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Obamacare Subsidies Offer Welfare to the Wealthy

Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
August 24, 2021

This week, the House of Representatives will consider the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that passed the Senate earlier this month. The proposal includes a host of liberal goals, including permanently extending certain Obamacare subsidies that Congress had previously made more generous only through 2022.
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Watch Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discuss his recent study showing how a two-part drug pricing system would ensure prices more accurately reflect how patients value drugs with Scripps National News. The report aired on 60 television stations in 42 markets across the country reaching 31% of U.S. TV households.

Hold the Applause, Biden Shouldn’t Take an Obamacare Victory Lap

Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
August 18, 2021

If they throw enough federal money at potential enrollees and give them long enough to sign up, they can goose those enrollment numbers in their favor — and declare political victory. And now Democrats want to keep up this charade by making the enhanced subsidies permanent, as part of their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.

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Health Communication Messaging is Critical to Flattening the Covid-19 Curve

Human Events | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Sheeva Azma, M.S.
August 19, 2021

In spite of the wide availability of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, only about half of eligible Americans are fully vaccinated. Partly as a result of that “vaccine hesitancy,” the United States is experiencing a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases, with over 160,000 ([link removed]) on August 18th, more than an order of magnitude higher than in mid-June.

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Genetics Can Predispose Us to Certain Diseases, But Common Sense and Science-Driven Interventions Can Significantly Decrease Risks

Genetic Literacy Project | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D.
August 20, 2021

The study of genetics has always been an attempt to understand our biologically determined fate. Many of us know of families with a predisposition to maladies like heart disease or breast cancer. There are many kinds of interventions that can modulate the effects of our genetic endowment, whether directly (as in highly sophisticated gene therapy for genetic diseases) or pharmaceutical treatments, such as human growth hormone for growth hormone deficiency. .

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