Yes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are Planning to Legalize Abortion Up To Birth
…on “abortion after fetal viability” if the “treating health care provider” decides that “continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.” defines a…
Read moreThe Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare
…that the implications of these cuts are “unclear,” but possible consequences include … reduced access to health care; diminished quality of care; increased efficiency of health care delivery; less investment…
Read moreDoes the Affordable Care Act Ration Medicare?
…true seat of rationing, and the royal road to health–care socialism.” Criticisms of IPAB have multiplied since this time, and even some liberal Democrats like Barney Frank have called for…
Read moreFive Vital Facts About Obama’s Contraception Compromise
…has progressed. In such cases, an ounce of prevention improves health and reduces spending—for that individual. But when analyzing the effects of preventive care on total spending for health care,…
Read moreFive Fables About Medicare
…increased from 21% to 32%. As explained in the Encyclopedia of Health Care Management (page 391), when individuals don’t directly pay for their healthcare, they have “little interest in price.”…
Read moreFDA Violated Own Safety and Efficacy Standards in Approving Covid-19 Vaccines For Children
…and health care providers” that: currently authorized SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests should not be used to evaluate a person’s level of immunity or protection from Covid-19 at any time, and especially…
Read moreIs the Official Covid-19 Death Toll Accurate?
…pandemic, such as delayed medical care, economic hardship or emotional distress.” In the five states that that had the most Covid-19 deaths in March and April: stroke deaths were 35%…
Read moreKrugman and Obama Mislead on Debts and Deficits
…factors “will substantially boost federal spending on Social Security and the government’s major health care programs, relative to GDP, for the next 10 years and for decades thereafter.” Regarding these…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…sharing, such as deductibles or co-payments, and beneficiary premiums are very limited in Medicaid and do not represent a significant share of the total cost of health care goods and…
Read moreThe Hard Facts on Covid-19 Science Denial
…unemployment, social isolation, delayed medical care, depression, and anxiety: The United Nations reported that C-19 lockdowns are creating lethal mental health problems through an array of mechanisms like separating people…
Read moreVital Facts About Covid-19
…explained by Dr. Brett Giroir—who has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and serves as the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—the Covid-19…
Read morePolitiFact and Facebook Spread Gravely Dangerous Falsehood About the Covid-19 Survival Rate
…for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—informed journalists in March 2020 that the Covid-19 death rate is “lower than you heard probably in many reports” because…
Read moreVirginia Governor Issues False Statement Defending Late-Term Abortions
…baby shown below. “Health” and “Doctors” The Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island bills explicitly permit late-term abortions for the “health” of the mother. As defined by the Supreme Court’s…
Read moreCNN Butchers the Facts on Late-Term Abortions
…health of the mother.” Importantly, Roe defines threats to a mother’s health so broadly that they can include practically anything. Some eye-opening examples of what Roe deems to be hazardous…
Read moreGenuine Facts About Omicron, Delta, Naturally Acquired Immunity, and Vaccines
…people year after year, like common colds.” CNBC (7/13/20): “World Health Organization officials said Monday that patients who recover from Covid-19 may be able to get the coronavirus again, adding…
Read moreFact-Based Poll Reveals Fictions Believed by Voters
…Romney voters. Question 17: Do you think that preventative medical care generally increases or decreases people’s lifetime medical costs? Correct Answer: Increases. Repeated studies have shown that preventative medical care…
Read moreObama’s Plan for Tackling the Deficit
…“some of our health care programs, like Medicare and Medicaid,” • cut “discretionary spending,” • and went back to tax rates “that would still be lower than they were under…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…produced roughly the same results, a 2019 paper in the Annals of Family Medicine found that “social and behavioral factors”—not “deficiencies in health care access or delivery”—are the main drivers…
Read moreThe Facts on Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Policy
…works is no nursing home in New York can accept a patient if they don’t believe they can care for that patient adequately, and if they can do it within…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
…of 65-plus-year olds. Question 22: When health insurance copayments are high, people tend to spend less on healthcare. Does this reduced spending typically have a negative impact on their health?…
Read moreWash Post Repeatedly Botches Fact Check of Trump’s State of the Union Address
…“would not” permit such abortions because the bill states: that a health–care practitioner “may perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on…
Read moreBlame for the National Debt
…growth in federal spending projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) stems from the “government’s major health care programs: Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the insurance…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters Misinformed About Key Issues
…patients’ access to care? Correct Answer: Yes. As explained by Medicare’s actuaries, the price controls in the Affordable Care Act will cut Medicare prices for many medical services over the…
Read morePre-Election Poll: Voters Broadly Misinformed About Key Issues
…affect Medicare patients’ access to care? Correct Answer: Yes. As explained by Medicare’s actuaries, the price controls in the Affordable Care Act will cut Medicare prices for many medical services…
Read moreFour Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
…in 2021, people who desperately need such help often refuse care. For instance, the: Parkland killer “received extensive mental and behavioral health services until he turned 18 and decided himself…
Read moreRoe v. Wade Allows Abortions for All 9 Months of Pregnancy, Not Just the First 3
…a mother’s health, such as the “stigma of unwed motherhood,” the work of “child care,” and “the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child.” Likewise, Doe v. Bolton,…
Read moreCan We Prevent a Debt-Driven Economic Collapse Without Reforming Entitlements?
…slowing the growth of health care spending.” Although this description is based upon CBO’s projections, Bernstein misrepresents these projections by whitewashing the details of the path he advocates. In truth,…
Read moreObama’s Mandate Imposes His Views on All Americans
…their employees — by refusing to permit them contraceptive coverage as required under the Affordable Care Act.” In truth, the so-called contraception mandate imposes the views of President Obama (and…
Read moreIs the Obama Administration Forcing People to Pay for Abortion-Inducing Drugs?
…Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently exercised one of these powers by mandating that “most new and renewed health plans” are required to cover without…
Read moreEffects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
…provide an “examination” and “stabilizing treatment” for anyone who comes to such a facility and requests care for an emergency medical condition, a childbirth, routine prenatal care, or routine postpartum…
Read moreMaximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
…$3,096 per household in Food Stamps during 2019. Medicaid beneficiaries received an average of $7,816 per person in health benefits during 2017. Section 8 voucher beneficiaries received an average of…
Read moreThe Most Objective Evidence Shows No Indication That Covid Vaccines Save More Lives Than They Take
…treatment. Though widely ignored in media coverage of Covid-19 vaccines, medical journals describe all-cause mortality in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as: “the most objective outcome” (Journal of Critical Care) “the…
Read moreDebt Versus Deficit: Obama’s Bait and Switch
…they can argue “that we shouldn’t be helping people get health care, and we shouldn’t be helping kids who can’t help themselves and whose parents are under-resourced — we shouldn’t…
Read moreAudit Reveals Federal Finances Are Far Worse Than Publicized Figures
…all of its fiscal obligations. For example, the Treasury report reveals that the federal government owes $6.5 trillion in retirement and health benefits to federal employees and veterans. This legal…
Read moreTreasury Data Reveals Federal Shortfall of $614,000 per U.S. Household
…accrual accounting for their pension plans, because this is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same applies to other retirement benefits like healthcare. The…
Read moreA Factual Look at Obama’s Presidency
…data on big picture outcomes with tangible impacts. Obama’s cover letter mentions variables like the portion of people with health insurance, but this is of little import if the insurance…
Read moreAOC’s Pitch for the Green New Deal Is Unhinged From Reality
…health or welfare.” According to the latest and earliest primary measures of these pollutants, the average U.S. outdoor levels of: carbon monoxide declined by 84% from 1980 through 2017. ozone…
Read moreWarren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims (Part 2)
…beyond Buffett’s target due to increasing costs from Social Security and mandatory healthcare programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the health insurance subsidies established under the Affordable Care Act. Yet,…
Read moreTreasury Report: Federal Fiscal Shortfall is $603,000 per Household
…The federal government requires large corporations to use accrual accounting for their pension plans, because this is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same…
Read moreNew Treasury Data Shows Federal Shortfall of $670,000 Per U.S. Household
…government requires large corporations to use accrual accounting for their pension plans, because this is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same applies to…
Read moreFederal Government’s 2017 Fiscal Shortfall Is 74% Worse Than Reported Budget Deficit
…for their pension plans, because this is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same applies to other retirement benefits like healthcare. The official statement…
Read moreFederal Fiscal Shortfall Surges Past $100 Trillion
…this is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same applies to other retirement benefits like healthcare. The official statement of this rule explains that…
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…for the products and services they supply. However, this mostly benefits wealthier people because they consume more products and services produced by low-income immigrants, such as child care, restaurant meals,…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…overcome filibusters in order to pass health–care reform and many other reforms, and other Obama administration priorities. … It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008…
Read moreFour Fabrications About Firearms
…More Guns Means More Murder To prove his claim that “more guns means more murder,” Times columnist Bret Stephens cites a 2013 paper in the American Journal of Public Health,…
Read moreThe Birthright Citizenship Debate
…as food stamps, housing, home energy, child care, and health insurance. can sometimes serve as shields to prevent their parents from being deported. can sponsor their relatives to become legal…
Read moreWidespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
…during 2017. Other government programs provide noncash welfare benefits in the form of utility assistance, college grants, school lunch, school breakfast, community health centers, family planning services, prescription drugs, job…
Read moreFederal Fiscal Shortfall Nears $1 Million Per Household
…reliable” way to measure their financial health. The same applies to other retirement benefits like healthcare. The official statement of this rule explains that “a failure to accrue” implies “that…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
…hospitals. As the paper details, “antimicrobial therapy is a sensitive proxy indicator for health care-associated infections (sensitivity, 95 to 100%).” Although comprehensive data is unavailable, the rate of hospital-acquired infections…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
When governments force private health insurance companies to issue coverage to uninsured people with preexisting conditions and charge them the same rates as people who have been paying premiums for…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
…the steep rise of third-party payments over the past half century, and this has been a major factor in the growth of healthcare costs. Per the Encyclopedia of Health Care…
Read moreQuestion of the Day
…or limited one or more major life activities.” This data is based on a nationally representative survey of about 50,625 adults. To obtain free or affordable mental health care for…
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