Commentary
Commentary
ObamaCare turns 10 – decade of failure is nothing to celebrate
As the calendar flips to 2020, we’re coming up on a decade since the passage of ObamaCare. But Democrats aren’t celebrating 10 years of the Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010. That’s largely because President Obama’s signature legislative achievement hasn’t yielded the affordable care Democrats promised. Let’s start with that opening ...
Business & Economics
Entrepreneurship can be the antidote to poverty
More than 38 million Americans are living in poverty, according to the latest U.S. Census data. That’s just under 12% of the population. Not exactly what President Lyndon Johnson had in mind when he declared war on poverty in 1964, more than a half-century ago. Since then, the U.S. poverty ...
Commentary
Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is malarkey
The New Hampshire primary is less than six weeks away. According to the latest polls, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pitch doesn’t appear to be resonating with Granite State voters. He hasn’t topped a poll there since early November. Biden hopes his call for a public option will help vault ...
California
Assembly Bill 5 is already destroying jobs and opportunities
With Assembly Bill 5, lawmakers not only came up with a solution for which there is no problem, they created hardships where there were none before. The bill was peddled as means to establish fairness for California freelance and independent contractors. No longer will they be “exploited” by businesses. The ...
Commentary
Democrats’ health care mistakes of 2019 – five things they keep getting wrong
Whether on the debate stage or in the halls of Congress, over the past year Democrats have misled the public on just about every major health care issue. As 2019 draws to a close, let’s look at the five biggest things Democrats got wrong on health care this year. Supporters of “Medicare-for-all” routinely ...
Commentary
America’s Critical Medical Device Industry Gets A Needed Tax Cut
Medical devices may not be as glamorous as blockbuster drugs, but they include some of the genuine miracles of modern medicine: pacemakers, artificial joints, replacement heart valves, scanners, and cancer radiation-therapy machines. The U.S. has been the global leader in medical devices, one of the few major industries that both ...
Commentary
The Government-Sponsored Rush To Electronic Health Records Endangers Patients
The government’s push to deploy electronic health records across our medical system has driven physicians to the point of despair. That’s among the key findings of a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a medical journal. More than 5,100 doctors completed surveys on the usability of EHRs, or digital versions of ...
Commentary
Court ruling leaves problem-plagued ObamaCare’s future unknown – More pragmatic plan needed
ObamaCare’s much-hated requirement that every American carry health insurance or pay a penalty was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday in a 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That’s the right decision on a badly flawed law – but it won’t change anything for months or more likely years ...
Commentary
The Deep State Will Challenge the New FDA Head
Now that the Trump Administration’s new FDA commissioner, Dr. Stephen Hahn, has been confirmed, he’ll find he has one of the most difficult and important jobs in government. The FDA’s purview is wide, regulating pharmaceutical and other medical, food, and vaping products that account for more than 25 cents of ...
Agriculture
What’s missing from claims that neonicotinoids are killing bees, birds and fish?
Pesticides continually get a bad rap, much of it undeserved, some of it bizarre. A recently published study from Japan seems to show that neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”), used around the world to protect crops from insect infestations, are so destructive that even before they were on the market or ever used ...
ObamaCare turns 10 – decade of failure is nothing to celebrate
As the calendar flips to 2020, we’re coming up on a decade since the passage of ObamaCare. But Democrats aren’t celebrating 10 years of the Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010. That’s largely because President Obama’s signature legislative achievement hasn’t yielded the affordable care Democrats promised. Let’s start with that opening ...
Entrepreneurship can be the antidote to poverty
More than 38 million Americans are living in poverty, according to the latest U.S. Census data. That’s just under 12% of the population. Not exactly what President Lyndon Johnson had in mind when he declared war on poverty in 1964, more than a half-century ago. Since then, the U.S. poverty ...
Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is malarkey
The New Hampshire primary is less than six weeks away. According to the latest polls, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pitch doesn’t appear to be resonating with Granite State voters. He hasn’t topped a poll there since early November. Biden hopes his call for a public option will help vault ...
Assembly Bill 5 is already destroying jobs and opportunities
With Assembly Bill 5, lawmakers not only came up with a solution for which there is no problem, they created hardships where there were none before. The bill was peddled as means to establish fairness for California freelance and independent contractors. No longer will they be “exploited” by businesses. The ...
Democrats’ health care mistakes of 2019 – five things they keep getting wrong
Whether on the debate stage or in the halls of Congress, over the past year Democrats have misled the public on just about every major health care issue. As 2019 draws to a close, let’s look at the five biggest things Democrats got wrong on health care this year. Supporters of “Medicare-for-all” routinely ...
America’s Critical Medical Device Industry Gets A Needed Tax Cut
Medical devices may not be as glamorous as blockbuster drugs, but they include some of the genuine miracles of modern medicine: pacemakers, artificial joints, replacement heart valves, scanners, and cancer radiation-therapy machines. The U.S. has been the global leader in medical devices, one of the few major industries that both ...
The Government-Sponsored Rush To Electronic Health Records Endangers Patients
The government’s push to deploy electronic health records across our medical system has driven physicians to the point of despair. That’s among the key findings of a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a medical journal. More than 5,100 doctors completed surveys on the usability of EHRs, or digital versions of ...
Court ruling leaves problem-plagued ObamaCare’s future unknown – More pragmatic plan needed
ObamaCare’s much-hated requirement that every American carry health insurance or pay a penalty was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday in a 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That’s the right decision on a badly flawed law – but it won’t change anything for months or more likely years ...
The Deep State Will Challenge the New FDA Head
Now that the Trump Administration’s new FDA commissioner, Dr. Stephen Hahn, has been confirmed, he’ll find he has one of the most difficult and important jobs in government. The FDA’s purview is wide, regulating pharmaceutical and other medical, food, and vaping products that account for more than 25 cents of ...
What’s missing from claims that neonicotinoids are killing bees, birds and fish?
Pesticides continually get a bad rap, much of it undeserved, some of it bizarre. A recently published study from Japan seems to show that neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”), used around the world to protect crops from insect infestations, are so destructive that even before they were on the market or ever used ...
