Obamacare: One Year Later
State Regulators Clear Fracking in Water Pollution Claims
After conducting a comprehensive study of claims of natural gas production polluting a ranch owner’s aquifer and drinking water, Colorado state regulators concluded the operations undertaken by Pioneer Natural Resources in Las Animas County, Colorado caused no negative water impacts.
State Regulators Clear Fracking in Water Pollution Claims
After conducting a comprehensive study of claims of natural gas production polluting a ranch owner’s aquifer and drinking water, Colorado state regulators concluded the operations undertaken by Pioneer Natural Resources in Las Animas County, Colorado caused no negative water impacts.
Pilot Programs: A Waste of Money
TownHall.com: President Obama has repeatedly given us his vision of how to lower the cost of health care and raise its quality: Find out what works; then get everyone else to copy it. Toward that end, the administration is making millions of dollars available for pilot programs and demonstration projects. Will any of this work?
Market Failure vs. Government Failure
National Review Online – John Goodman makes a profound point about the common complaint that the market can’t work in health care.
Kentucky Senate Approves Building of Nuclear Power Plants
Environment and Climate News – The Kentucky Senate has approved a bill to end a moratorium on nuclear power plants being built in the state. The bill, sponsored by Bob Leeper (I-Paducah), passed the Senate on February 8 by a 31-5 vote.
Kentucky Senate Approves Building of Nuclear Power Plants
Environment and Climate News: The Kentucky Senate has approved a bill to end a moratorium on nuclear power plants being built in the state. The bill, sponsored by Bob Leeper (I-Paducah), passed the Senate on February 8 by a 31-5 vote.
Putting Health Care on a Sustainable Path
There are major structural flaws in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Each is so potentially damaging, Congress will have to resort to major corrective action even if critics of the new health care law are not part of it. Further, each must be addressed in any new attempt to create workable health care reform.
DOC-IN-A-BOX
Adweek: What Else Could Big-Box Stores Sell? Healthcare!
Committee on House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health
CQ Roll Call: Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, I am John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. I welcome the opportunity to share my views and look forward to your questions.
Overnight Health
The Hill – Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, taking a new tack for defunding healthcare reform, on Wednesday will look at five provisions of the law they want to subject to annual appropriations.
House Republicans Outline Novel Health Reform Defunding Tactic
The Hill- Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans identified on Monday five provisions of the healthcare reform law that they want to subject to annual appropriations so they can defund them.
Nader Groups Demand Feds Regulate Drug Industry Use of Social Media
Health Care News – With the growth of social media, companies and consumers now use sites such as Facebook and Twitter to share information and provide support and service. Now the use of these tools by one category of companies, the pharmaceutical industry, is under attack by a number of groups under the leadership of Ralph Nader.
Study: Drugs from Emerging Markets Have High Failure Rates
Health Care News – A new study assessing the quality of drugs made in emerging markets found the danger of variability remains high for several areas.
Few Support 'Individual Mandate' in Health Care Reform Law, Poll Finds
USNEWS & World Report: Health Day – Half of U.S. adults still oppose the "individual mandate" clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22 percent support it, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.
Mar 1, 2011
NCPA President and Kellye Wright Fellow, Dr. John Goodman will speak on the topic of Health Care legislation at the Dallas County Council of Republican Women’s meeting in Dallas, Texas.
An Accident Waiting to Happen: New York City's "Crash Tax"
New York City is one of the latest municipalities to propose a “crash tax” to fund emergency services. More aptly described as an emergency service user fee, motor vehicle collisions and vehicle fires would result in a charge ranging from $365 to $500. It is still not clear who will ultimately be liable for the fee.