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How can government determine the value of an employee?
Commentary by Pamela Villarreal Source: Investor’s Business Daily | December 04, 2013 The bottom line is that those who want to make $15 an hour flipping burgers should . . . pursue education and skills that warrant higher pay. This week, another fast-food walkout will take place in 100 cities. Evidently, this one claims to […]
Obama Kicks Seniors Yet Again
Commentary by Devon Herrick Source: TownHall.com | March 04, 2014 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a negative impact on seniors’ access to care. Much of the funding for the ACA is derived by cutting $716 billion from Medicare over the next decade. One major cut includes a 25 percent fee reduction to physicians […]
Commentary by Pete du Pont
Farewell Some thoughts on the views that have animated this column. Source: The Wall Street Journal | May 27, 2014 Governor Pete du Pont is a Board Member of the National Center for Policy Analysis. He writes a regular column for OpinionJournal.com, the online news service of The Wall Street Journal. Pete du Pont has served […]
Medicare has a drug problem
Drug Fraud Is Growing, And Costly, Problem For Medicare NCPA Commentaries by Devon Herric. October 29, 2014 Source: Investor’s Business Daily When Congress passed the Medicare Part D drug program, it inadvertently created a license to steal. A small minority of Medicare beneficiaries abuse prescription drugs for recreation and/or profit. In the process they also steal […]
A Member of the European Parliament’s Warning to America
The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power. By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives have struggled to press […]
World Health Report 2000 was an intellectual fraud of historic consequence
The Worst Study Ever? | By Scott W. Atlas | Commentary Magazine | April 2011 A profoundly deceptive document that only marginally measured health-care performance at all. The World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2000, which ranked the health-care systems of nearly 200 nations, stands as one of the most influential social-science studies in history. […]
2012: The Make or Break for America
AGENDA GAMES: How Today’s High-Stakes Political Combat Works. By B. K. Eakman EPILOGUE: THE “IT” YEAR OF 2012 First, the “It” girl—a concept that means more than mere “perfection.” The “It” factor captures that certain “something” one can’t quite define, but that redirects the attention from anything else whenever “It” appears. Professional entertainers and those […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part I
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick Published in cooperation with the National Center for Policy Analysis […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part II
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the January 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) PROBLEM: THE DESIRE […]
Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World Part III
In 2002 and 2003, we reviewed The Twenty Myths of health care reform. Now a decade later the authors have updated the book, renamed it, and added important 21st century data. Lives at Risk by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave, and Devon M. Herrick (Continued from the April 2014 HPUSA Newsletter) PROBLEM: WE HAVE […]