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Three ObamaCare Co-Ops Down, 20 To Go

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Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges.  There are 23 such Co-Ops. Or, rather, there were.  In January, the state insurance regulator of Iowa decided to ...
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Savings of ObamaCare’s ACOs Declined 28 Percent!

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One of the, ahem, “reforms” ObamaCare introduced to Medicare was Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).  ACOs were supposed to save money for taxpayers and improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.  (To understand what an ACO is, go here.) In ...
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A Perspective on Harris County Deputy’s Death by a Project 21 Member Who Served with Him

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Last Friday, Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth was essentially executed as he fueled his patrol car in a Houston suburb.  The alleged shooter, who walked up and shot the unsuspecting deputy while he was standing and then fired several more ...
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Are Amputees Medicare’s Next Victims?

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Let me start this blog post with a thank you to Brad Knollenberg and AccessRX America for doing an interview with me about my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physician ...
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Rubio’s Health Care Plan: Economics vs. Politics

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It is often the case that good economics makes bad politics, and vice-versa.  That is evident in the part of Senator Marco Rubio’s health care plan that deals with the employer-based tax exclusion for health insurance. Rubio’s plan proposes a refundable tax ...
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In Memoriam: Whitney Ball

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We at the National Center for Public Policy Research were saddened to learn today of the death of Whitney Ball, the founder and CEO of DonorsTrust and an indefatigable fighter for liberty and limited government. Unlike many, we cannot claim ...
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That’s Okay. New Mexico’s ObamaCare Exchange Will Be Just Fine with Fewer Insurers

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In early June, Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum stated, “don’t pay too much attention to scare stories about gigantic increases in Obamacare premiums next year.”  One reason, he said was that a “few months from now, the real rate increases—the ...
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Danhof’s Criticism of Apple’s Tim Cook Highlighted by Rush Limbaugh and Fox Business Network

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Is Tim Cook failing as the leader of Apple? He certainly seems hypocritical about gay rights when he calls Indiana discriminatory while doing business with Iran. Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise Project, told host Neil Cavuto on the ...
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A Word About the Economy: “Stagnant”

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Another month has come and gone with not a lot of good economic news for Americans. Obama and his supporters might cheer at official unemployment figures that are slowly edging toward five percent like they do for other alleged economic ...
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ObamaCare Is a Very Inefficient Way to Deliver Health Care

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In late July, the political left celebrated a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that purported to show that people are getting better care under ObamaCare.  Johnathan Cohn claimed that the study is “one more reason ...
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