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Why Warren’s Math Won’t Work

November 6, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Why Warren’s Math Won’t Work” on Spreaker.

After taking heat from her Democratic rivals for months, Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her plan for covering the cost of government-sponsored health care for all Americans.

Warren says the price tag is roughly $52 trillion over ten years, yet insists she can pay for it by taxing billionaires, cracking down on tax cheats, and streamlining administrative costs of the program.

Chris Jacobs is CEO of the Juniper Research Group and author of “The Case Against Single Payer.” He tells me why all three of Warren’s ideas fall far short of meeting the expected costs, why two of her three ideas are contradictions of one another, and why the math is laughably wrong on the tax enforcement plan. He will also explain what kind of tax increases will really be needed to pay for Warren’s health plans and why he suspects she won’t admit that she’ll have to tax everyone.

Listen to the full podcast with Chris Jacobs.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: costs, health, medicare, news, revenue, taxes, Warren

What Americans Don’t Know about Medicare for All

October 23, 2019 by GregC

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A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows 51 percent of American adults favor a Medicare for All approach to health care. But 58 percent also oppose abolishing private insurance and even more oppose paying more in taxes to pay for single-payer health care.

After all these years, why is there such a disconnect between what Americans think they support and what they actually support once they know the facts?

In this podcast, we ask Galen Institute Pres. Grace-Marie Turner about this discrepancy and what she thinks about new reform ideas from the House Republican Study Committee.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: democrats, health, medicare, news, polling, Republicans, single payer

Why Health Care Is Broken and How to Fix It

October 21, 2019 by GregC

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Politicians keep fighting over how to help Americans pay for their health care. But why is health care so expensive in the first place?

In his new book, “The Price We Pay,” Johns Hopkins University surgeon and Prof. Marty Makary details the epidemic of overtreating and overcharging patients.

In this podcast, Makary tells Greg Corombos why doctors often order treatment when none is actually needed. He also burrows down into why patients are stuck with astronomical medical bills without ever knowing the costs before treatment.

Makary explains why ideas like pointing patients towards healthier lifestyles, showing doctors how often they order treatment compared to their peers, and price transparency are among the keys to bringing competition and results back to the health care sector.

Listen to the full podcast here.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: billing, doctors, health, hospital, Makary, medicine, news

Dem Debate: Warren Gets Whacked, New Tax Nightmare, Tulsi’s Impeachment Twist

October 16, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Dem Debate: Warren Gets Whacked, New Tax Nightmare, Tulsi’s Impeachment Twist” on Spreaker.

Chad Benson, host of “The Chad Benson Show,” borrows Jim’s stool again today.  In this episode, Chad and Greg break down the latest Democratic presidential debate.  First, they get a kick out of watching Elizabeth Warren squirm out of answering whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for government-run health care and watching mild-mannered Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg hammer her for not answering.  They also groan and protect their wallets as Warren pitches her wealth tax yet again and Andrew Yang counters by touting the horrendous value-added tax.  They note how Tulsi Gabbard was the only Democrat on stage who admits President Trump won in 2016 and thinks impeachment will only help Trump in 2020.  And they have fun with some of the really bad answers candidates gave when asked to name people who think differently than them but have had a profound impact on their lives.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Amy Klobuchar, debate, democrats, Elizabeth Warren, health, impeachment, National Review, Pete Buttigieg, President Trump, public option, taxes, Three Martini Lunch, Tusli Gabbard

Would A GOP House Actually Repeal Obamacare?

October 3, 2019 by GregC

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Congress is currently engulfed in impeachment hearings, subpoenas, and talking points. But House Republicans say if they regain the majority in 2020, they will reduce the debt and repeal Obamacare.

Should they be believed this time?

Republicans made Obamacare repeal the centerpiece of their campaign messaging from 2010-2016.  After winning the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans tried to move on Obamacare.  Ultimately, GOP leaders did not push a straight repeal.  Instead they looked to repeal key mandates and make other reforms.  The legislation passed the House but died in the Senate.

The individual mandate was ultimately neutered in tax cut legislation, when the Republicans voted to fine people zero dollars for refusing to purchase health insurance.

However, costs are still rising and Americans are deeply frustrated with their coverage.  So would Republicans actually move to repeal Obamacare?  What other provisions ought to be part of any plan to remove Obamacare but still cover pre-existing conditions, bring down costs, and address other major concerns?

Greg Corombos asks Chris Jacobs, a longtime health policy expert and the author of “The Case Against Single-Payer.”

As Democratic presidential hopefuls argue about whether to pursue single-payer or keep private insurance but add a government-run public option, Jacobs explains why he believes those candidates are debating distinctions without a difference.  He reveals why a pubic option would also eventually lead us to government-run care.

Listen to the full podcast here.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, congress, debt, deficits, health, history, liberals, news, Republicans, Washington

What You’re Not Hearing About Vaping

September 12, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “What You’re Not Hearing About Vaping” on Spreaker.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced the Food and Drug Administration will be finalizing the details to ban all non-tobacco flavored vaping products.  The action comes after a number of recent deaths and hospitalizations were blamed on vaping.

But Consumer Choice Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier says Trump and the media are missing huge chunks of the real story.  As a result, he says the government is about to take sweeping action that will do nothing to solve the problem and will actually make it much worse.

While Stier admits he tends to let adults make their own decisions on products like vaping, his frustration over Trump’s decision is that it’s not supported by the facts.

According to Stier, e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than traditional cigarettes and millions of ex-smokers are now healthier because they switched to vaping.

Furthermore, Stier says nicotine vaping is not related to the health scares and deaths seen in recent weeks.  It’s actually street versions of vapes with very different ingredients.

“Every bit of scientific evidence that we have (of the damaging vapes) points to vaping of THC butane hash oil contaminated with Vitamin E acetate, which should never be heated and inhaled into the lungs,” said Stier.

Stier says banning nicotine vapes for problems they don’t cause would be like banning hypodermic needles because some use them to inject damaging drugs into their systems.

Listen to the full podcast as Stier explains what will happen to the number of medical emergencies linked to vaping if the FDA follows through on this ban.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: health, news, Trump, vaping

Why Didn’t Republicans Get Health Care Reform Done?

July 9, 2019 by GregC

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In the second part of our interview with American Commitment President Phil Kerpen, we examine why Republicans failed to coalesce around a health care reform bill despite controlling the House, Senate, and White House and having seven years to prepare.

Kerpen explains how close Republicans came on multiple occasions and why they landed on the best approach when it was too late.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: health, news, reform, Republicans, states

The Impact of the Democrats’ Immigration Agenda

July 1, 2019 by GregC

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In the first round of Democratic presidential debates in the 2020 campaign, multiple Democrats announced their goal to decriminalize illegal immigration, end deportations of people who commit no other offense than entering the country illegally, and extend government-funded health care to those who broke the law to get here.

With both parties now acknowledging a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, what would be the impact of removing criminal penalties for coming into the country illegally and what would be the financial toll on taxpayers to fund health care for millions of people who failed to enter the country properly?

We discuss all these questions and more with Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, decriminalize, DemocraticDebate, deportation, health, immigration, news

Democrats, Health Care, and Your Freedom

June 28, 2019 by GregC

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Some Democratic presidential candidates want to pursue a single-payer, government-run health care system. Virtually all who don’t want to go that far endorse adding a public option to the existing structure.

Seems like a compromise, right? A decade ago, a public option was dropped from the Affordable Care Act because even some Democrats thought it was putting too much power in the government.

In this podcast, Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner explains why adding a public option wouldn’t bring more competition to the health care market but simply grease the skids for single payer. She also discusses the looming cost to taxpayers if the U.S. goes down this road. Finally, she lays out the financial of Democrats wanting to extend taxpayer-funded health care to people in the U.S. illegally.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: health, immigration, news, publicoption, singlepayer

Illinois: Abortion Now Legal for Any Reason or No Reason at All

June 14, 2019 by GregC

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Illinois now has perhaps the most permissive abortion laws in the nation after Democrats pushed an expansive new bill through the legislature and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law on Wednesday.

Democrats billed the proposal as shoring up existing law over concern that the U.S. Supreme Court could soon reverse Roe v. Wade, but Republican State Rep. Tom Morrison says the legislation was far more sweeping than that, starting with how lawmakers view abortion.

“The most important thing it does is that it says that abortion is a fundamental right of women – actually not just women.  The sponsor of the bill said anyone with a uterus and ovaries, so I guess that’s not just women today as they would define it,” said Morrison.

When it comes to specifics, Morrison says the expansion of abortion access is obvious.

“This bill was 126 pages long and expanded [permissiveness of abortion].  It removed clinic regulations.  It removed provisions to have two doctors involved in a late-term abortion.  There’s a provision for non-physicians to do abortions up to a certain point,” said Morrison.

According to Morrison, the bill also changes the definition of a viable unborn baby.

“It’s now left up to what the doctor determines at the moment, rather than having two doctors agree on a case by case basis,” said Morrison, who adds that the lone doctor can be the abortion provider and a late-term pregnancy can be considered non-viable simply because the baby would need to be flown to another facility for care in a neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU.

In addition, Morrison fears the legislation will be very dangerous for mothers who suffer complications from an abortion.  He says the new law does not require a coroner to investigate the deaths of women who were patients at abortion clinics, essentially allowing those deaths to vanish into the wind.

Among the most controversial provisions is the provision to allow abortions at any stage of pregnancy, even when the child could survive outside of the mother.  While supporters frequently refer to parents making the decision after discovering their child is severely deformed, Morrison says there’s no mention of that issue in the bill.

In fact, Morrison says reasons like “familial health” are cited as reasons for an abortion at any stage.

“It could mean anything.  It could mean financial health.  It could mean mental health.  It could mean a mother doesn’t like stretch marks and that would impact her perception of her body image.

“It’s totally up to interpretation.  Maybe it it’s that a family already has a boy and they want a girl, so they abort the child because the child isn’t the sex that the couple wants.  Maybe it’s that sleep would be interrupted for someone in the family,” said Morrison.

Morrison does believe the recent string of pro-life legislation banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected played a role in the pro-abortion legislation advancing in Illinois.  He says momentum for aborting viable babies was pretty tepid before that.

“Even some of of the pro-choice legislators were reluctant to support those bills.  Those southern states, as they moved forward on their bills and signed them into law, then the proponents in Illinois figured they had the green light to offer a counter to what was happening in those other states,” said Morrison.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Morrison also explain how the new Illinois law could soon lead to the overturning of parental notification and consent laws for minors seeking abortions, how Illinois abortion providers are circumventing the ban on partial birth abortions and much more.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: abortion, health, Illinois, news, viability

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