Tag: Health care
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Trump Returns to North Carolina, Announces Historic Drug Price Cuts and Touts Economic Achievements at Rocky Mount Rally
President Trump returned to Rocky Mount, North Carolina on December 19, 2025, announcing dramatic prescription drug price reductions through “Most Favored Nation” negotiations with pharmaceutical companies. He endorsed Michael Whatley for Senate and outlined his first-year economic record.
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Understanding H.R. 6703: The Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act
H.R. 6703 represents House Republicans’ alternative approach to addressing rising health insurance costs without extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits that are set to expire on December 31, 2025. Rather than continuing subsidies that help millions of Americans afford marketplace insurance premiums, this bill focuses on what sponsors call the “root causes”…
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Critical Evaluation of Trump’s Drug Pricing Claims
President Trump’s November 29, 2025 post makes several factual claims about drug pricing policy that require careful examination against available evidence.
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CDC Website Change on Vaccines and Autism Sparks Widespread Condemnation
On November 19, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention substantially revised its “Autism and Vaccines” webpage, replacing language stating that vaccines do not cause autism with text questioning whether that claim is “evidence-based.” The change has prompted an unprecedented wave of criticism from major medical organizations, scientific experts, current and former government health…
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Why don’t you make the vaccine safe?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that during a 1980s meeting between Wyeth (now Pfizer) and the Reagan administration, pharmaceutical executives demanded immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits, claiming vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe,” which led to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
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Evaluation of Highlights From Trump’s Autism Announcement
The White House event on September 22, 2025 featured statements by President Trump and senior health officials about autism, Tylenol (acetaminophen), vaccines, folate biology, and a new research effort (AP, 2025; Reuters, 2025a; Roll Call, 2025). Below is a point-by-point appraisal with consensus evidence.
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Ivermectin Shows That Not All Science Is Worth Following
Despite widespread interest in ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, many studies supporting its use are riddled with methodological flaws, data inconsistencies, and outright fabrications, revealing deeper issues within the scientific publication process.
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Could drug price regulation produce good and not harm?
A sampling of criticism of drug price controls.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Kansas State of the State for 2018
James Franko of Kansas Policy Institute joins Karl Peterjohn to discuss Governor Brownback’s State of the State Address for 2018. Topics include schools and Medicaid expansion.
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Medicaid expansion survey in Kansas
Should Kansans accept the results of a public opinion poll when little is known about it?
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Health care in Kansas and taxes in Sedgwick County
In this episode of WichitaLiberty.TV: Bob Weeks and Karl Peterjohn discuss health care in Kansas and taxes in Sedgwick County.
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Kansas House voting on Medicaid expansion
How members of the Kansas House of Representatives voted on the three votes concerning Medicaid expansion in Kansas.