That is what a Pharma firm lawsuit seeks to do. It also opens up a novel front in the war on natural products by asking the US International Trade Commission to help create a new monopoly by knocking out imported EPA, the most anti-inflammatory kind of fish oil. Urgent Action Alert! Amarin, the maker of […]
A novel legislative concept may be gaining some traction. Action Alert! Here’s the gist of it. Rather than develop an alternative federal system, just turn health insurance over to the states. If California wants to create a single-payer system, allow it to do so. If another state likes Obamacare, let it keep it. If another […]
These are from John Goodman, a top healthcare analyst now at Goodman Institute. Goodman has proposed a number of reforms that we think should be considered in any effort to improve or replace Obamacare. Offer tax credits to employees. Tax credits are offered to individuals purchasing health insurance through the Obamacare exchanges. If tax credits […]
The horror stories are legion. A 64-year-old woman had chest pains and was taken by ambulance to a non-profit hospital. After three hours of tests, she was told she had indigestion and sent home. She did not have insurance. Her bill was $21,000. Another patient was told he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He went to MD […]
Obamacare doesn’t even need to be repealed and replaced in order to do it. Action Alert! Last week, the Senate considered a number of bills to repeal and/or replace Obamacare—all of which failed. For those interested in keeping score: One version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act included Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) initiative that insurers […]
No, but this false narrative is being pushed by the mainstream media. Last week, a paper in the Journal of Medical Toxicology reported that calls to poison control centers concerning dietary supplements were up 50% over the period 2005-2012, with most of those calls relating to small children. The mainstream media pounced, questioning whether parents […]
The Caucus’s new bill ironically misses what is most needed: consumer medical freedom of choice! Action Alert! Last week, the House Freedom Caucus took steps to move forward on an Obamacare repeal bill. It is the same bill that passed both Congressional chambers in 2015 but vetoed by President Obama. The bill repeals the individual mandate, […]
Recently, President Trump announced his pick to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the government agency charged with monitoring and managing significant public health problems. That pick is Georgia physician Brenda Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald served most recently as Georgia’s Public Health Commissioner. One of her signature achievements in that role was a childhood […]
This time directed at Joseph Mercola, MD. Mercola.com is a key natural health resource on line. We couldn’t recommend it more strongly for advice on every imaginable topic. And it is free. Dr. Mercola recently released a new book, Fat for Fuel. This cutting-edge book focuses in particular on how to optimize mitochondrial function, but […]
We need to save this powerful pain reliever now. Action Alert! Without urgent grassroots support, hurting Americans could lose pivotal access to CBD oil, a key natural pain medication. Momentum is building on Capitol Hill, but our voices must be heard. In recent weeks we’ve been telling you about recent federal actions that threaten to […]