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States can take control of health care reform

WEBExecutive Summary In 2017, freedom-loving Nevadans learned they should not rely solely on Congress to improve the nation’s costly and underperforming health care system. Congressional attempts throughout that year to reform the national status quo — namely, to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) — repeatedly fell short. …

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Physician calls Health District ‘greatest source of …

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Substandard medical screenings increase risk for …

WEBNews You Can Use from Nevada Journal. Editors: Reprint permission, in whole or in part, is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.. Nevada Journal, a member of the Nevada Press Association (NPA) and Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), is an independent nonprofit reporting effort that adheres to the SPJ standards of …

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Solving Nevada’s Medical Malpractice Crisis

WEBCharles Barr. In their frantic attempt to put an end to Nevada’s malpractice insurance crisis, our state politicians are looking for solutions in all the wrong places. It is popular to blame greedy insurance companies, ambulance-chasing lawyers, runaway juries and incompetent doctors. Certainly they have all helped make the crisis worse.

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Solution of the week: How to reform Medicaid

WEBEditor's note: Earlier this year, NPRI released Solutions 2013, a comprehensive sourcebook of research and recommendations in 39 policy areas.Now, each week during the run-up to the 2013 Legislative Session, NPRI will highlight one of these as its Solution of the Week.If you would like NPRI to speak to your organization about this …

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Public health establishment can blame itself for vaccine …

WEBThe willingness of those within the public health establishment to engage in deception almost certainly contributed to the vaccine hesitancy that those same officials are now so frustrated with. Rather than treating Americans like adults and providing them with complete and accurate information, public health officials have instead repeatedly …

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Lawmakers cut millions from education in order to …

WEBNevada lawmakers have put the concerns of politically connected government unions over those of taxpayers, students and at-risk Nevadans. Rather than restoring funding to education and healthcare services, the Legislature instead chose to put roughly $40 million back into the pockets of state government workers by reducing the …

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MediKid: The Evil Side of Doing Good

WEBUnder the guise of providing needy children with health coverage, the president and Congress enacted a wasteful program, dubbed "MediKid," as part of the 1997 budget deal. Before leaving office, Governor Bob Miller seized upon the Clinton initiative, which amounted to incrementalized "Hillary Care," naming it Nevada Check Up. It was part of a …

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Covid, Public Health, Government and Some Solid Advice

WEBTwo real experts on Covid – Drs. Marty Makary and H. Cody Meissner – recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal “The Case Against Masks for Children.” First, they debunked the myth that masks can’t do any harm: “Those who have myopia can have difficulty seeing because the mask fogs their glasses. … Masks can […]

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Swimply’s Fight for Individual Liberty in Henderson

WEBThe latest instance of government overreach is unfolding in the city of Henderson once more. At the heart of this battle is Swimply – a rising online platform allowing Nevada homeowners to share their private pools with others, an embodiment of the sharing-economy.. Launched in 2018, Swimply, like better-known sharing economy …

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Misreading the Obamacare tea leaves

WEBHealth-insurance premiums on New York’s individual market are expected to decline substantially in October, once key provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act become effective.

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Middle-class Americans are thriving, thanks to capitalism!

WEBMiddle-class Americans are thriving, thanks to capitalism! Robert Fellner. Candidates in the Democrat presidential primary are united around a single message: middle-class Americans are not benefiting from the enormous gains in wealth and prosperity created by capitalism and, as such, government needs to play a much larger role in the …

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Clark County Government Unions: When Being in the Top 1 …

WEBDespite the above, the union representing Clark County workers — SEIU of Nevada — recently rejected an offer for an across-the-board raise of at least 2 percent next year, and is demanding 3.25 percent instead. In the 2017 third quarter, local government workers in Clark County received an average weekly wage of $1,155 — which ranked 55

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Teachers Health Trust losing millions a year, teachers told it will be

WEBLAS VEGAS — The main insurance provider for Clark County School District teachers, the union-run Teachers Health Trust, has lost over $17 million since July 1, 2010 and is struggling with cash-flow problems, according to numerous union documents and sources.

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Mapping the Maze of SIIS

WEBA $2.2 billion unfunded liability currently exists in the State Industrial Insurance System, according to the insurance commissioner's recent audit.Over the last five years medical expenditures have risen an astounding 300-450 percent.Since by statue, private insurance carriers are not allowed to write coverage in Nevada, SIIS can rightly be termed a …

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Administrative improvements to the Affordable Care Act

WEBof transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call“Lack it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get the thing [ACA] passed…” - Jonathan Gruber, Architect of the Affordable Care Act

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CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences

WEBNews You Can Use from Nevada Journal. Editors: Reprint permission, in whole or in part, is granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.. Nevada Journal, a member of the Nevada Press Association (NPA) and Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), is an independent nonprofit reporting effort that adheres to …

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