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Summary by The Market Institute of a Center for American Progress forum. The publication of this summary does not constitute an endorsement of the positions presented. The Center for American Progress hosted a forum on […]
Hearing Description: The U.S. House Small Business Committee recently convened to examine what impact the Affordable Care Act is having on small businesses as it relates to the employer mandate. The witnesses reported that the […]
Heritage Foundation Issue Brief summary provided by The Market Institute. On October 16, 2013, Heritage released Issue Brief #4075 analyzing the impact of Obamacare’s Health Insurance Tax on consumers and small businesses. The Affordable Care […]
Visit http://theselfpaypatient.com. Sean Parnell created The Self-Pay Patient to be a resource for the tens of millions of Americans who are either uninsured, have high-deductible health insurance, or just want to escape from bureaucratic medicine […]
Big businesses may spend enormous sums to purchase political favors—such as laws or regulation to mandate purchase of their products or to hamstring their competition, writes G. Keith Smith, M.D., cofounder of the Surgery Center […]
The United States Supreme Court hears oral argument this Monday morning concerning the patentability of human genes, and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has urged the Court not to destroy incentives for […]
Today the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) files an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of patents for genetic and other medical research, including isolated BRCA genes, which are important […]
By: G. Keith Smith, M.D., http://www.aapsonline.org/ We are accustomed to Newspeak from the federal government, in which words have the opposite of their traditional meaning. For example, there’s what I call UCA, the (Un)affordable Care […]
By G. Keith Smith, M.D.: We’re having a heat wave, and one of my sons facetiously suggested that we turn the air conditioner down to the lowest temperature and open the windows to cool it […]
The biggest reason for the medical spending spiral is the lack of straightforward information on prices and actual costs. As Ralph Weber of MediBid explains; “This is because the “product” changed from “medical care” to […]
