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Democrats’ Misguided Plan to Expand Medicare Doesn’t Add Up

Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
September 30, 2021
Older adults are among those least in need of a government handout. According to a recent study by the consulting firm Avalere, of the 24.5 million Americans who could become eligible for the entitlement under this proposal, just 8% currently lack insurance. By comparison, the uninsured rate among all adults was 12.5% in 2020, a recent report from the Commonwealth Fund estimates.

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The Lars Larson Show Interviews Dr. Henry Miller on Organ Transplant Innovations

The Lars Larson Show | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
September 28, 2021

Dr. Henry Miller talks to the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show based out of Oregon about innovations in artificially constructed organs and tissue that could be used to make up for the shortage of organ transplants. Miller also talks about the use of genetically-engineered animals, and the regulatory issues with the FDA, to develop organs for transplant into humans.
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The FDA’s waiting game is costing children’s lives

The Washington Examiner and MSN | Sally C. Pipes
September 30, 2021

The week of Sept. 23 marked the fifth consecutive week in which the United States recorded over 200,000 pediatric COVID-19 cases. In the first week of September, nearly 400 children under 17 were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 — the highest number recorded since the pandemic began. In Florida, total childhood fatalities from the virus more than doubled in a month as the school year began in August.
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Will the Biden administration ‘follow the science’ on regulatory reform?

Nature | Henry Miller, M.S., and John Cohrssen
September 30, 2021

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the US Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology (https:// usbiotechnologyregulation.mrp.usda.gov/ biotechnologygov/about/about), a blueprint for federal agencies’ oversight of genetic engineering that was prepared by the White House and published by its Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
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