Why Congress Shouldn’t Increase Obamacare Spending | By Doug Badger, The Daily Signal | July 18, 2022 | Senate Democrats want to salvage some of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better spending bill, and extending Obamacare health insurance subsidies is a top priority Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., whose support is crucial to Democrats’ passing the legislative package, reportedly has agreed … [Read more...] about Doubling Down on a Bad Idea
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Learn to Live with It!
Clinging to emergency powers won’t stop the spread of COVIDby Doug Badger and Kevin Dayaratna |The Philadelphia Inquirer | April 17, 2022 Starting today, Philadelphia is reinstating its indoor mask mandate. In so doing, the city is failing to adapt policy to the changing nature of the COVID public health challenge, Doug Badger and Kevin Dayaratna write in an op-ed for The … [Read more...] about Learn to Live with It!
CDC Must Drop the Masks and Deceit
“Unmasking CDC’s Latest Mask Study: How Government Gets It Wrong Again” By Doug Badger | Feb. 8, 2022, The Daily Signal | Galen Senior Fellow Doug Badger has read the fine print in the latest CDC study on masking and finds it embarrassingly deficient. The Centers for Disease Control blasted out the news from the study that purports to prove wearing a mask dramatically lowered … [Read more...] about CDC Must Drop the Masks and Deceit
Convoluted, Costly Covid Test Plan — Doug Badger in The Daily Signal
Biden’s COVID-19 Tests Plan: Too Little, Too Late | By Doug Badger | The Daily Signal, Jan. 25, 2020 President Joe Biden has a new plan on rapid, at-home COVID-19 testing, but as with much of his administration’s pandemic policy, the plan is convoluted, costly, and late. Making affordable, rapid at-home tests widely available empowers people to learn their COVID-19 status. Instead … [Read more...] about Convoluted, Costly Covid Test Plan — Doug Badger in The Daily Signal
The OSHA Vaccine Mandate: Legal, Practical, and Economic Considerations
By Paul Larkin, Jr., and Doug Badger | The Heritage Foundation, December 2021 | Legal and policy experts Paul Larkin and Doug Badger argue in a paper for The Heritage Foundation that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lacks the authority from Congress to issue a general vaccine mandate. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday regarding a … [Read more...] about The OSHA Vaccine Mandate: Legal, Practical, and Economic Considerations
Don’t Destroy Future Drug Development
Forbes | December 8, 2021 | With support faltering for the massive big-government blowout Congress is trying to jam through by Christmas, Senate leaders would be wise to take a more efficient, bi-partisan approach to solving problems and modernizing hide-bound government programs. How about a new approach…Build Back Bipartisanship. Take, for example, the drug pricing provisions in the … [Read more...] about Don’t Destroy Future Drug Development
Democrats Use Accounting Gimmicks to Conceal Spending in Bloated ‘Build Back Better’ Bill
President Joe Biden is twisting arms to get “agreement” this week on hundreds of tax and spending provisions in his multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill while key Democrats seem to be settling on a plan to keep the price tag down. They want to reduce the overall size of the spending bill to “only” $1 trillion to $2 trillion (as though those two numbers were even remotely close), and only … [Read more...] about Democrats Use Accounting Gimmicks to Conceal Spending in Bloated ‘Build Back Better’ Bill
No OSHA Authority for Vaccine Mandates
Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates | By Doug Badger and Paul J. Larkin Jr. | The Daily Signal | The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated. You may be among them. There’s just one catch: OSHA lacks the legal authority to impose a vaccine … [Read more...] about No OSHA Authority for Vaccine Mandates