Martha Stewart crusades for horses. Will she crusade for kids in New York’s...
The New York Daily News reported that “Martha Stewart sent a letter to Bill de Blasio asking that his administration seek answers in the mystery ailment of Tickles, a carriage horse who had to be...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Research Director: Delivery of Fully Intact Fetal Cadavers...
HOUSTON, Aug. 4–The fifth undercover video in the controversy over Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts shows the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell,...
View ArticleObamacare Now Hurts Republican Politicians More than Obama
(A version of this Health Alert was published in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 10, 2015.) Polls consistently show that Obamacare is unpopular. Back in April 2010, the month before the law was...
View ArticleVictory for Free Speech in Medicine
John R. Graham | NCPA Judges are chipping away at government censorship of communications about prescription drugs. The Food and Drug Administration exerts great power over a medicine’s label, which...
View ArticleBundled Payments, Barely Hatched, Go the Way of the Dodo
Last month, I wrote about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), medical groups accountable to the federal government for management of healthy populations. Even Zeke Emanuel recognizes that they are...
View Article“Free” Canadian Health Care At $12,000 Per Family
The Fraser Institute has released a study estimating the costs of Canada’s government monopoly, a.k.a. single-payer health system. A typical Canadian family of four will pay $11,735 for public health...
View ArticleCongress’ Mental Health Mandate Debate is Voodoo Health Economics
Devon Herrick | NCPA BLOG Recent episodes of mass violence have raised awareness of severe mental illness. The perpetrators of these horrendous crimes were undoubtedly suffering from significant...
View ArticleDoctors and Guns
By Lawrence N. Pivnick MD JD Something is rotten with the state of medicine today. Well, more than one thing actually, but today’s complaint concerns the fact that your doctor has been conscripted by...
View ArticleThe FDA Wants to Regulate Feces Like a Drug
Devon Herrick | NCPA Slang words describing human feces are often used to denote products of poor quality or that have absolutely no value whatsoever. A product that is substandard is sometimes...
View ArticleThe Big Box Retailer in Health Care
Devon Herrick | NCPA Back in the 1950s, department stores were the big box retailers of their day. Rather than go to different specialty stores for shoes, hats, coats and bed linen, one only had to...
View Article42 Percent of Immigrant Households Used Medicaid in 2012, Versus 23 Percent...
The Center for Immigration Studies’ latest report concludes that 42 percent of immigrant households, both legal and illegal, used Medicaid in 2012. Only 23 percent of households headed by a native-born...
View ArticleThe Education Establishment: Just a Bunch of Tricksters
Bruce Deitrick Price When you place a lot of articles on the Internet, as I do, you can expect to get abuse, sometimes earnest, often uninformed, but now and then tricky to a sinister degree. My...
View ArticleHealth Spending Increasing Share of GDP
John R. Graham | NCPA Last week’s third estimate of Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter confirms that growth in health spending might be moderating somewhat from its initial Obamacare fueled...
View ArticleHealth Jobs Dominate Terrible Jobs Report
No good words were used to describe last week’s Employment Situation Summary: “Every aspect of the September jobs report was disappointing,” wrote Michelle Girard, chief U.S. economist at RBS (quoted...
View ArticleSteve Jobs vs the Education Establishment
Bruce Deitrick Price Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, was arguably more intelligent and capable than 99.9% of the population. In a 1980 interview Jobs gave his vision for education: “I’m a very...
View ArticleAethlon Medical’s Biofiltration Platform Tackles Everything from Ebola to...
Gail Dutton | The Life Sciences Report Aethlon Medical Inc. has pioneered a novel biofiltration platform that was used effectively against Ebola in 2014. Now this broad-spectrum platform is being...
View ArticleWhen Social Engineers Play God: Transforming American Medicine
Mary Ann Kreitzer | Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA — U.S. medical care and its delivery are changing and have been for several decades. When was the last time you were sick, called...
View ArticleCongress Needs to Demand Return of Every Dollar Spent on Failed Obamacare...
After spending at least $3.2 billion of the $5.5 billion allocated for the creation of state-based exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, some states are now seeking to...
View ArticleProstate Cancer Screening: Can the Government Get It Right?
John R. Graham | NCPA Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests are back in the news, as they are one entry point for the government to start micromanaging how it pays doctors in Medicare. To set the...
View ArticleWanted: Healthy People to Prop Up Obamacare Ponzi Scheme
Devon Herrick | NCPA The U.S. health care system is an unsustainable mess. Medical spending is rising at twice the rate of income growth. Medical prices are rising at three times the rate of consumer...
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