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It’s time to scrap federal physician quality measurements 0
- January 17, 2018
When ObamaCare passed, ABMS had a virtual monopoly. The Affordable Care Act used the standard tactic of creating market power by listing specific requirements that only the ABMS program could meet. Among other things, “equivalent programs” would have to report patient data to a registry, require periodic exams, and conducting periodic “practice assessments.”
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The link between Obama’s departure and your increasing wealth 0
- January 9, 2018
But let’s face it: The election of almost any of the major presidential candidates other than avowed socialist Bernie Sanders probably would have triggered a similar boom . . . the upsurge would have come because its principal cause has not been who was elected, but who has departed.
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MAMA: Make America Mine Again 0
- December 29, 2017
Our national security and economic prosperity (including Colorado’s) depend on it After falling behind foreign regimes, the U.S. may begin to develop and mine its own deposits of a whole host of minerals vital to our national security and economic prosperity. In a December 20 executive order, President Trump directed federal agencies to develop a
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A suburban school board just set back educational opportunity for all Americans 0
- December 14, 2017
Last week, the new 7-0 union-backed school board in Douglas County, Colorado, voted to repeal a first-of-its-kind local voucher program and to end the district’s role in a related constitutional case involving nonpublic parental choice. In so doing, the board drastically decreased the likelihood that the case will ever reach a final resolution — a
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Medicaid funds shouldn’t be used to subsidize state taxes on health care 0
- December 5, 2017
Medicaid patients are the losers. Studies suggest that higher Medicaid reimbursements are associated with better care, and that Medicaid patients are more likely to be treated by lower quality hospitals and less highly trained physicians. Recent studies also suggest that the health reforms favored by state and federal governments have done little to improve quality or reduce costs.
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Supreme Court’s gay cake case is about a lack of religious tolerance 0
- November 21, 2017
This June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The facts of the case are similar to the Oregon one: a same-sex couple tries to buy a custom-decorated wedding cake from a business owned by a Christian baker; they were refused based on the bakers’ religious beliefs. Both couples asked their states’ civil rights agencies to prosecute the offending bakers. Both prosecutions were upheld by state courts.
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It’s time to scrap federal physician quality measurements 0

The link between Obama’s departure and your increasing wealth 0

MAMA: Make America Mine Again 0

A suburban school board just set back educational opportunity for all Americans 0

Medicaid funds shouldn’t be used to subsidize state taxes on health care 0

Supreme Court’s gay cake case is about a lack of religious tolerance 0

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