June 5, 2012 Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making George Washington University is getting $1.9 million for a project to reduce health costs by $1.7 million. By STEVEN E. GREER Dr. Greer, a surgeon, is CEO of the Healthcare Channel (thehcc.tv) and a financial analyst. Early this year, I was briefly involved with one of the Affordable Care […]
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June 5, 2012 Fannie Med Health and Human Services gets into the venture capital game. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Then there’s Medicare’s so-called “innovation center” and its $10 billion kitty to make grants to companies and providers to test new methods for improving care. Democrats included language that bars administrative or even judicial review of
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March 16, 2012, 6:36 p.m. ET Notable & Quotable Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on the medical profession’s move from the Hippocratic oath toward the “veterinary ethic.” Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer writing March 15 at Reason.com: For centuries, my predecessors and I have been inculcated with what has come to be called the “Hippocratic Ethic.” This
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February 22, 2012 ObamaCare Versus Individual Freedom Washington Examiner Jim DeMint President Obama’s new mandate requiring all employers to purchase insurance coverage for their employees that includes abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception is an outrage, of course. But what kind of outrage is it? Most of the public outcry has understandably centered around the mandate’s
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JANUARY 24, 2012, 11:18 A.M. ET A contraceptive mandate provokes an unnecessary war. By WILLIAM MCGURN When Barack Obama secured his party’s nomination for president in 2008, one group of Democrats had special reason to cheer. These were Democrats who were reliably liberal on policy but horrified by the party’s sometimes knee-jerk animosity to faith.
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Wed, Nov 30, 2011 05:41 AM Surgery goes well for Baby Adam BY TAMMY GRUBB – Correspondent Published in: Health/Science COURTESY OF PAULRAJ FAMILY Raja and Jessica Paulraj adopted Adam this month. COURTESY OF PAULRAJ FAMILY Baby Adam with his adoptive father, Raja Paulraj. EXCERPT FROM
NOVEMBER 19, 2011 A chillingly blunt assertion of regulatory power against a drug for breast cancer. The extraordinary Avastin saga has become a kind of randomized controlled trial, pitting the Food and Drug Administration’s power against potentially life-saving drugs for terminally ill patients. The results are proving that the former is far stronger, with FDA
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NOVEMBER 1, 2011 Cooking the Books on Grandma’s Health Care Medicare patients who get less care have a higher risk of dying. Don’t believe the hype that implies otherwise. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY The British medical journal Lancet reported last month that 32% of elderly American patients undergo surgery in the year before they die, a
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‘Contagion’ all too real Film exposes true biodefense vulnerabilities that need solutions By Tevi Troy Tevi Troy, a former deputy secretary of health and human services, is a fellow at the Hudson Institute and at the Homeland Security Policy Institute. – The Washington Times Thursday, September 15, 2011 Jude Law’s character, Alan Krumwiede,
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