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When You’ve Lost the Post


What to Know: Sen. Bernie Sander’s utopian version of the Green New Deal is too fantasy-based for even the Washington Post.

The TPPF Take: Sen. Sanders’ approach—even if it could pass Congress—wouldn’t work, as even the Washington Post acknowledges.

“What would a workable climate plan look like?” asks TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “More freedom—more freedom for energy markets, more freedom to innovate and more freedom for American families to pursue their own goals, without crushing taxes and mandates. It works; the U.S. is already the world leader in cleaner air.”
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New Ideas in Health Care

What to Know: The Raymondville school district is trying a new approach in providing its workers with health care—it’s pairing them with direct primary care providers.

The TPPF Take: Direct primary care is a model that many more employers—and families—should look into for their needs.

“Direct primary care re-establishes the relationship between physicians and their patients—without the middlemen of insurance companies, benefits managers and HR directors,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “To solve our nation’s health care delivery problems, we need new ideas—not the kind of government takeover we would see with Medicare-for-All.”
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A Child Bumps Her Head

What to Know: A new report in the New York Times shows that a hospital’s response to common childhood injuries differs by race, with minority parents more likely to be investigated for abuse.

The TPPF Take: The wrong response to this racial disparity—but one being advocated in major publications—is to investigate more families.

“The appropriately dystopian moniker of the new policy is ‘think less, screen more,’ as if anyone really wants their doctor to think less,” says TPPF’s Andrew Brown. “We must always bear in mind the damage that involvement with the CPS system does to a family—and it should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk response to the bumps and bruises that all children experience.”