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Americans filled an estimated 3.8 billion retail prescriptions in 2011 — about 12 per person in the United States, on average. Sixty percent of all Americans take a prescription drug in any given year, and nearly all seniors do. Drug therapy is arguably the most efficient method to treat most illnesses — often substituting for more […]
Suppose you are a liberal-minded person and sincerely want to help people — specifically, poor people and minorities. What kind of educational strategies do you use? The two main options are: A: Young children quickly learn how to read and write; they master basic skills and knowledge. The emphasis is on becoming an educated person. […]
Dr. Ben Carson made quite a splash at the National Prayer Breakfast the other day. Elsewhere I discuss the moral vision he provides in his book, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great. But here I want to look at his recommendations for health reform. Most people who saw the speech were thrilled (or appalled) that he called […]
The apparent costs of Obamacare are going up. And up, and up. How much additional cost will the average private payer see in the coming year? The Society of Actuaries, according to The Wall Street Journal, has issued a new report “warning that the cost of medical claims in the new individual-insurance market could rise […]
Over the next 10 years health reform will impose upon us about $1 trillion in new taxes and it will take another $716 billion out of Medicare, imperiling access to care for the elderly and the disabled according to Medicare’s Office of the Actuaries. It will impose a mandate to buy health insurance on most people […]
“Oh-oh, yes you are the great pretenders Pretending that you’re doing good Your need is such that you pretend too much You’ve done all the damage you could” The top 1000 people in public education, let’s call them the Education Establishment. They make all the decisions. Our public schools are what they are because of […]
It’s hard to believe almost any budget numbers coming out of Washington, D.C., these days. The reason? The Obama administration is cooking the books. Okay, it’s not actually violating any law. But perhaps it should be against the law for the Office of Management and Budget to do what it routinely has been doing: putting […]
“Honor God in All We Do” Prompts Challenge to the HHS Mandate by Karen and Rodney Mersino and Mersino Management Company All their corporate offices display a document that reflects their core value, “Honor God in all we do by serving our customers and employees with honesty and integrity.” Karen and Rod Mersinos’ business success […]
Abstract The quickly rising costs of Medicare are a burden on all Americans. The traditional program’s fee-for-service payment system, in which doctors and hospitals receive a fixed payment for each procedure and service, encourages an increase in the volume of services requested, which encourages excessive spending. The system also does not ensure quality, which contributes […]
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national non-profit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced that it has filed its fourth legal challenge to the HHS Mandate. This fourth case was filed yesterday on behalf of Michael Potter, Chairman and President of Eden Foods and […]
The federal government has been spending billions of dollars on health care pilot programs and demonstration projects. President Obama has explained their purpose: “We need to find out what works and then go do it.” In other words, the exercises are supposed to discover how to lower costs and raise quality so that everyone else […]
Socialism is being promoted and Christianity is being demonized in the public school systems of some of the most conservative states in America. For example, students in Texas public schools have been taught to design a socialist flag for a new nation, that those that participated in the Boston Tea Party were “terrorists”, and that […]