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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 failing. Dr. Emanuel advised Medicare should “lump together” all the services associated with a procedure, such as a hip replacement, and pay one fee for the entire […]
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 describes the medicine’s therapeutic claims. Drug makers and the FDA sometimes spend years negotiating a label. The FDA regulates both safety and “efficacy.” So, a […]
(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 signed, 46 percent of all adults surveyed had a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act, while just 40 percent had […]
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, advertising the Texas Planned Parenthood branch’s track record of fetal tissue sales, including its ability to deliver fully intact fetuses. In the video, actors posing as […]
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 euthanized.” What really happened to that horse? Martha Stewart wanted answers! The “home-improvement maven” sent her demands directly to the mayor and […]
Reconstructed Spanish Flu[/caption] How the Left’s expanding of its base through illegal immigration is hazardous to Americans’ health. Matthew Vadum | Front Page Magazine Even as exotic new diseases and nearly-eradicated old ones keep popping up across the nation, the Obama administration is unconcerned, or some would say, recklessly indifferent, to the public […]
At Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, not one junior took Common Core Smarter Balanced (SBAC) standardized tests this spring. At four other Seattle high schools, district officials said about 95% of juniors refused to take the tests. Seattle-area juniors boycotted tests because they aren’t needed in order to graduate from high school and […]
(A version of this Health Alert, which is co-authored by Roslyn Layton, was published by iHealthBeat. Roslyn Layton is a PhD fellow at Aalborg University’s Center for Communication, Media & Information Studies and vice president of Strand Consult.) The Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to regulate the Internet with the same law that was created for […]
A century of progressive domination of the American educational system has resulted in a growing number of Americans remaining mathematically illiterate. The Common Core standards are a repeat of previously failed federal policies which fail to develop academic skill making the study of mathematics needlessly boring and challenging for too many talented students. These federally […]
David Brailer, MD, was the first head of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC), appointed by President George W. Bush. Today, he is a venture capitalist. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Dr. Brailer notes that a law passed in 1996 governs our access to health information. Clearly, it needs updating: […]
Private school kids can read. Classical academy kids can read. Montessori school kids can read. Homeschooled kids can read. Spot the pattern? It’s only kids in public schools who can’t read. Why is that? You would think our education professors would figure out what the schools are doing wrong. In fact, they have not figured out very […]
Late last month, an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives approved the Medicare Reauthorization and CHIP Extension Act (MACRA), a fiscally irresponsible approach to increasing the amount the federal government spends on Medicare’s physicians’ services. Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedule is tied to an inflation formula that is inadequate to pay physicians enough to […]