Rashi Fein, one of the most important people in the development of Medicare and Medicaid, passed away two weeks ago Monday. Via his obituary, I discovered that he had written the following in the New England Journal of Medicine back ...
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The state of California has fined a hobbyist winery $115,000 because some of the people working at the --- let me use this word again -- HOBBYIST winery were volunteers. National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith, who knows as much ...
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1. Did ObamaCare Increase The Number of Uninsured?  The American Enterprise Institute’s Joe Antos has a great piece on both the recent health insurance surveys from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Census Bureau.  According to Antos the CDC ...
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Famous Food Brand Urged to Promote Benefits and Promises of GMOs National Center Marks Third Major Victory Against Anti-GMO Movement in 2014 Washington, D.C. / Minneapolis, MN - At today's annual meeting of General Mills shareholders, the company's investors heeded ...
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to be one of the great innovations in ObamaCare that will save money for Medicare and improve quality for beneficiaries.  There are two ACO programs under Medicare, the Pioneer Program and the Medicare Shared ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Warns Food-Giant Investors of Proposal's High Costs, Scare Tactics and Pseudoscience Food Companies Urged to Stand Up for the Promise of GMOs Washington, D.C. / Minneapolis, MN - The National Center for Public Policy ...
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Washington, D.C. - Surges in immigration have harmed black workers throughout U.S. history. Evidence shows that eras of high black employment and economic mobility directly correspond with periods of reduced immigration. Should President Obama legalize many or all of the ...
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Here is one of my not-so-good predictions: [Various] factors will cause the eight million figure [of enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges] to be revised downward as the year goes on. Each time that happens in the coming months, the media ...
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Thanks goodness for our elected officials!  Without them, we’d be so much more unsanitary! At a press conference yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reminded us to wash our hands. “It’s amazing how such a ...
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I followed up my study on the quality of policies on the ObamaCare exchanges with an op-ed in RARE.  It began with the story of Pam Hopmann: Like millions of Americans, Pam Hopmann of Chesterfield, Missouri received a notice cancelling ...
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