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Common Core in America: Courtesy of Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia

Parents Must, and Can Reject Common Core in their state, Reject Islamic Infiltration of American Education by Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia “Where did Common Core come from?” is a question I often hear from parents in every state I’ve visited as I travel the country speaking about the Islamic infiltration of America. Because in […]

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Senate Dems: Get Pregnant, Then Get Health Insurance

While everyone else is wondering whether the Supreme Court will replace Obamacare in 37 states with the actual Affordable Care Act as written, some Democratic U.S. Senators are urging women to dive deeper into Obamacare’s perverse incentives by encouraging them to delay getting health insurance until after they become pregnant. As reported by Lydia Wheeler […]

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Immuno-Oncology Promises Continued Wealth and Health: LifeTech Capital’s Stephen Dunn

Staff of The Life Sciences Report Immuno-oncology—disabling cancer’s defenses so that a patient’s own immune system can seek it out and destroy it—took center stage in the drug development world in 2014. Stephen Dunn of LifeTech Capital believes that preeminence will continue in 2015, bolstered by new drug approvals, new targets and new combination immunotherapies […]

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Education: Suppose Al Capone Lives in Your City

So, Al Capone lives in your city. Do you talk about it? Do you mention that this Mafia guy got his mansion by breaking the law, blackmailing people, buying and selling politicians, not to mention killing people?  Seriously, do you ever talk about Al Capone? Or do you look the other way and pretend that […]

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Obama Administration Should Disclose Legal Risks of Losing Coverage to Obamacare Applicants

An increasing number of businesses are figuring out that continuing to offer health benefits puts them at a competitive disadvantage versus firms which socialize the costs of health care by shifting their employees onto Obamacare exchanges. However, these employers are handing their employees a risk that they likely do not appreciate. If they are operating […]

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Looking for Answers in All the Wrong Places on the Autism Epidemic

Joan Swirsky February 10, 2015 Last March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) released its latest data on autism. After surveying medical and school records from 11 states, the CDC found that autism has more than doubled since the new century began only 14 years ago. Today the condition affects […]

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The Big Lie: Measles Money and Illegal Aliens

While the country is busy blaming the measles outbreak at Disneyland on the official story line that it came from “overseas,” and the main stream media is pushing the agenda of vaccination, blaming the outbreak on the statistically insignificant number of Americans who refuse to vaccinate their children, the media is deliberately ignoring the elephant […]

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Audit: HHS Failure to Screen Obamacare Contract Recipients Cost Taxpayers $400M

An internal investigation into how the federal government awarded contracts for developing and building the Affordable Care Act’s most important public element — the online exchanges that were to be used by millions of Americans to purchase health insurance — has found the process was flawed. The investigation showed that The Department of Health and Human Services […]

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The Outpatient Surgery Business Rains Cash: Nobilis Health’s Harry Fleming

 Nobilis Health Corp. has invented a genuine recipe for success: Provide outpatient surgical services with high profit margins and saturate a local consumer health market with advertising. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Nobilis’ president Harry Fleming explains exactly how his booming firm’s business model works?and why investors should take note of the […]

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Obamacare Enrollments Slow to a Trickle

Only 102,000 people enrolled in Obamacare via the federally operated exchange during the week of December 27 – January 2, bringing the total to 6.5 million. This supports my previous expectation that Obamacare enrollment is petering out. Charles Gaba at acasignups.net figures about two million are enrolled via state exchanges, bringing the total to just over 9 […]

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Medicaid Expansion Does Not Create Healthcare Jobs

Ani Turner of the Altarum Institute has examined the growth in healthcare jobs in states which expanded Medicaid versus those which did not expand Medicaid. This preliminary analysis shows that the recent acceleration in health care job growth should not be attributed primarily to Medicaid expansion, in part because (1) overall job growth accelerated, (2) […]

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This Photo is Worth a Thousand Words Explaining Obamacare’s Perverse Incentives

One theme of NCPA’s Health Policy Blog is that health insurers in Obamacare’s exchange plans have perverse incentives to attract healthy patients and deter sick ones from enrolling. This is because the law forbids insurers from charging premiums that reflect applicants’ likelihood of incurring high medical costs. Although there are risk-mitigation mechanisms to overcome this, […]