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CDC Must Drop the Masks and Deceit

POSTED BY Galen Institute on February 14, 2022.

“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

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Convoluted, Costly Covid Test Plan — Doug Badger in The Daily Signal

POSTED BY Galen Institute on January 26, 2022.

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

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Democrats Use Accounting Gimmicks to Conceal Spending in Bloated ‘Build Back Better’ Bill

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on October 27, 2021.

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

Filed Under: Grace-Marie Turner, The Daily Signal

No OSHA Authority for Vaccine Mandates

POSTED BY Galen Institute on October 26, 2021.

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

Filed Under: Doug Badger, The Daily Signal

Drug Price Controls Threaten Biotech Research and Patients

POSTED BY Grace-Marie Turner on September 22, 2021.

There are too many dreadful provisions in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending monstrosity to count, but one is rising to the surface as especially destructive. That would be its prescription drug price-control schemes. A study by University of Chicago economist Tomas Philipson and analyst Troy Durie concludes that the Congressional Budget Office is wrong by more than an order of … [Read more...] about Drug Price Controls Threaten Biotech Research and Patients

Filed Under: Grace-Marie Turner, The Daily Signal

Rethink The Child Mask Mandate — Doug Badger for Daily Signal

POSTED BY Galen Institute on September 1, 2021.

CDC Should Revise Its Guidance Mandating Masks at School By Doug Badger August 31, 2021  The Daily Signal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “universal indoor masking of all students age 2 and older.” But there’s just one problem: The leading study on which the CDC bases this recommendation found that the COVID-19 infection rate in … [Read more...] about Rethink The Child Mask Mandate — Doug Badger for Daily Signal

Filed Under: Doug Badger, The Daily Signal

“Vax Shaming”

POSTED BY Galen Institute on August 2, 2021.

President Biden yesterday warned governors to “get out of the way of the people that are trying to do the right thing” by imposing new mask mandates, requiring vaccine passports, and other COVID restrictions. Biden called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, pointedly noting their states account for one-third of all new cases.  DeSantis pushed back, saying … [Read more...] about “Vax Shaming”

Filed Under: Doug Badger, The Daily Signal

Trump Doesn’t Need Price Controls to Lower Prescription Drug Costs

POSTED BY Doug Badger | The Daily Signal on September 29, 2020.

By making full use of his executive authority, President Donald Trump has helped to reduce health care costs by increasing choice and competition. But his recent executive order to base Medicare drug prices on rates set by foreign governments is a misstep. Instead of importing price controls, the Trump administration should pursue bipartisan Medicare reforms that would cap seniors’ … [Read more...] about Trump Doesn’t Need Price Controls to Lower Prescription Drug Costs

Filed Under: Doug Badger, Prescription Drugs, The Daily Signal

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