HEALTH CARE & RETIREMENT ARCHIVE
- Blog: The Health Care You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout--Specialty Drug Edition
- Blog: About That 'Shorter' ObamaCare Application
- Blog: Health Care Odds & Ends
- Press Release: Free-Market Group Proposes Plan for Repeal of Major ObamaCare Tax Provision to Zimmer Holdings CEO
- Press Release: ObamaCare Developments Could Have Major Impact on Leading Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Press Release: Eli Lilly CEO Dr. John Lechleiter Says Obama Administration "Dual-Eligibles" Rebate Plan Would Lead to "Catastrophic Consequences" for Innovation
- Blog: IPAB's Non-Existence Is A Problem Too
- Blog: Environmental Activist Scare Debunked
- Blog: Is ObamaCare 'Government-Run' Health Care? Of Course Not...
- Blog: ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion--Reality Intercedes
- Press Release: Pepsi CEO Responds to Questions About Company's Food Stamp Lobbying
- Blog: Health Care Odds & Ends
- Press Release: Group Tells Stryker CEO that Path to Ending Job and Innovation-Killing Medical Device Tax is Blowing in the Wind
- Blog: ObamaCare: Where's The Lefty Outrage? Part V
- Blog: Why Is IPAB M.I.A.?
- Press Release: National Center for Public Policy Research to Participate in Five Shareholder Meetings this Week, Bringing Total to 18 So Far for this Shareholder Meeting Season
- Press Release: Missing Deadline Shows ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board Is Unworkable
- Press Release: Big Soda SNAPping Up Welfare Dollars
- Press Release: National Center Policy Experts Quiz Pfizer CEO Ian Read and Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky
- Blog: Jeff Stier, Pfizer CEO Criticize "Academic Detailing" in Health Care
- Blog: Johnson and Johnson CEO Says Medical Device Tax Should Be "Reconsidered"
- Blog: Government Health Care: What You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout, Part II
- Blog: Congress Creates Privileged Class Under ObamaCare
- Press Release: Conservative Group to Urge Johnson and Johnson to Rethink Its Decision to Stop Working with Mainstream Conservative Group at Behest of Left-Wing Extremists
- Press Release: Conservative Group to Urge Pfizer to Oppose Administration's Secretive "Academic Detailing" Program that Advises Doctors on Which Drugs They Should Prescribe to Patients
- Press Release: Free-Market Group Presents GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt with Proposal to Simultaneously End Harmful Medical Device Tax and Federal Wind Subsidies
- Blog: Government Health Care: What You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout
- Press Release: GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to Be Asked About Plan to Kill Medical Device Tax and Wind Subsidies
- Press Release: Coca-Cola Executives to Face Criticism at Shareholder Meeting for 'Food Stamp' Lobbying
- National Policy Analysis: Let's Take the Wind Out of ObamaCare's Medical Device Tax, by David Hogberg, Ph.D.
- Blog: New York Post Book Review: The Food Police
- Blog: ObamaCare: Where's The Lefty Outrage? Part IV
- Blog: The ObamaCare Exchanges Are Unfair
- Blog: Why Public Health Advocates Hate E-cigarettes
- Blog: Slippery Slide Toward Infanticide
- Blog: Vermont First State To Reveal Big Incentive For People To NOT Buy Insurance
- Press Release: Keep Your Health Plan and Doctor Under ObamaCare? No, One Lady Finds
- Blog: Obamacare: A Promise Betrayed
- Press Release: Free-Market Think-Tank Applauds Obama Administration Decision on Medicare Advantage Today
- Blog: Stupid ObamaCare Question of the Day
- Blog: 32% Premium Increase, Temp Firm Mutual Funds, And Other Fun With ObamaCare
- Blog: Don't Delay ObamaCare
- Blog: Center for American Progress Lie, Spin or Whackjob Exaggeration of the Day
- Blog: ObamaCare's "Slippery Slope" Could Threaten Job Security of Unfit
- Blog: ObamaCare: Where's The Lefty Outrage? Part III
- New Visions Commentary: Social Security's COLA Conundrum, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
- Blog: Dangers of Nanny State are to More than Just Our Liberties
- Blog: Silly Small Businesses! Health Insurance Decisions Are For The Anointed
- Blog: Electronic Health Records Heading For Iceberg. HHS Says 'Full Steam Ahead!'
- Press Release: Court Strikes Down New York's "Big Gulp" Ban; Good Riddance, Say Policy Experts
- Press Release: New York-Based Health Risk Expert Applauds Rebuke of Mayor Bloomberg's Soda Ban
- Blog: Congress Should Repeal Limits On New Doctor-Owned Hospitals
- Blog: Reporter Examines Hospitals, Falls In Love With Government-Run Health Care
- Blog: ObamaCare: Where's The Lefty Outrage? Part II
- New Visions Commentary: Politics and Pawns, by Hughey Newsome
- New Visions Commentary: Colds, Flu, and the RSV Virus in Underserved Communities, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
- Blog: In Another Government-Run Health Care Horror Story, Man Dies Because EMS Workers Call in Sick -- On New Year's Eve
- Blog: National Center's Stier Talks Tobacco Risk Reduction on Israeli Radio
- Blog: Government Excels At Creating Long Lines!
- Blog: ObamaCare and Virginia: Where's The Lefty Outrage?
- Blog: Insurers Operating At A Loss Is A Good Thing!
- Blog: Project 21's Derryck Green: Obama Birth Control Mandate Compromise Not Enough
- Blog: Medicare Demonstration Projects: Hope Springs Eternal
- Blog: Project 21's LeBon: Americans Sickened by Increasing Food Regulation
- Blog: Big Bureaucrazy Versus Freedom To Farm
- Blog: Obesity Police: Coke is the new AR-15
- Blog: LeBon Commentary on ObamaCare Intrusiveness Featured in Beck's Blaze
- Blog: How Far Left is the Far Left?
- Blog: Obama Administration Ignores Crimes Documented in New York Times
- Blog: In a Government Health Care System, Your Medical Records are Kept Safe -- From You
- New Visions Commentary: Welcome to the Doctor's Office — Your Papers Please, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
- Blog: Less is More for Both Smoking and Regulation
- Blog: The EU's Dangerous Tobacco Ban Experiment
- New Visions Commentary: An Ode To The Role Of Big Government, by Elaina F. George, MD
- Blog: Rahm Emanuel: He's Got Moves Like Bloomberg
- Blog: Signs, Signs Everywhere: ObamaCare Demands Them, Regardless of Cost
- Blog: We Need Government Health Care So We Can Eat Twinkies?
- Blog: Project 21's LeBon Calls for Common Sense Over Bloomberg's Edible Edicts
- Blog: World Health Organization Bureaucrats Want More Bans
- Blog: Bloomberg's Food Donation Ban Still in Place
- Blog: Is Organic Food Worth It?
- New Visions Commentary: Chicago Teachers Should Have a Beef about LFTB Policy, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
- New Visions Commentary: The Decline and Fall of Medicare, by Elaina F. George, MD
- Blog: Lack of Transparency Trumps Good Policy in Obama Administration
- Blog: Nation's Capital May Cap Drink Sales
- Blog: 16 Seconds To Understanding the HHS Birth Control Mandate
- Blog: National Center's Stier Sacks Sinister Soda Strategy
- Blog: WebMD: Is the Obama Administration Making Obesity Worse?
- Blog: Project 21's LeBon Backs New York Parents Against Bloomberg’s Plan B Benefit
- Blog: Student Strike Fights Federal Lunchroom Law
- Blog: Tomorrow's ObamaCare Crisis Today — in Massachusetts
- New Visions Commentary: EPA Regulations Take Peoples' Breath Away, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
- Blog: Indiana State Assembly Committee Discusses Tobacco Harm Reduction, Including My Testimony
- Blog: Jeff Stier: Bloomberg Soda Ban Cog in Larger Anti-Choice Campaign
- Blog: Bloomberg Bans Big Beverages
- Blog: Jeff Stier Discusses Mayor Bloomberg's Failure to Lead in the Fight Against West Nile Virus in NYC
- Blog: PB&J, RIP
- Blog: Debate on Organics is Over: The National Center was Right!
- Blog: City To Mosquitoes: Don't Drop Dead
- Blog: National Center Commentary Helps Obama Official Win "Nanny of the Month"
- Blog: NCPPR's Jeff Stier Defends Consumer Choice for Energy Drinks
- Blog: Regulatory Reform? Really?
- New Visions Commentary: The Antidote to the Affordable Care Act Is Non-Participation, by Elaina F. George, MD
- Blog: The Slippery Slope, in Action, Before Your Very Eyes
- Blog: Don't Just Believe The Activist Do-Gooders
- Blog: Spoiled Food Activists
- Blog: Junk Science About Junk Food
- Press Release: Primary Care Physicians Are Leaving Medicare
- National Policy Analysis: The Next Exodus: Primary-Care Physicians and Medicare, by David Hogberg
- Blog: Nanny State Goes for the Gold
- Blog: Hot Dogs, Lemonade, and Fire Walks
- New Visions Commentary: Does the Tax Man Cometh? by Horace Cooper
- New Visions Commentary: Health Insurance Reform Does Not Equal Good Healthcare, by Elaina F. George, MD
- Press Release: Government Watchdog Calls For Congressional Oversight Hearings To Investigate Illegal Federal Lobbying Grants
- Blog: Congress Must Investigate CDC Lobbying Grants
- Blog: Bloomberg Berates Moms Rather Than Busting Crooks
- Press Release: Statement by Project 21's Cherylyn Harley LeBon on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's New Plan to Give New Mothers Who Don't Exclusively Breastfeed a 'Talking-To' Each and Every Time They Feed Their Baby Formula
- Blog: Nanny Bloomberg is Now Regulating Breasts, and Not in a Kind Way
- Blog: Independents Disagree With Supreme Court Ruling
- Blog: More Black Conservative Comment on ObamaCare Decision
- New Visions Commentary: Government Health Care Rules Raise Costs, Harm Health, by Elaina F. George, MD
- Blog: And In Other News...
- Blog: National Center at the Supreme Court
- Press Release: Black Conservatives Disappointed by Supreme Court's ObamaCare Decision
- Blog: Members of Congress Have a Duty to Understand What the Constitutional Issues Surrounding ObamaCare are About
- Press Release: Leading Liberals' Attacks on Supreme Court in Advance of ObamaCare Decision are "Ignorant and Offensive," Group Says
- Press Release: Doctors Want Soda Taxes To Fund Government Meddling
- Blog: Project 21's Swimp Speaks at Detroit Rally Against HHS Mandate
- Blog: Last Call At The Oasis: A Who's Who of Left Wing Activists
- Blog: Economic Shrapnel From Bloomberg Drink Ban
- Blog: A Serious Note About Mayor Bloomberg's Soda Ban
- Blog: America Cares About Proposed Soda Ban
- Blog: Guess Bloomberg's Benign Beverage
- Blog: New Soda XL Pipeline Developed for New Yorkers
- Blog: Banning Soda Restricts Freedoms for Little Good, Says Jeff Stier on CNN
- Blog: Komen Race = Tea Party?
- Blog: Liberal Who Claimed We're Racist for Attending Merck Meeting Returns With Sexist Put-Down
- Blog: Left's New Claim: National Center is Racist for Attending Merck Shareholder Meeting (Yes, Really)
- Blog: Komen's Flip-Flop Causes the Global Race for the Cure Stumble
- Blog: National Center's David Almasi in VOA News Report on Bloomberg Sugary Drink Ban
- Blog: One Obamacare Debacle You Haven't Heard About... Until Now
- Blog: NYC Beverage Ban Panned by Project 21's LeBon
- Press Release: Soda Ban Slammed: Won't Help Obesity Problem, Restricts Freedom
- Blog: Unintended Consequence of World No Tobacco Day: Public Health Undermined
- Press Release: National Center Welcomes First Amendment Lawsuits Filed Against Contraception Mandate
- Press Release: Merck Triples-Down on Liberalism, Continues to Support ObamaCare Despite Unpopularity and Legal Uncertainty
- Press Release: Merck Executives to be Questioned About Company Lobbying for Unpopular, Unconstitutional ObamaCare Legislation at Annual Shareholder Meeting Tuesday
- Press Release: National Center for Public Policy Research Presents Poll to Yum! Brands Showing Negative Public Response to Its Rejection of Conservative Group Over Voter ID
- Press Release: Yum! Brands, Owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, to Face Questioning by Irate Conservatives at Annual Shareholder Meeting Thursday
- Blog: Bake Sale Ban Repealed: Freedom (and Cupcake) Lovers Win Quick Victory
- Blog: Obesity forecast is overblown
- Blog: Massachusetts Bans the Bake Sale!
- Press Release: Junk Science Behind Latest Federal Obesity Studies
- Blog: FDA Dietary Regs Go Beyond Science and the Law
- Blog: Boston Food Police's Half-Baked Idea
- New Visions Commentary: Pink Slime and Consumer Choice, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
- New Visions Commentary: There's More Trouble With ObamaCare Than the Mandate! by Deneen Borelli
- Press Release: Free-Market Group to Quiz Executives at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson Shareholder Meetings Thursday
- Blog: Pink Slime: Who is the real culprit?
- Blog: A Thought About Eli Lilly and its Enduring Love for ObamaCare
- Press Release: Eli Lilly CEO Firmly Stands By Company's Pro-ObamaCare Lobbying at Shareholder Meeting
- Press Release: Eli Lilly Executives to be Questioned About Company Lobbying for Unpopular, Unconstitutional ObamaCare Legislation
- Press Release: Food Activists "Slime" Perfectly Healthy Beef Product in Ridiculous Bid to Promote Organic Food Agenda
- Blog: After National Center Exposure, Bloomberg Awarded Reason's "Nanny of the Month"
- Blog: FDA Gets It Right on Chemical
- Blog: Deneen Borelli on Presidential Responsibility, ObamaCare
- Blog: Chokehold on Charity in NYC Criticized by National Center's Stier
- Blog: Russian Media Against Bloomberg's War on the Hungry
- Blog: Report from Today's Capitol Anti-ObamaCare Rally
- Blog: We Are The 82%
- Blog: Jeff Stier Talks Bloomberg Food Ban on CNN
- Press Release: Black Conservatives Comment on U.S. Supreme Court's Consideration of ObamaCare Constitutionality
- Blog: Utah's Abortion Waiting Period Lauded by Project 21's Stacy Washington
- Blog: More Mayor Bloomberg Junk Science
- Blog: FDA Science Panel: Dissolvable Tobacco Could Reduce Disease
- Press Release: What's Wrong with New York Politicians?
- Blog: The Cigarette Smokescreen
- Press Release: Nanny State Run Amuck: Bloomberg Bans Food Donations in New York City
- Blog: NYC Bans Food Donations to Homeless: No Kugel for you!
- Blog: Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 19: Saving Private Medicine
- Blog: Scapegoat Selected in Nugget-Gate
- Press Release: Senate Amendment to Protect Faith-Based Institutions from Intrusive ObamaCare Regulations "Protects Everyone," Legal Expert Says
- Blog: Gerri Willis Supports Occupy Occupy D.C. Lunch-In on Fox Business Network
- Blog: Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 8 -- Eating Their Lunch
- Press Release: D.C. "Lunch-In" Protests Federal Guidelines That Denied a Four-Year-Old Her 'Nana and Juice Box
- Blog: Three More Reasons to Ignore the Left's Fake Birth Control Scare, Plus a Really Useful Point that Can Put Cash in Women's Pockets
- Blog: Democrat Congresswomen Walk Out of HHS Mandate Hearing to Protest Omission of Witness Who Wanted to Talk About Something Else Entirely
- Blog: Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 4: "Smoking in the Rain"
- Blog: White House Birth Control Statistics Don't Add Up
- Blog: Involuntary Greenwashing is a Dirty Business
- Blog: Horace Cooper on Obama Administration's Non-Compromise on Birth Control Mandate
- Press Release: White House Claim that Religious Employers Would Not Be Subsidizing Mandated Anti-Pregnancy Coverage is Morally Meaningless
- Press Release: Obama Compromise Infringement of the First Amendment Guarantee of Freedom of Religion is Still Unconstitutional, Experts Say
- Blog: Catholic Bishops Cannot Accept White House "Compromise" on Birth Control Without Surrendering Principles
- Blog: Green Activists Push Polystyrene Ban in California; We Push Back
- Blog: Would Jesus Pay for Abortions?
- Press Release: HHS Contraception Edict Likely to be Ruled Unconstitutional if Not Overturned by Congress, Legal Expert Says
- National Policy Analysis: The Birth Control Mandate is Unconstitutional, by Horace Cooper
- Blog: FDA Tobacco Science Panel Headed in Wrong Direction
- Press Release: Governor Patrick's Harmful Tax Increase Proposal Ignores (or Distorts) Science
- Blog: Fighting Senseless Sin Taxes in Maryland: "There's good reason for lower taxes on smokeless tobacco"
- Blog: When Bureaucrats Stymie Science
- Request: Give the Gift of Liberty
- Blog: A History of Bans: My Book Review in Reason
- Blog: Reflections About Dr. Chris Raines from a Friend, Colleague, and Follower
- Press Release: ObamaCare-Funded Federal Program Leads to Crackdown on E-Cigarettes
- Blog: National Review Online today: The Happy Meal Ban Flops
- Blog: Government Run Healthcare Skews Science
- Press Release: GroupSnoop.org Launches to Provide Background, Data on Nation's Most Influential Public Policy Non-Profits
- Introducing a New Resource: GroupSnoop
- New Visions Commentary: Government Regulation Will Literally Take People's Breath Away, by Bob Parks
- Blog: Activists' Dangerous "Dirty Dozen" Drama Debunked; Media Dozes
- Steven Crowder Video: Let's MOVE with Michelle Obama!
- Blog: Crowder Discusses Social Security and Ponzi Schemes on "Fox and Friends"
- Blog: The Government War Against Quitting Smoking
- Steven Crowder Video: Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?! Crowder Calls the SEC!
- Blog: Jeff Stier Analyzes Role of Surgeon General on NPR
- Blog: National Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier Provides FDA Public Comment
- Blog: What is the Proper Role of the U.S. Surgeon General?
- National Policy Analysis: Upholding Constitutionality of Individual Mandate Would Set a Dangerous Precedent, by Horace Cooper
- Blog: Tobacco Regulation: Can the European Union Learn From the United States FDA?
- Blog: New York Times Columnist Mark Bittman and the Food Police are Wrong
- Blog: Fishy Business: The Bipartisan Effort to Shut Out Competition in the Salmon Industry
- Blog: Zadroga Bill's Federal Dollars Trump Science for NY Politicians
- Blog: How the Media is Dangerously Inflating the Voices of Patient Activists
- Blog: Crony Capitalism Strikes the Salmon Industry
- Blog: Deneen Borelli on Taxes for Teen Smoking Survey and Free Contraceptive Services
- Blog: The CIA's Fake Vaccination Fumble
- Blog: Feds Consider "Junk Food" Ad Ban With Backing of Nanny State Activists
- Blog: ObamaCare's Taxpayer-Funded Social Engineering
- Blog: Chantix Study Underscores Need for Options for Smokers Trying to Quit
- Blog: NRO: Rebutting New York's Smoking Ban
- Blog: Deneen Borelli of Project 21 on School Nutrition Mandates: Worry About Scholarship, Not Sushi
- Blog: Project 21's Borelli: Wall Street Still Supports Obama
- Blog: Pass the Salt? Nyet, Says Government
- Blog: Project 21's Borelli on Chris Christie, John Edwards and New and Costly Federal Nutrition Standards
- Blog: Nanny Staters Ban Anti-Tobacco E-Cig Device
- Blog: CDC Grants Exposed: Los Angeles Times op-ed
- Blog: Anthony Weiner's Other Scandal
- Blog: Daily Caller: CDC Funding Left Wing Activists
- Blog: Even Bad Tax Policy Should Have Sanity
- Blog: Outrage of the Day
- Press Release: Merck Doubles-Down on Liberalism, Reasserts Support for ObamaCare Following National Center for Public Policy Research Questioning at Shareholder Meeting
- Press Release: Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier to Be Challenged Over Merck's Pro-ObamaCare Lobbying
- Blog: Best Health Care Video Ever? If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care
- Blog: Digging Up Another Case of Wasteful Spending: USDA's School Lunch Gardens
- Press Release: Johnson & Johnson CEO William C. Weldon Responds to National Center Questions About Firm's Pro-ObamaCare and Cap-and-Trade Lobbying
- Press Release: Shareholders to Challenge Johnson & Johnson's Support for Left-Wing Policy Agenda
- Blog: Let's Move. Further?
- Blog: First it was the Food Police. Now it is the Medicine Police
- Blog: Taking Away Choices Doesn't Help Us Make "Better" Choices
- Blog: Hypocrisy of the Day
- Blog: Outrage of the Day
- Steven Crowder Video: Fun With Weiners! (Featuring Congressman Weiner)
- Blog: ObamaCare's Big Bucks
- Blog: War Declared on Menthol
- Blog: Florida Anti-Tobacco Group's Game Of Smoke and Mirrors
- New Visions Commentary: The Coming War on Menthol Cigarettes, by Horace Cooper
- National Policy Analysis: School Scare Is Lights-Out For Reason: Fixing Phony PCB Problem Could Cost New York Schools a Billion, by Jeff Stier
- Steven Crowder Video: ObamaCare, Hurray! Quebec Corners!
- Blog: The Government War on Menthol
- Blog: Conservative Cancer Cups?
- Blog: NYC PCB Scare: New York Post Op-ed
- Blog: Vinson Ruling No Victory for Obama
- Blog: Now That the Oscars Are Over, Allow Me To Be a Grouch
- National Policy Analysis: The EPA's Latest Unscientific Power Grab, by Jeff Stier
- Blog: The EPA's Latest Unscientific Power Grab
- Blog: The Food Police Just Won't Quit
- Blog: Appetite For Regulating
- Blog: Salon, Writing About Reagan, Is Wrong About Limbaugh
- Blog: Jeff Stier on Jim Bohannon Tonight
- Blog: Revealed: How a Florida Senator Could Vote to Harm Seniors
- Blog: Project 21's Kevin Martin on Latest Obamacare Defeat in Court
- Blog: Jeff Stier on Government/Special Interest Attacks on Tobacco Harm-Reduction Methods
- Blog: Cherylyn Harley LeBon of Project 21 Talks Obamacare with Jim Bohannon
- Press Release: Black Conservatives React to House Repeal of ObamaCare
- Blog: Anderson Cooper's Andrew Wakefield Takedown
- Blog: Podcast on Quitting Smoking and How the Feds Are Getting in the Way
- Blog: Chuck Schumer's the Hypocrite
- Blog: ObamaCare Repeal Vote Scheduled in House
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