The CDC and mask mandates: Unmasking the truth | By Norbert Michel and Doug Badger | April 27, 2021, National Interest | How reliable are government declarations that mask mandates prevent the spread of the coronavirus? Not very, as a new article by Norbert Michel and Doug Badger in National Interest demonstrates. With the Center for Disease Control’s announcement this week that it’s … [Read more...] about Misplaced Trust on Mask Mandates
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The High Cost of Drug Price Controls
By Grace-Marie Turner | RealClearHealth | April 28, 2021 The debate over expanding government control of our health sector should have ended during the Covid-19 pandemic: Where there have been failures in responding to the crisis, it has been a failure of big government—such as the Center for Disease Control’s arrogant and clumsy insistence on controlling early development of testing … [Read more...] about The High Cost of Drug Price Controls
Don’t Attack Innovation
“Pharmaceutical Innovation is Winning the War on COVID-19. Biden Shouldn’t Disarm.” | By Doug Badger | Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2021 The Biden administration is launching what amounts to a federal assault against pharmaceutical innovation—innovation that led to the historic feat of producing vaccines against COVID-19 in record time. President Biden would impose federal price controls on … [Read more...] about Don’t Attack Innovation
Biden must keep his health care promises
By Brian Blase | The Hill March 18, 2021 | Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration appear to be laying the groundwork to take health coverage away from millions of people. Next week, House Democrats are holding a hearing on programs by the Trump administration that expanded valuable options for health coverage. Restricting private options would be … [Read more...] about Biden must keep his health care promises
Back To Normal?—Doug Badger In Sun Sentinel
Will life after COVID-19 be normal? |By Doug Badger |Sun Sentinel, March 5, 2021 | Can the federal government ban evictions? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. But the answer touches on a deeper one, as yet unsettled: Will life after COVID-19 be normal? Consider what a federal judge said recently when he struck down a Centers for Disease Control ban on evictions, which the Trump … [Read more...] about Back To Normal?—Doug Badger In Sun Sentinel
Dems’ Bill Increases Income Inequality—Brian Blase in NY Post
Dems New Covid Relief Bill Subsidizes Health Care for the Rich | By Brian Blase | New York Post, Feb. 28, 2021 Democrats’ holy grail is reducing income inequality. So it’s ironic that they are considering a bill to expand ObamaCare that will primarily benefit richer households and health-insurance companies. The massive coronavirus relief bill racing through Congress provides … [Read more...] about Dems’ Bill Increases Income Inequality—Brian Blase in NY Post
One In Four Medicaid $$ Spent Illegally—Blase And Dublois In NRO
Improper Medicaid Payments Have Soared since Obamacare By Brian Blase & Hayden DubloisNational Review, December 9, 2020 A recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reveals astronomical improper spending in Medicaid that should alarm all Americans.The rate of improper payment in Medicaid, the nation’s third largest government program, … [Read more...] about One In Four Medicaid $$ Spent Illegally—Blase And Dublois In NRO
Alarming & Unlawful Medicaid Spending: Brian Blase In NY Post
Medicaid is hemorrhaging $100B on Americans ineligible for the program By Brian BlaseNew York Post, November 28, 202 States are facing alarming costs for their shares of Medicaid spending, and a new report helps explain why: the government—both in Washington and in state capitols across the country—is failing to ensure that only those who are eligible for benefits are … [Read more...] about Alarming & Unlawful Medicaid Spending: Brian Blase In NY Post