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Health-Care Reform Attacks Federalism

Federalism is one of the bedrock principles of American governance. I wonder how many Congressman really understood how the health-care reform plan passed by Congress on Sunday really was a direct...

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Health Care Reform to Bend the Cost Curve Down? Medicare Actuary Says No.

Hopefully Americans will find this news item today to be a "big #!&$%#* deal," though I suspect few will be surprised that the federal government has sold them yet another bill of goods....

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Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?

Better medicines, carbon neutral fuels, cheaper food, and a cleaner environment—who could be against that? Well, quite a few people, as it turns out. Last week, a research team led by private human...

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Louisiana Legislature Considering Anti-Privatization Bills, Part 2:...

My post last Friday was the first in a review of several anti-privatization bills currently in discussion in the Louisiana state legislature, and today's installment brings us to House Bill 1443. This...

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Parasitic Tort Lawyers

Tort lawyers lie. They say their product liability suits are good for us. But their lawsuits rarely make our lives better. They make lawyers and a few of their clients better off—but for the majority...

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Mercatus: Federal Income Taxes Would Have to More Than Double to Maintain...

Here is a sobering chart from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow and Reason magazine contributor Veronique de Rugy (see an archive of her Reason...

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Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared back in the salad days of the Obama administration. The head of the Food Drug Administration (FDA),...

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Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research

When he announced his policy expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama was not timid about proclaiming its benefits. It would, he announced, hasten "a day when...

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Utah Report Gets it Wrong on Hospital Privatization

A recent article in the Deseret News called attention to a report prepared by the firm Public Consulting Group on behalf of the Utah legislature's Executive Appropriations Committee, which assessed...

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Top 20 California Bills to Veto List Released

California State Senator Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel), Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), and FlashReport publisher Jon Fleischman have compiled a list of the top 20 bills that are most deserving...

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From Yuck to Yippee!

At long last, in vitro fertilization pioneer Robert Edwards has been awarded a Nobel Prize. Back in 1978, his research with his colleague Patrick Steptoe led to the birth of the world’s first test...

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Regulating Personal Genomics to Death

In 2008, Time magazine named retail DNA testing the invention of the year. A scant two years later it is questionable whether this exciting new industry will survive heavy-handed regulation by the...

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Plastic Water Bottles Won't Hurt You

Canada has announced it will ban the chemical bisphenol A—known as BPA—which is used to make plastic water and baby bottles. The head of the Canadian environmental group Environmental Defence is...

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Arizona Voters Support Health Care Freedom; Reject Affirmative Action, Card...

A few interesting results thus far from Arizona's slate of ballot measures: Proposition 106: By a 55-44 margin, Arizona voters thumbed their noses at federal health care reform by passing the Arizona...

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Tax Exemption for Health Benefits On Its Last Legs?

Though it's uncertain whether the next Congress will enact meaningful budget reform, there's reason to believe that once sacrosanct tax benefits could soon be canceled in the name of deficit-trimming....

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No, That is Not Evidence That Obamacare Has Created Jobs

In the wake of the House's vote to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, a number of the President's cabinet advisors have struck back by touting the law's purported benefits. Secretary of Labor Hilda L....

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Government Pills

Government expands on failure. All too often, government failure is treated as evidence that we need more government. Instead, government failure indicates that we should look for alternative results...

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Bioethicists Can't Handle the Truth

“A final lesson from the history of bioethics is the consensus that if you can't offer a patient anything to prevent or to ameliorate a terrible disease, why test for it?,” writes University of...

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L.A. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Pension, Health Care Benefits Reform

The City of Los Angeles is a microcosm of the State of California: a high-tax, high-regulation area with a poor business climate and ballooning pension and budget deficits. The city is facing a $350...

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A Cause of Health Care Costs You Rarely Hear About

I was talking about government run vs private health care with a Canadian friend the other night when, after listening for a bit, another friend chimed in that we were ignoring the doctor monopoly....

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