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America's Civics Teacher: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Q: Where do you get the best price for an MRI? How can you find the best price for an MRI (and why would you care)? I should have gone to Medibid.com. But didn’t. “My bad,” as the kids say. My wife tore her meniscus during 2009. By the spring of 2010, the pain had finally became too great. We though she needed surgery. Since we have a Health Savings Account (HSA), though, we wanted to make sure an expensive surgery made sense. We headed to Summit Orthopedics. Have you ever asked?
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America's Civics Teacher: February 2011
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Friday, February 11, 2011. Federal health care reform - Does it promote an evil practice? Despite the fact that I have written 25 books, a thesis, and hundreds of papers, apparently, I am a failure at writing this kind of information. Why? So I know that I am compelled to go take a "Blog Composition 101" course. I am going to illustrate how the Affordable Care Act of 2010 throws ethics overboard to replace them with institutional behavior that would land a corporate leader in prison. An Affordable Care O...
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America's Civics Teacher: Government healthcare and questions of moral behavior
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Monday, March 19, 2012. Government healthcare and questions of moral behavior. Before I tell you who said it, let me tell you why I quoted it. Senator Ted Kennedy, D- Mass,. Take issue with me, if you will, but you take issue with reality (and I appreciate Kennedy’s support in this). Individual choices drive a good portion of healthcare spending, and this includes the choice of single parentage. Fact. Well, if you love the ACA and the Congress that passed it, you will love their solution. Classifying ste...
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America's Civics Teacher: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Do we spend too much or does it cost too much? We can’t even ask the right questions. Maybe it’s the writer in me, but it drives me nutty when smart, educated, informed people say we have to cut health care cost, when that’s not what they mean. What I believe they mean, taken from the context in which this phrase is usually used, is that we spend too much on health care (and I believe that assertion is hard to defend). The evidence of what I say? Price Every purchase carries a p...
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America's Civics Teacher: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. 8220;Mandatory Life Insurance,” Cries California Congress Person. Perfect Match for Health Insurance Exchanges. BROADMOOR, CA. June 29, 2011: “Tomorrow I plan to introduce the Affordable Life Insurance Empowerment Act in Congress,” said Arly Esperson, Congressperson from California’s 54. Congressional District. “Now that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the health insurance mandate is constitutional, I think it’s time we take the next step.”. The Affordable Life Insu...
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America's Civics Teacher: “Mandatory Life Insurance,” Cries California Congress Person
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. 8220;Mandatory Life Insurance,” Cries California Congress Person. Perfect Match for Health Insurance Exchanges. BROADMOOR, CA. June 29, 2011: “Tomorrow I plan to introduce the Affordable Life Insurance Empowerment Act in Congress,” said Arly Esperson, Congressperson from California’s 54. Congressional District. “Now that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the health insurance mandate is constitutional, I think it’s time we take the next step.”. The Affordable Life Insu...
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America's Civics Teacher: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Constitutionally educated, but detached - A challenge. James Phillips, PhD, my ninth grade civics teacher (1961-1962), taught me three principles that have helped shape my life. First, love the constitution. Second, love education. Third, pay attention to what is happening around you. He knew his constitution well, and made sure we did, too. Our class tore it apart, clause by clause, line by line, word by word. Then we wrote our own. I believe I served on the Pream...Dr Philli...
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America's Civics Teacher: August 2011
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011. Private behavior has a public cost: We all will spend more. Cigarette smokers have taught us that private behavior has a great public cost. Governments have no problem imputing large taxes on smokers and shaming them through tax-supported public service announcements. When it comes to smoking, we get it. But, when it comes to sex, not so much. Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for women 30 years and older;. Sexually-transmitted infection counseling;. HPV, STDs, and HIV, fo...
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America's Civics Teacher: March 2012
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Monday, March 19, 2012. Government healthcare and questions of moral behavior. Before I tell you who said it, let me tell you why I quoted it. Senator Ted Kennedy, D- Mass,. Take issue with me, if you will, but you take issue with reality (and I appreciate Kennedy’s support in this). Individual choices drive a good portion of healthcare spending, and this includes the choice of single parentage. Fact. Well, if you love the ACA and the Congress that passed it, you will love their solution. Classifying ste...
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America's Civics Teacher: Board to Death and The Coming Revolution
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Saturday, March 26, 2011. Board to Death and The Coming Revolution. No, I did not get the headline wrong. Using independent boards to strip us of our freedom appears to be the modus operandi. Of the Obama administration. Czars run this or that project, and many do not answer to Congress nor to voters – only to the person that appointed them: President Barack Obama. Perhaps this will help bring some focus: Stories about two of new federal ruling boards intersected on my digital desk this week, causing me ...
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