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News of interest.
- North Carolina legislators voted to use discrimination to help bail out the State’s Health Plan. As troubling as that sounds, the legislation passed without much trouble, perhaps because it’s been easy to convince the public that certain people are costing them and to blame for having health problems. -Junkfood Science
- The current focus on teaching children “healthy” eating is popularly believed to be so healthful, helpful and necessary, that confirmation bias cannot let us see the evidence that suggests it isn’t. A major 3-year study found disturbing clinical evidence that children are being harmed by such initiatives… children as young as five. Yet, not only has the media not widely report this important study, even its authors missed the biggest story in its findings. -Junkfood Science
- There are certain comforting myths that the gun-control movement likes to promote. “Mandatory gun registration would help us solve gun crimes” is a big one. Perhaps the most comforting — and dangerous — of all is: “Give the robber what he wants, and he probably won’t hurt you.” -Pajamas Media
- The political game here is that Democrats want to use this threat to peel off a handful of GOP Senators before the bill comes to the floor in June. That would short-circuit this year’s health-care debate before it begins. …. This new entitlement — like Medicare but open to all ages and all incomes — would quickly crowd out private insurance as people gravitated to heavily subsidized policies, eventually leading to a single-payer system. So Democrats are trying to seduce diffident Republicans with a Potemkin compromise. A “soft” public option would limit enrollment only to the uninsured or those employed by small businesses, or include promises that the plan will pay market rates. …. The truth is Democrats know that any policy guardrails built this year can be dismantled once the basic public option architecture is in place. The White House strategy is to dilute it just enough to win over credulous Republicans. That is what has always happened with government health programs. -WSJ
- As first reported in the Los Angeles Times, California officials have said that representatives of the Service Employees International Union were given unprecedented access to an April 15 conference call between federal and state officials in which the state was made to justify its plan to slash $74 million from its budget by cutting health aids’ maximum salaries by $2 an hour. -RedState
- Though the swine flu captured the world’s attention, its total confirmed death toll of fewer than 100 people so far provided a point of comparison that many health experts couldn’t resist: Garden-variety seasonal flu kills that many people each day in the U.S. alone. -WSJ
- For some time now, it’s been clear that Organized Labor—and the SEIU in particular—is adamantly opposed to allowing its members to have any say over union representation. Thanks to a lawsuit filed against the SEIU, new details are surfacing that demonstrate the lengths to which big labor is willing to go to quash dissent amongst its membership. -Heritage
- That’s right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways. Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway. “This is clearly an attempt by the city to extort money out of property owners,” Anderson tells WTOP. -Washington Post
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