.”  Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt disagree, saying that the study ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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Some interesting pieces on health care policy, in no particular order: 1. “Obamacare’s backers and critics increasingly seem to agree that the president’s health law is in for a rocky start,” writes Peter Suderman at Reason.  He reviews Ezra Klein ...
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Project 21’s Nedd: Sharpton No Longer Seems Wedded to Religion Beliefs

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Earlier this week, Jason Collins — a mediocre player in the NBA — likely garnered himself at least one more year of play and a spot in the NBA’s Hall of Fame by announcing that he is homosexual. Reverend Al ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part V

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The evidence keeps piling up that ObamaCare is going to have some very unpleasant effects for employees and employers.  And the left stays silent.  To wit: -Adjunct professors at Virginia’s community colleges are going to see their weekly hours cut ...
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Why Is IPAB M.I.A.?

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The Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known affectionately as the death panel, may be in its early death throes.  From my article at the American Spectator: If a government actuary conducts an analysis but the committee that is supposed to ...
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Congress Creates Privileged Class Under ObamaCare

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A Politico story that has apparently jumped the gun claims Congress is trying to exempt itself from ObamaCare. Ezra Klein dispels that, but then goes on to miss something, well, kind of important: …the federal government is the largest employer ...
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Government Health Care: What You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout, Part II

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As noted yesterday, the problem with the government run health-care system is that the people who are in most need of health care, the sick, seldom have the political clout necessary to change health care policy that adversely impacts them ...
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Johnson and Johnson CEO Says Medical Device Tax Should Be “Reconsidered”

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Justin Danhof of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project questions Johnson and Johnson chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky about the company’s decision to drop its support of the American Legislation Exchange Council and to comment a National Center proposal to ...
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Jeff Stier, Pfizer CEO Criticize “Academic Detailing” in Health Care

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division, asks Pfizer CEO Ian Read about his company’s position on “academic detailing.”  Academic detailing empowers academics selected by the government to guide how medical care and ...
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