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Trump: Transparency Will Lower
Health Care Costs
by Political Editors
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Congress to Blame for Catch and Release,
Open Border, 3rd World Invasion
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Deputy Ice Director Tom Homan addresses the Uniparty globalist/RINO self-imposed restraints that make border security virtually impossible to achieve... citing the squatter caravan from Central America as an example of just how badly the open borders traitors have compromised and diminished our nation’s ability to defend itself from invasion. Tucker Carlson notes that while some of the illegals may opt to sneak across, many will simply surrender and demand asylum, which gives them a court date and a ticket out into American society. liar-nObama and his corruptocrats, working in conjunction with their well-positioned activist judges have really gotten one over on America this time. Carlson asks if it would be possible for those enforcing our immigration policies to simply say to the squatters, “You are not residents, you have no legal right to come in, no you can’t cross the border.” Homan takes a minute to note that if they were really seeking asylum they just passed through Mexico, which had offered them asylum, so that’s not it. They are breaking into America... https://rickwells.us/congress-border-release-invasion/.FBI Delays Release of Communications
With Firm That Examined DNC Servers
by Joe Schoffstall
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has pushed back the estimated completion date of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request... for documents pertaining to its communications with the security firm that examined the Democratic National Committee's hacked servers to October. The Washington Free Beacon submitted the FOIA request in July 2017 with the FBI seeking all communication between the bureau and CrowdStrike, Inc., the California-based cyber security firm that examined the DNC's servers following the infiltration that led to the release of John Podesta's emails. The FBI said in December the documents should be available by March. The FBI, which was never granted access to the DNC's servers for inspection, instead relied on the third-party firm that was brought in by the DNC for information regarding the compromised network who concluded that Russia was behind the hack... http://freebeacon.com/issues/fbi-delays-release-communications-firm-examined-dnc-servers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6949d07477-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6949d07477-45611665 .
Deregulating the individual market
will not lower overall health costs
by James C. Capretta
{ aei.org } ~ Many Republican policymakers in Congress and some officials in the Trump administration continue... to confuse insurance deregulation in the individual market with unleashing market forces in health care. They are not the same thing. Thinking otherwise leads to misplaced emphasis on ideas that might help some insurance enrollees in the short-term but will have very little effect on their lifetime costs. The primary problem with the provision of medical care in the U.S. is the absence of an overall system of cost discipline. Unlike other sectors of the economy, medical services are not bought and sold in a well-functioning marketplace that rewards value, innovation, and efficiency. There are many reasons for this, including the large imbalance in information between suppliers of services and patients, which leads to market failure. Further, despite the existence of many government rules for health insurance and the provision of medical care, the U.S. also does not have effective regulatory control over total costs. Instead, what we have is a mishmash of large public subsidies for insurance enrollment, government regulations, and some private activity and incentives too. Unfortunately, the sum of these parts does not add up to a coherent whole. Instead, U.S. health care suffers from rampant waste, inefficiency, high administrative costs, and uneven quality... http://www.aei.org/publication/deregulating-the-individual-market-will-not-lower-overall-health-costs/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dOaE5qQmhPR1JrTVRsbCIsInQiOiJ5STVCQzJhWms4WlwvYXBOSTFsVGkyQkRFQlpMaE1cL1c2bVJXR1B0YmoyR010Skh3Skl0TGJHcG5KSFZzTkFyRCt2VXY1SlI4M1wvMXpxWjYyV1ZWRUhoYnp5Vm9HOUEwTGZlVGJhcmg3NW9oQXB4cUtvSmZBZHB1am0wakdYZUtTcyJ9.
The High-Tech Lynching of Diamond and Silk
by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ It would have been nice if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the gods of totalitarian tech... had been sitting next to iconic conservative bloggers Diamond and Silk as they testified on Zuckerberg's censoring of their Facebook page and heard the opinions the dynamic duo expressed there. But the internet gatekeeper would have had to leave his safe space of corporate and even congressional sycophancy. As it was, Zuckerberg could sit back and watch Democrats engage at Thursday's House Judiciary Committee hearings in the character assassination they level at any blacks who express conservative opinions or otherwise stray off the Democratic plantation, just as they have done from Clarence Thomas to Kanye West. Ignoring the censorship of conservative news and viewpoints by the social media giants, those who smiled sweetly as the likes of James Comey and Andrew McCabe lied through their teeth accused Diamond and Silk (AKA Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson) of being paid Trump staffers and then lying about it, the issue being FEC records showing they were paid for "field consulting" during the 2016 campaign. The Democrats, rope in hand, headed for the nearest tree... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/the_hightech_lynching_of_diamond_and_silk.html.
Thomas Sowell's Last Word?
by Richard Kirk
{ americanthinker.com } ~ "Just the facts, ma'am." That was Joe Friday's interrogation refrain on Dragnet... The same comment could serve as the subtitle of Thomas Sowell's recent book, Discrimination and Disparities. Few works on politically explosive topics maintain such a consistent focus on empirical evidence while avoiding rhetorical jabs at opponents. On the other hand, empirical evidence cuts deep, especially when critics can't protest the author's "nasty" style. As radio talker Larry Elder observes, "facts are to liberals what kryptonite is to Superman." Sowell's title, if employed by a member of the leftist intelligentsia, would doubtless imply a causal link between statistical disparities and some form of discrimination – usually racial. Sowell, by contrast, marshals an abundance of evidence to show that this automatic assumption isn't justified. Focusing simply on statistical probabilities, Sowell notes that if five prerequisites are needed for success in a particular field, and if the chances are two out of three that any person will have each characteristic, the chance of possessing all five characteristics are still only one in eight – a calculation that helps explain why most pro golfers have never won a PGA tournament while Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods have collectively won over 200 times. Consequently, "given multiple prerequisites for many human endeavors, we should not be surprised if economic or social advances are not evenly or randomly distributed among individuals, groups, institutions or nations at any given time."... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/thomas_sowells_last_word.html.
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Trump: Transparency Will Lower Health
Care Costs
by Political Editors: One of the most maddening aspects of health care is just how difficult it can be to determine the cost of care up front. With little recourse for knowing the price before the care is provided, it’s like purchasing a service almost entirely in the dark. Imagine if a restaurant worked this way: A costumer comes in and makes an order and asks the cost, only to have the server respond, “You’ll find out when you get the bill.” Clearly, such an establishment would struggle to stay in business.
by Political Editors: One of the most maddening aspects of health care is just how difficult it can be to determine the cost of care up front. With little recourse for knowing the price before the care is provided, it’s like purchasing a service almost entirely in the dark. Imagine if a restaurant worked this way: A costumer comes in and makes an order and asks the cost, only to have the server respond, “You’ll find out when you get the bill.” Clearly, such an establishment would struggle to stay in business. Well, President Donald Trump wants to change that. On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed regulations that would require hospitals to provide a list of standard prices online. This would be a significant change from current regulation, which only requires that standard prices be made available “in some form.” As Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar explained, “This payment proposal takes important steps toward a Medicare system that puts patients in charge of their care and allows them to receive the quality and price information needed to drive competition and increase value.”
CMS is also looking for ways to address surprise billing by health care providers and seeking comments on how to provide patients with better information up front about out-of-pocket costs. It’s all part of HHS’s efforts to encourage “further transparency” from health care providers — efforts that should also help lower costs by increasing competition in an oddly secretive industry. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55602-trump-transparency-will-lower-health-care-costs
