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Book: Medicare Harms Patients And Impairs Doctors

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Some housekeeping chores I didn’t get to last week.  First, thanks to Richard Eisenberg, who did an interview with me about Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, that appeared at both ...
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Why ‘Medicare-for-All’ Is A Terrible Idea

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Yesterday I had another article at The Federalist examining Robert Reich’s push for single-payer health care, a.k.a. “Medicare-for-All.”  This was one of the more enjoyable pieces I’ve written in a while, so here is an excerpt: And what is Reich’s ...
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Medicare’s Unhappy 50th Anniversary

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law.  The Daily Caller published my article today explaining why that is nothing to celebrate.  Here is an excerpt: Medicare has a dark underbelly that is seldom given ...
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The Silliest Argument in Favor of Medicare-For-All

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Easily the most absurd claim advanced by the Medicare-for-All (i.e. single-payer) crowd is that Medicare is more efficient than private sector health insurance because it has lower administrative costs. There are numerous problems with that argument, not the least of ...
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Medicare’s Victims: What Readers Are Saying

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My new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, received its first review on Amazon: I am a patient of Dr. Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, and I thoroughly enjoyed the section about her and her ...
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ObamaCare + Illegal Immigration + California = Insanity

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I’m not really sure where to start with this, so let’s just start with the basics.  From the San Jose Mercury News: A first-in-the-nation bill aimed at expanding health care for illegal immigrants sailed through the Senate on Tuesday even ...
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Justin Danhof Criticizes Apple CEO Tim Cook on Fox Business Network

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On yesterday’s episode of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast,” Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research criticized Tim Cook’s handling of Apple. Danhof, the Director of the Center’s Free Enterprise Project, was especially critical of Cook’s ...
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Horace Cooper Discusses the Bill Cosby Rape Allegations with Dr. Drew

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Did U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno have the right to release sealed documents regarding past allegations about Bill Cosby? Is a suspect’s right to privacy dependent upon how many accusers he has, or upon how famous he is? On ...
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Medicare Pits Doctors against Patients

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A quick note:  Tomorrow I’ll be presenting my book, Medicare’s Victims, at the Heritage Foundation at Noon.  Details here. Today the Washington Examiner has run my article, “Medicare’s midlife crisis: Catastrophic finances pit doctors against patients.”  In it I examine ...
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Dissecting Medicare

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Thanks to PJTV, which has aired the first television interview about my new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. It’s part of a series called “Keeping Your Gold In Your ...
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