Publications
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Research & Commentary: New Report On Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Refutes Cost Assertions Made in Astroturf Paper
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A report from the American Energy Institute (AEI) seeks to correct misperceptions about Oklahoma’s Energy Discrimination Elimination Act (EDEA) spread by an earlier report from some organization calling itself the “Oklahoma Rural Association” (ORA). EDEA is an anti-“environmental, social and governance” (ESG) law that bars state and local governments from conducting business with financial institutions that […] -
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Secularized Medicine Harms Doctors, Patients—Book Review
Publication -Review of Missional Medicine—Restoring the Soul of Medicine, Mark B. Blocher, M.D., 2022, 175 pages, ISBN 9781792383069, $20, amazon.com (Paperback) Imagine if you were about to undergo a major surgical procedure, and your surgeon came in and asked if you wanted to pray first, or have a serious conversation about the state of your soul? Today’s […] -
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“Health Equity” Will Destroy North Carolina’s Medical Schools
Publication -Surveying American institutions, one searches in earnest for even a few organizations or systems that progressives have been unable to control. News story after news story confirms that indeed that one, that one, and, yes, that one too have all succumbed to ideological capture. Naïfs like myself once held out hope for science and mathematics. How could geometry be racist […] -
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What Are the Major Presidential Candidates’ Plans for Health Care? – Interview
Publication -Politics may overshadow the issues in the November presidential election, but health care is on the minds of most voters. Twila Brase, president, and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, spoke with Health Care NewsManaging Editor AnneMarie Schieber about the crucial health care issues for a new administration and what reform could look […] -
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North Carolina Medicaid Expansion Tops 450,000 Enrollees
Publication -North Carolina has picked up 450,000 new Medicaid enrollees in the first six months since becoming the 41st state to expand Medicaid. The state’s Department of Health and Human Services reports nearly 6 percent more of the state’s population has enrolled in Medicaid since the legislature, on December 1, 2023, approved Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget, […] -
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FDA Blocks Better Sunblocks – Commentary
Publication -Thanks in part to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Americans do not have access to all sunscreens The United States is in the full throes of summer. After a rainy spring, summer arrived in my home state of Texas a couple of months ago. The sun has burned off the cloud cover, and my […] -
Leading Louisiana Republican Undermines State’s Interests and Defies Voters to Promote Climate Alarmism
Publication -Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) has behaved in a manner regarding climate change that makes it clear he has accepted and is promoting the alarmist climate narrative of the political left. -
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Hospitals Are Responsible for Rising Health Care Prices—Report
Publication -New data shows hospitals are responsible for escalating health care prices, due to the lack of market incentives to curb costs. A growing number of Americans are having difficulty paying their medical bills, due to rising health care prices. In response, some states are using tax dollars to help consumers pay off big medical bills, […] -
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Some Massachusetts Hospitals Don’t Report Drug-Dependent Newborns
Publication -Newborns at risk for lack of medical intervention. Major Massachusetts hospitals no longer regularly perform toxicology tests on newborns or report prenatal exposure to addictive substances to state welfare agencies unless there is other evidence of infant abuse or neglect. Mass General Brigham (MGB) changed hospital policy to address the “racial and ethnic inequities” present […] -
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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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‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act, Another Fiction Unmasked
Publication -‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act for seniors unmasked, with fewer innovative drugs and $280 billion siphoned from Medicare. (Commentary) By Ken Blackwell My, how things have changed in the past few weeks. By the time the Republican National Convention convened, the Democrats had hoped to be running President Biden on a platform touting the alleged success […] -
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Congress Considers Bill to Protect Raw Milk Producers
Publication -A bill that would give consumers more choice in the kind of milk they buy is making its way through Congress. The Interstate Milk Freedom Act (H.R. 8374), introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), would prohibit the federal government from interfering with the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products packaged for direct human […] -
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TikTok Therapists Promote Family Estrangement Therapy to Young People
Publication -TikTok therapists promote family estrangement therapy to young people as a step toward happiness, in a social media fad. by Devon Herrick Public health advocates report there is a growing mental health crisis among young people, especially since covid. One outcome of mental health challenges is an emerging therapeutic estrangement fad on social media. I’m […] -
ANALYSIS: Biden’s Energy Policies Directly Cost U.S. Households More Than $2,548 Since 2021
Publication -Electricity prices alone are up 23 percent since Joe Biden took office. -
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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 […]