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A free market will help fix health care

Neurologists are about to feel the sting of the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Jan. 1, Medicare will be paying them less for electrodiagnostic procedures used in identifying and treating a wide range of nerve and muscle disorders. Reimbursement rates for some tests will be slashed by more than 50 percent, ...
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Republican Rx: Parental Choice in Education

In the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s defeat, Republicans are scrambling to find a winning electoral formula. While the punditry class advises the GOP to cave in on immigration and social issues, the bigger and better opportunity for Republicans to increase their voter base and divide the Democrats would be to ...
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Obamacare’s Rationers Employ The “It’s Good For You” Defense

Obamacare’s backers have a plan to justify their attempts to ration medicine — by saying that it’s good for you. Through 2019, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare — will allocate some $3.5 billion toward “Comparative Effectiveness Research,” or CER, which pits drug versus ...
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Obamacare’s doctor depression

Thanks to Obamacare, America’s corps of doctors appears to have a case of the blues. The Physicians Foundation recently asked more than 13,000 doctors about their morale, their career plans, their practices and their views of the Affordable Care Act. The results were grim. Nearly six in 10 doctors said ...
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In Debates Romney Passes Education Test that Obama Fails

In the presidential debates and in recent interviews, it’s clear that Mitt Romney realizes something that President Obama can’t seem to fathom: the federal government is not the nation’s school board. In the recent third presidential debate, President Obama alluded to his support for national Common Core education standards that ...
California

Prop. 30 hikes taxes without fixing K-12 systemic flaws

As Gov. Jerry Brown scurries around the state to save Proposition 30, his ballot measure to increase state sales and income taxes, voters are expressing skepticism that the tax revenues raised by the initiative will be spent wisely. They have reason to worry because Prop. 30 includes no reform of ...
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To Cure Rare Diseases, Unleash Orphan Drug Innovations

Last month, the City of Pittsburgh hosted the 35th annual Great Race, a charity run that raises money for the Richard S. Caliguiri Amyloidosis Research Fund. Caliguiri, a former Pittsburgh mayor, died of this rare protein disorder, and a portion of the race proceeds are used to help find a ...
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ObamaCare Drives More Americans To The Public Dole

The U.S. Census recently announced that the number of Americans without health insurance in 2011 fell for the first time in three years, to 48.6 million. That’s a decrease of 1.3 million from the 2010 figure. Sounds like good news. But a closer look at the data suggests that this ...
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Health care exchanges a disaster for states

All eyes are on voting day, November 6th. But ten days later may prove to be the true make-or-break moment of President Obama‘s political career — regardless of the election result. November 16th is the deadline for states to submit a blueprint to the federal government for Obamacare‘s insurance exchanges ...
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Medical bankruptcy: Fact or fiction?

This year, a whopping 1.25 million Americans are expected to file for bankruptcy. That’s about equal to the entire population of New Hampshire. Ask the president and his allies whom to blame, and they’ll point to health care. President Obama has claimed that the cost of health care causes a ...
Commentary

A free market will help fix health care

Neurologists are about to feel the sting of the Affordable Care Act. Beginning Jan. 1, Medicare will be paying them less for electrodiagnostic procedures used in identifying and treating a wide range of nerve and muscle disorders. Reimbursement rates for some tests will be slashed by more than 50 percent, ...
Commentary

Republican Rx: Parental Choice in Education

In the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s defeat, Republicans are scrambling to find a winning electoral formula. While the punditry class advises the GOP to cave in on immigration and social issues, the bigger and better opportunity for Republicans to increase their voter base and divide the Democrats would be to ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Rationers Employ The “It’s Good For You” Defense

Obamacare’s backers have a plan to justify their attempts to ration medicine — by saying that it’s good for you. Through 2019, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as Obamacare — will allocate some $3.5 billion toward “Comparative Effectiveness Research,” or CER, which pits drug versus ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s doctor depression

Thanks to Obamacare, America’s corps of doctors appears to have a case of the blues. The Physicians Foundation recently asked more than 13,000 doctors about their morale, their career plans, their practices and their views of the Affordable Care Act. The results were grim. Nearly six in 10 doctors said ...
Commentary

In Debates Romney Passes Education Test that Obama Fails

In the presidential debates and in recent interviews, it’s clear that Mitt Romney realizes something that President Obama can’t seem to fathom: the federal government is not the nation’s school board. In the recent third presidential debate, President Obama alluded to his support for national Common Core education standards that ...
California

Prop. 30 hikes taxes without fixing K-12 systemic flaws

As Gov. Jerry Brown scurries around the state to save Proposition 30, his ballot measure to increase state sales and income taxes, voters are expressing skepticism that the tax revenues raised by the initiative will be spent wisely. They have reason to worry because Prop. 30 includes no reform of ...
Commentary

To Cure Rare Diseases, Unleash Orphan Drug Innovations

Last month, the City of Pittsburgh hosted the 35th annual Great Race, a charity run that raises money for the Richard S. Caliguiri Amyloidosis Research Fund. Caliguiri, a former Pittsburgh mayor, died of this rare protein disorder, and a portion of the race proceeds are used to help find a ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Drives More Americans To The Public Dole

The U.S. Census recently announced that the number of Americans without health insurance in 2011 fell for the first time in three years, to 48.6 million. That’s a decrease of 1.3 million from the 2010 figure. Sounds like good news. But a closer look at the data suggests that this ...
Commentary

Health care exchanges a disaster for states

All eyes are on voting day, November 6th. But ten days later may prove to be the true make-or-break moment of President Obama‘s political career — regardless of the election result. November 16th is the deadline for states to submit a blueprint to the federal government for Obamacare‘s insurance exchanges ...
Commentary

Medical bankruptcy: Fact or fiction?

This year, a whopping 1.25 million Americans are expected to file for bankruptcy. That’s about equal to the entire population of New Hampshire. Ask the president and his allies whom to blame, and they’ll point to health care. President Obama has claimed that the cost of health care causes a ...
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