More fraudulent science from EPA

The Obama Environmental Protection Agency recently slashed the maximum allowable sulfur content in gasoline from 30 parts per million to 10 ppm. The agency claims its new “Tier 3” rule will bring $7 billion to $19 billion in annual health benefits by 2030. “These standards are a win for public health, a win for our environment and a win for our pocketbooks,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy insists. But according to Environ International the finalized Tier 3 gasoline sulfur rules will bring bogus benefits at a high health and welfare price.

"... regardless of their ultimate cost, the rules will reduce monthly ozone levels by just 1.2 parts per billion during rush hour, says Environ. That’s equivalent to 12 cents out of $100 million or 1.2 seconds out of 32,000 years. These minuscule improvements could not even have been measured by equipment existing a couple decades ago. Their contribution to improved human health will be essentially zero."

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How Medicaid Fails the Poor

Avik Roy, writer for The Apothecary at Forbes, joins Glenn Reynolds to discuss Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor. Roy explains that most enrollments under Obamacare are in the Medicaid program, and that Medicaid is actually having a negative health impact [cites Oregon study on Medicaid outcomes among others]. Roy also references the successful Switzerland and Singapore models of universal health care insurance employing free-market principles. Hear more about the Obamacare debacle, and Roy's new book, How Medicaid Fails the Poor. (Video 10:32)

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EPA: Greenhouse Gases Hazardous to Your Health

US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 12/7/2009 by Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter - Announcement comes as big global warming conference begins in Copenhagen. ∴ U.S. environmental officials said Monday that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide endanger people's health. ∴ The so-called endangerment finding was announced by Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at an afternoon press conference. It could signal a possible first step by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. But Jackson said the agency would prefer that Congress pass legislation that would limit production of the pollutants. Read more at US News... Read More......

Can Obama and Congress Order You to Buy Broccoli?

TOWNHALL.COM, 10/21/2009 by Terry Jeffrey - Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want? Read more at Townhall.com... Read More......

H.R. 1: Health provisions slipped in without discussion

Negotiations Start On The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"
Negotiators for Congress and the White House have tentatively settled on a $790 billion price tag on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill and are working to narrow differences on individual elements of the bill.

Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama's stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version). Read the entire article by Betsy McCaughey here.

National Federation of Republican Women, CAP Alert, Week of Feburary 9, 2009

Reading list from Rush Limbaugh, 2/10/08 - Outrage Over Socialized Healh Care Hidden Inside Porkulus Bill
Bloomberg: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan - Betsy McCaughey
• Wall Street Journal: Despite Daschle, Health Reform To Be a 'Central Focus' of Obama Budget
• WT: Democrats using 'Stealth' to Re-Engineer Society with 'Stimulus' Package - Ed Koch
• Heritage.org: Comparative Effectiveness in Health Care Reform: Lessons from Abroad
• National Review: 50 De-Stimulating Facts Read More......