Doug Badger is a senior fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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The New York Times warns of rising hospitalizations from the delta variant, and The Atlantic opines that the omicron variant’s emergence augurs “the pandemic of… Read More
LawCommentary
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated. You may be among them. There’s just one… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Moderate and left-wing congressional Democrats continue to wrangle over the details of their partisan $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill, but there’s one thing they agree on:… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Despite $9 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus from the federal government, America has an employment problem. The Labor Department estimates that 10.4 million jobs… Read More
Health CareCommentary
“Look, we’re the United States of America,” President Joe Biden said, concluding his speech announcing his latest COVID-19 vaccination plan. “There’s nothing—not a single thing—we’re… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “universal indoor masking of all students age 2 and older.” There’s just one problem: The leading study… Read More
Health CareCommentary
It’s summer, and that means a fresh wave of stories about COVID-19 in Florida. Last year, the press fixated on the state’s rising case and… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The federal government continues to offer garbled COVID-19 messages that undermine its credibility and sow confusion about the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Mike Enzi was a conservative in ideology and temperament, a soft-spoken son of the West who shunned partisan vitriol and sought compromise on policy, but… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Liberals have long aspired to a single-payer health care system that would eliminate private health insurance companies altogether. As such, it’s incongruous that 113 sponsors… Read More
