Paid Parental Leave Shouldn’t Be Mandatory

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Should paid parental leave be mandatory in the United States?  Horace Cooper with the National Center for Public Policy Research and Elizabeth Peters with the Urban Institute discussed this issue on Al Jazeera America’s “Inside Story with Ray Suarez” on ...
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Donald Trump, the Clintons and Marijuana

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How are Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton and marijuana linked to each other? They were all topics of discussion June 28 on WHUT’s “New View with Ed Gordon,” and topics covered with zeal by our own adjunct fellow Horace ...
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Medicare’s Innovation Center Will Be Captured by Big Medical Providers

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The Commonwealth Fund is publishing a series of papers this month under the heading “Medicare at 50 Years.”  Yesterday the Fund released a paper under this series entitled “Medicare Payment Reform: Aligning Incentives for Better Care.”  In it, the authors ...
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New Book, “Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians,” To Be Released

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Tells Intimate Stories of People Who Suffer Because of Medicare's Policies Why Senator Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-All" Won't Work Washington, D.C. - Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow and health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research, is ...
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Why Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-All” Won’t Work

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Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) recently said, “…we have to move toward a Medicare for all, single-payer system.” For years now “Medicare-for-All” has been the rallying cry for single-payer advocates.  It is, if nothing else, shrewd marketing.  Medicare is very popular ...
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Supreme Court’s Blocking of EPA’s Mercury Emissions Rule a “Setback for the Agency’s Institutional Arrogance,” Environmental Scholar Says

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Washington, D.C. - With its 5-4 decision setting aside one of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) most far-reaching regulations targeting coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court "has reminded EPA that it, too, must abide by the law," said Bonner ...
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Medicare’s Victims: Available One Week from Today

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My book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, will be available next Monday, July 6.  You can pre-order now at Amazon.com.  Both paperback and Kindle versions are available. In the coming ...
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How Will the Pope’s Position Affect the Poor and the Presidential Election?

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How will Pope Francis’s climate change encyclical impact the world’s poorest citizens? And will it affect the upcoming presidential election? Bonner Cohen of the National Center for Public Policy Research and Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution had a thoughtful ...
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Horace Cooper Rumbles with Thom Hartmann on Trade, Trans Fats, Climate Change and Women’s Health Funding

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On June 17, Horace Cooper held back no punches as part of “The Big Picture Rumble” on the RT Network. Host Thom Hartmann moderated the panel that also included Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com and TJ Helmstetter of the Progressive Change ...
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Justice Scalia May Be Snarky, But He’s Also Quite Correct

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The Washington Post's Wonkblog staff, in an article published at 10:33 AM today, says Associate Justice Antonin Scalia "may have already won for snarkiness" in his dissent in the Obamacare case handed down today. It is amusing that the Post ...
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