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Doctors and AMA Split Over Contentious Issue of ObamaCare
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.27.2011
For more than 160 years, the American Medical Association has served as the self-appointed chief lobbying group for doctors. But the AMA’s lofty status has been under threat over the last several years — and is under attack today. In fact, the AMA now only counts about 17% of doctors as members.
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Heed Your Libertarian Impulse, Gov. Brown
Orange County Register/San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
9.26.2011
It's time for Gov. Jerry Brown to release his inner libertarian. I know. This sounds nuts, or born of wishful thinking. The governor has spent his first months in office advocating more government spending and protecting the ravenous public-sector unions that helped elect him to office. But deep down – maybe, not so deep down – Brown understands the limits of government and the importance of freedom, entrepreneurship and a competitive environment.
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What Should Rick Perry Say About Gardasil?
National Review Online
By: John R. Graham
9.22.2011
The Republican presidential primaries have been temporarily hijacked by a single incident in Rick Perry’s decade-plus tenure as governor of Texas. Despite Michele Bachmann’s ludicrous claim that Gardasil causes mental retardation, let’s recall that not one single schoolgirl was vaccinated by the offensive executive order: The legislature overturned it long before the school year began.
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The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.20.2011
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about creating jobs, they should simply repeal ObamaCare.
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Solyndra crash shows shakiness of market subsidies
The San Francisco Examiner
By: Joseph Perkins
9.19.2011
Solyndra, the Fremont solar-panel manufacturer that went belly up last week, was the subject of a hearing Wednesday all the way in the nation’s capital. Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Committee on Oversight and Investigations wanted to get to the bottom of how the much-hyped “green” company scored a half-billion-dollar federal loan guarantee two years ago this month.
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Pension Wars Will Be Fought At City Hall
The Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
9.19.2011
Breathe a deep sigh of relief now that state legislators have headed home. As Judge Gideon Tucker (and also attributed to Mark Twain) exclaimed, "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." You are safer now than you were a little over a week ago.
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City leaders playing unfair pension politics
San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
9.19.2011
San Francisco officials ought to be looking out for the best interests of The City’s taxpayers and assuring that hard-pressed public services remain well-funded, but instead, they are protecting city unions, particularly the police and fire, by engaging in some questionable political gamesmanship.
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The Conventional Jerry Brown
City Journal
By: Steven Greenhut
9.16.2011
Common wisdom, embraced by many on the left and on the right, holds that California governor Jerry Brown is a most unconventional politician. Brown’s otherworldly attitude, quick wit, and unpredictable utterances have served him well throughout his long political career. Political observers in Sacramento are still trying to figure him out almost nine months into his latest term and decades after he first entered professional politics.
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Anti-Vaccine Activists Apparently Immune To Science
Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.12.2011
Yet another study has debunked the notion that vaccines cause autism. Late last month, a committee of 18 highly respected doctors, professors, legal experts and epidemiologists empanelled by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies and articles and found “no links between immunization and . . . autism.” As the chairwoman of the panel, Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, put it, “The MMR [Measles-Mumps-Rubella] vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t.”
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Democrats' Plan B For Medicare: Medicare For All
Yahoo News and Forbes.com
By: Sally C. Pipes
9.7.2011
Last month, ObamaCare was dealt another huge blow. On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that the law's requirement that all adults purchase health insurance was unconstitutional. The court determined that the government isn't empowered to force private citizens to buy a particular product, be it a car, broccoli, or a health plan.
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Defensive Medicine
The Salt Lake Tribune
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
9.7.2011
The article “Study: Only 1 in 5 medical malpractice cases pay” (Tribune, Aug. 17) reported that “most physicians and virtually every surgeon will face at least one malpractice lawsuit in their careers.” This alarming statistic is an important driver of rising U.S. health care costs.
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Pay cut story highlights pension absurdities
North County Times
By: Steven Greenhut
9.7.2011
Fresno schools Superintendent Larry Powell has been getting the hero treatment in the national media for his reportedly selfless decision to give up his annual salary/benefits of $290,000 a year and instead take $31,000 in salary only. He's doing it for the kids, he said, to save the district significant funds in these tough economic times, but there's far less here than meets the eye.
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California ‘Jobs Gap’ Jumps to Record High
CalWatchdog
By: John Seiler
9.1.2011
California's "Jobs Gap" with the rest of America jumped to a record high, according to new calculations. In 2010, I devised the "Jobs Gap" to measure how much worse unemployment is in California that the rest of America. The Jobs Gap is calculated by subtracting the national unemployment level from California's. Of course, the major factor affecting California's economy is national economic policy. What the Jobs Gap calculation does is filter out the "noise" of the performance of the national economy. What's left is the affect of California policy on state jobs.
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