Is Food Political? Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio and Left-Wing Interest Groups are Making It So with “Sham Consensus” Food Policy Scorecard
Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and Director of its Risk Analysis Division, has issued a statement in response to the new "National Food Policy Scorecard" announced this week by the ...
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Obamacare Exchanges Won’t Hit Enrollment Targets
The Dept. of Health and Human Services released its latest enrollment report for the Obamacare exchanges. According to the report, 364,682 selected a plan among all the exchanges. 137,204 selected plans in the federal exchanges and 227,478 selected plans on ...
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Duped and Disenfranchised by ObamaCare
It’s been another bad week for President Obama’s signature policy initiative and the payback is intense. Over the weekend, Ezekiel Emanuel — one of the key players in the creation of ObamaCare — candidly said that one of the real ...
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Less is More for Both Smoking and Regulation
As the EU considers a back-door ban on snus, the least harmful form of tobacco, a large study from Israel suggests that smokers who reduce their overall consumption of cigarettes do themselves some good. This is good news for those looking ...
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When Somebody Says It’s Not About The Money…
With apologies to H.L. Mencken, when Obamacare supporters say it ain’t about the cha-ching or ba-bling, it’s about the cha-ching and ba-bling. That is the the lens through which one should view the video “Forget About the Price Tag,” the winner ...
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The Nanny State Can Get You Killed; New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Washington, D.C. - On the same day that the Los Angeles City Council moved to regulate e-cigarettes, the National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Stier testified at a New York City Council Health Committee hearing on a similar measure ...
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“About Those Jobs Numbers” — November
Like Wonderland, life in the Obama economic recovery is getting curiouser and curiouser. Today’s federal jobless numbers indicated a change for the better, with the unemployment rate dropping three-tenths of a percentage point to 7.0 percent in November. Yet there ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends
MyCancellation Town Hall. The Independent Women’s Voice is kicking off a town-hall tour of its “My Cancellation” project this Saturday: My Cancellation town-hall tour will begin on Saturday, December 7th at 12:30pm at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The panel ...
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Higher Costs, Less Choice… and Those Subsidies Might Not Help
National Center policy analyst Dr. David Hogberg was featured in a Fox News Channel report on 12/2/13 about the latest bad news regarding ObamaCare. In a segment featured on “Special Report,” it was noted that President Obama’s promise of cheaper ...
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