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Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs Will Impact Presidential Election
Publication -Health care affordability has implications for the 2024 presidential election, says Drew Altman, president of KFF. In a recent article, Altman says the most important issue in health care for consumers is out-of-pocket costs. For example, between a quarter and a half of all Americans report real problems paying their medical bills, depending on how […] -
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‘It’s Going to Be Catastrophic’: Why the Next Pandemic Will Be Worse Than COVID
Publication -The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning Americans to prepare for the next pandemic, which he fears will be more catastrophic than COVID-19. From the Daily Signal, July 8, 2024, by Rob Bluey Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist who continues to treat patients suffering from COVID, oversaw the CDC’s […] -
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Health Care Can Be Fixed with Commonsense Solutions – Commentary
Publication -Since most of the restrictions were created by Democratic legislation, it is tempting to view the liberation of health care as a Republican project. Yet there is no reason that it couldn’t be bipartisan. The reforms suggested below are not conservative or liberal, Democratic or Republican. They are commonsense solutions that will appeal to the […] -
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HSA Pioneer David Boaz, R.I.P.
Publication -David Boaz, a leading libertarian thinker and the driving force behind the Cato Institute for more than four decades, lost his battle with cancer on June 7 at the age of 70. Boaz was a pioneer of the health savings account concept, says John Goodman, co-publisher of Health Care News and founder of the Goodman Institute […] -
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Obamacare Discrimination Rule Sparks Pushback from States
Publication -Starting July 5, health care entities in the United States will be banned from discriminating against patients not just on race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability but also on their sexual orientation and gender identity. -
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Many People on Medicaid During Pandemic Thought They Were Uninsured
Publication -The suspension of Medicaid eligibility requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic created confusion among both Medicaid recipients and government officials over who was enrolled in the program, according to a new report by Health Affairs. “Continuous coverage” was the term coined by Congress that allowed low-income people enrolling in Medicaid, beginning in March 2020, to remain […] -
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SMOKING GUN: HHS Focuses on ‘Anti-Racism,’ Contrary to Becerra’s Denials
Publication -SMOKING GUN: HHS Focuses on ‘Anti-Racism,’ Contrary to Becerra’s public denials, documents show. by Tyler O’Neil The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden has received multiple recommendations to implement “anti-racism” in policy based on the premise that America suffers from “systemic racism,” even though HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra publicly denied […] -
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Chevron Decision Reins in Regulators
Publication -The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old legal precedent that forced judges to defer to federal agencies in interpreting ambiguously written federal statutes. The landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprise v. Raimondo on June 28 limited the authority of federal agencies, that set rules governing almost every aspect of Americans’ lives. By a six-to-three margin, […] -
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HHS Urged Crackdown on ‘So-Called’ Whistleblowers Exposing Gender Medicine
Publication -An office of the Department of Health and Human Services that enforces medical privacy laws expressed concern last summer that “so-called” whistleblowers had exposed “gender-affirming care,” shortly after a surgeon disclosed that Texas Children’s Hospital was secretly transitioning children. Official video of an HHS committee meeting in July 2023 sheds light on the Biden administration’s agenda just days before […] -
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Bold Advocate for Health Care Integrity and Honesty—Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. – Obituary
Publication -Never afraid to swim upstream—even at the risk of professional retaliation from entrenched interests with good reason to fear her—Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D., never forgot that the calling of a physician is to treat patients in need of care. Singleton, aged 77, died unexpectedly on June 18, according to the Association of American Physicians […] -
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FBI Targets Child Trans Treatment Whistleblowers
Publication -Two employees of Texas Children’s Hospital are facing the wrath of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged illegal secretive treatment of sex-confused children. In June, the DOJ indicted Eithan Haim, M.D., on four felony charges for exposing child transgender surgeries and hormone treatment of minors at Houston-based […] -
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‘South Park’ Mocks Massive Health Care Dysfunction: Review
Publication -Review of South Park: The End of Obesity (Paramount+), 50 minutes, 2024 The nation’s health care system has become so blatantly dysfunctional that the producers of the satirical television series South Park devoted an entire 50-minute episode to a serious matter—obesity—which manages to keep you laughing every single second. Granted, it’s South Park, where obscenities […] -
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Big Hikes in Seniors’ Drug Costs
Publication -Seniors are facing major increases in premiums for Medicare prescription drug plans (Part D) as well as higher prices at the pharmacy, under provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Instead of lowering health care costs, the IRA is a “masterplan in cost shifting,” says Joel White, founder and president of Horizon Government Affairs, a […] -
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California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment
Publication -California licensing laws are blocking a patient’s access to care from a medical specialist in another state, leaving her to go without help or make a 14-hour car trip for treatment in person. Shellye Horowitz of Trinidad, California, suffers from a rare bleeding disease affecting women and girls known as hemophilia A. There are no […] -
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$27.9 Trillion Federal Deficit Bolsters Case for ‘Plan for America’ – Founders
Publication -The nation’s $27.9 trillion federal debt, which is equal to 99 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP), is one of the strongest reasons yet why Plan for America (PFA) is the “most viable, long-term solution,” say its founders. PFA is a voluntary alternative to Social Security and Medicare, that would also eliminate the national […] -
Research and Commentary: New York Senate Wants Clear Terms of Services from Social Media Companies
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The emergence of social media has elevated political dialogue and discourse to a breadth nearly unimaginable a decade ago. When originally developed, these emerging technologies and mediums made the democratization of free speech possible. However, this mass communication network is managed by a handful of large techology firms that are protected from liability and functionally […] -
Research and Commentary: New York Assembly Wants Clear Terms of Services from Social Media Companies
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The emergence of social media has elevated political dialogue and discourse to a breadth nearly unimaginable a decade ago. When originally developed, these emerging technologies and mediums made the democratization of free speech possible. However, this mass communication network is managed by a handful of large technology firms that are protected from liability and functionally […] -
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Michael Barone: COVID Showed That Our Health Bureaucracy is a System Sure to Fail
Publication -Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year, post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous years. It was a bipartisan project put into effect […] -
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U.S. Supreme Court Upends Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement
Publication -U.S. Supreme Court upends Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement that would extinguish claims against Sackler family members. By Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts uphold individualized justice, in the form of each plaintiff’s right to pursue each defendant, even if […] -
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Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., Medical Freedom Champion – R.I.P.
Publication -The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons released the following news about Marilyn Singleton shortly after 10 pm ET on June 18, 2024: “Today we have some very difficult news to share. Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, a longtime member of the AAPS family, a true heroine of American medicine, and valiant defender of the patient-physician […] -
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U.S. Supreme Court Ignores Precedents in Abortion Pill Case
Publication -A U.S. Supreme Court ruling will keep the abortion pill available, with the justices declining to decide the merits of the case. In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the high court ruled unanimously the plaintiffs lacked standing, meaning they did not show an injury to themselves, on June 13. The court did not rule […] -
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Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make Them Legal for Kids – Satire
Publication -From the Babylon Bee RICHMOND, VA – Cigarette maker Marlboro has announced that they have added puberty blockers to cigarettes to make them legal for kids. “Now that our smooth Marlboro cigarettes can block puberty, 13 and 14-year-old kids should be able to use them legally, without parental consent,” said a spokesperson for the company. […] -
Why Lawmakers Shouldn’t Trust the Uniform Law Commission or American Law Institute—Two of America’s Biggest Threats to Freedom
Publication -Policy Briefs -Introduction Among other activities, the American Law Institute and Uniform Law Commission impact society and public policy by drafting and proposing uniform legislation for adoption in all 50 states. Every state has numerous laws that were first developed by the ALI and ULC, the most notable of which is the Uniform Commercial Code, a far-reaching […] -
Ensuring Students Learn the Truth About Communism
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -For decades, the public education system in the United States has failed to accurately teach generations of American students about communism. Even worse, a new movement is afoot in middle schools and high schools in which vulnerable children are being indoctrinated with pro-socialist propaganda and neo-Marxist rhetoric. The infiltration of academia by socialist sympathizers goes […]