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Guzzling of sweetened sodas fattens state health care costs

By: Bill Monning 03/31/11 10:11 PM
The opinion piece by K. Lloyd Billingsley of the Pacific Research Institute in the March 16 San Francisco Examiner challenged the state of California’s capacity to tackle obesity due to our recent budget deficits. Billingsley labeled a measure I am authoring, Assembly Bill 669, as a sweetened soda tax that was a “shameless end run around budget cuts.” The truth of the matter is that sugary drinks are the leading contributor to current obesity trends and we are all paying the price.   Read More

Trick Candle

By: Nate Beeler 03/23/11 9:07 PM
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Obamcare: they don't like the dog food

By: Michael Barone 03/23/11 6:32 AM
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Latest report on pension, health care spending predicts nightmare scenario

By: Brent Begin 03/15/11 3:06 PM
The latest report on pension and health care funding for city workers paints a bleak picture. Read More

Obama plays Medi-scare card against cuts

By: SF Examiner Editorial 03/10/11 10:32 PM
Medi-scare is back. This week, President Barack Obama marched out Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to launch a new Democratic campaign aimed at frightening senior citizens. Her message: They will be left with unfilled prescriptions, canceled rehab sessions and a thousand other pains due to spending cuts being sought by the terrible, hard-hearted Republicans in Congress. Read More

Winning the real budget fight means cutting health care fat

By: Matthew Continetti 03/08/11 11:46 PM
House Republicans and President Barack Obama agreed to $4 billion in cuts for fiscal year 2011. The spending reductions were part of a stopgap continuing resolution that will fund the government through March 18. True, $4 billion may seem small when compared with a $1.5 trillion deficit, but don’t forget that these are the first real-time cuts in government spending in modern memory. Read More

Obama Transparency Fail: White House will keep secret Big Pharma-ObamaCare meetings secret

By: Timothy P. Carney 03/08/11 9:41 AM
"The oil companies were allowed to craft energy policy with Dick Cheney in secret ... The industry got everything it wanted." ~Barack Obama, June 22, 2007 Read More

Obama’s Fabian approach to national health insurance

By: James P. Pinkerton 03/06/11 11:00 PM
President Barack Obama seems willing to reconsider the centerpiece of his health care bill, the so-called “individual mandate” — that is, the requirement that everyone hold health insurance, like it or not. Read More

Regulation hampers the very medical innovations we need

By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth 03/06/11 5:00 AM
We all know that life is fragile, but the death of American Enterprise Institute economist Jack Calfee came as a shock. He was working away at his desk at home on the evening of Feb. 16, two weeks before his 70th birthday, and died of a heart attack. Read More

Back-Breaking Work

By: Nate Beeler 03/05/11 11:06 PM
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