Tag: Health

Will a critical mass of younger and healthier Americans decide to purchase insurance next year, or opt to pay the penalty for going uninsured instead? (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Obamacare’s design assumes insurance is a bad deal for younger population

Philip Klein · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

âFrom Colorado? Like pot? Want to be on the cover of Reason magazine?â Thatâs the pitch managing editor Katherine Mangu-Ward put up on the magazineâs website Thursday. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Libertarian magazine looking for ‘businesslike’ stoner to appear on next cover

Sean Higgins · August 16, 2013 4:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will make a decision in the next 24 hours on a sticky medical marijuana issue that could reverberate in the 2016 Republican presidential race. (AP Photos)

Chris Christie’s pot problem exacerbated by Rand Paul

Steve Contorno · August 15, 2013 4:00 am

Even with sequestration cuts, funding for the National Institutes of Health has remained far higher than in the Clinton years. (Thinkstock)

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Huffington Post: Sequestration cuts to NIH budget will usher in ‘dark age of science’

Sean Higgins · August 14, 2013 4:00 am

FLOTUS does victory dance: Kids are losing weight because of Let’s Move

Beltway Confidential

FLOTUS does victory dance: Kids are losing weight because of Let’s Move

Joel Gehrke · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

A McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York printed with calorie counts for each food item. (AP/Ed Ou)

New study proves menu labeling doesn’t work as promised

Liz Thatcher · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

A study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research Monday finds significant compression of morbidity into the period just before death in the United States. (Thinkstock)

Americans are staying healthier right up until death

Joseph Lawler · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

Thank You for Not Vaping

Ethan Epstein · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

The lingering jobs crisis following the 2008 financial crash lacks one of the few silver linings associated with previous recessions: people living healthier lifestyles. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Past recessions boosted health, but not the Great Recession

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2013 4:00 am

Pregnant Kate Middleton had two young royal escorts - husband Prince William and brother-in-law Prince Harry -when they visited a studio where the Harry Potter movies were filmed. She has apparently followed the American rules against drinking while pregnant. (AP)

Study blesses a drink a day for pregnant moms

Paul Bedard · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

$3.8B already spent setting up Obamacare, heading to over $5B

Paul Bedard · July 11, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama will delay for a year the enforcement of the employer mandate, the penalty for not offering health insurance to full-time employees. (AP image)

Obama forfeits trust by not enforcing Obamacare

Michael Barone · July 10, 2013 4:00 am