Questions for Chairman Sanders | By Grace-Marie Turner | RealClearPolicy, May 8, 2023 | Insulin costs will move center stage this week when top executives of three leading manufacturers of the drug will testify before Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) during a hearing on lowering insulin costs. If the committee’s failed … [Read more...] about Sanders’ Insulin Hearing — GMT for RealClearPolicy
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The right way to save Medicare
One claim I find especially annoying is when people say conservatives don’t have ideas for health reform. That absolutely, positively is not true! It’s lazy to cite one thumbs-down vote by a particular senator in 2017 as the final say on the matter. We and our colleagues in the Health Policy Consensus Group offer a plethora of ideas and proposals—which are … [Read more...] about The right way to save Medicare
New Treatments for Obesity
by Grace-Marie Turner | Published March 20, 2023 at RealClearHealth | Obesity is a serious health problem for millions of Americans and for our nation where 42% of US adults are living with obesity. The association with other chronic conditions, including heart disease, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes, is incontrovertible. Obesity also has been identified as … [Read more...] about New Treatments for Obesity
Doubling Down on a Bad Idea
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
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