The New England Journal of Medicine and authors of a commentary on e-cigarette use have ignored our call for correction of a substantial error regarding e-cigarette use among American schoolchildren in 2011 and 2012. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove of Columbia University double-counted some users in a figure they used to illustrate data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS).
Featured · Government · Health Care
I don’t agree with the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn very often, but in a recent article he said, “everybody should be cautious about making firm pronouncements about how the Affordable Care Act is doing.” Amen to that.
Of course, Mr. Cohn can’t help himself. He uses that reasonable statement as a launching pad for attacking, “…Cruz, Barrasso, and all the other hard-core Obamacare opponents on the right.” He just can’t imagine why these people might be skeptical of Administration claims about enrollment.
Ezra Klein recently released a 2-minute clip explaining the need for individual mandates under Obamacare. Man, does that guy talk fast!
Mr. Klein gets most of his explanation about right, with one big exception. He says that a family making $80,000 a year will (eventually) be penalized $2,000 for failing to buy coverage — “less money than health insurance will usually cost you, but you don’t get anything for that money,” he says. Uh, that’s understating things quite a bit. A family insurance policy costs $16,351 according to the most recent employer benefits survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A new effort by the Obama Administration to change the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by imposing new rules on how the plans are set up and managed risk[...]
Writing in the National Journal, Sam Baker tries his darnedest to minimize some of the effects of Obamacare.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
The president’s latest decision to effectively exempt a portion of the American people from the individual mandate is the most egregious and unlawful step he has yet taken in the failed rollout of his health care law.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Dr. Chad Mathis joins The Heartland Institute to discuss his campaign for Congress in the state of Alabama. Mathis is also a surgeon, so he has a lot to speak of in regards to Obamacare; an issue that is increasingly concerning among the citizens of Alabama.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
I’d find a doctor who would take chickens and rhubarb pie as payment before I’ll submit to Obamacare.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
On a wintery Monday night in Washington about 70 people gathered at a banquet to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of Health Savings Accounts into law.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
The Obamacare “disaster” is everywhere. Recently, a poll in Transom showed that 42% of Indpendents trust democrats in regards to healthcare, whereas 58% trust Republicans. Ben Domenech, senior fellow from The Heartland Institute, says the poll shows a major shift in attitudes; historically, democrats have been viewed in favor regarding health care.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
All of us who prefer to be free men in a free society with a free market need to do all in our intellectual power to stop and reverse this reactionary counter-revolution against the ideal of human liberty.
Featured · Government · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
The Leviathan in the modern “democratic” state counts on us to simply throw up our hands and submit. Refuse.
Featured · Government · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
Domenech: Allowing people to keep their health care plans would be virtually impossible at this point.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
John McClaughry, Vice President of the Ethan Allen Institute, discusses Vermont’s health care exchange struggles.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Taxes
The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted as the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country… But the real problem is that the government is already doing too much.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care
Some Democrats are beginning to break their oath of silence as Obamacare crumbles.
Perhaps the most pernicious side effect is the erosion of the provider-patient relationship. When I first began working with electronic health records, I caught myself staring at the computer screen instead of engaging patients, who rightly felt ignored.
Featured · Health Care · Science
Katy Butler argues for public support to bring society back to a better way to die and offers an excellent road map toward success. This is an outstanding book for anyone who believes that death is inevitable.
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