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OPINION: Congress Is Focused on Health Care…Again

[This article was coauthored with Emily Evans, a Managing Director in charge of health policy research at Hedgeye Risk Management.] Their record isn’t just spotty; it is downright awful. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 was designed to prevent “patient dumping” by hospitals of emergent patients without insurance. Then there is … Read more

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ROPER: The Left Preaches “Affordability.” LOL!

As we edge toward the second year of the legislative biennium in Vermont, politicians on the Left have glommed onto the word “affordability” – a long-time campaign theme on the Right – in an unbelievable attempt to make it their own. I say unbelievable, but if the New York mayoral race was any indication, at … Read more

KLAR: Days of Reckoning for Obamacare

High deductibles and administrative bloat have crippled the scam The nation was held hostage in the 43-day government shutdown over Obamacare, with Democrats shrieking that people would die without continued government subsidies. Yet the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is siphoning federal dollars like a bureaucratic sinkhole and appears to be as unsustainable as a Ponzi … Read more

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Morning Update: Schools Hit With Million Dollar Bills

Today on the GT Morning Update, schools across the state receive an unpleasant surprise as their healthcare co-op drops a bomb on their budgets. Cited Sources: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-10-01/school-districts-look-at-savings-and-hiring-freezes-to-cover-a-30-million-health-care-billhttps://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-schoolcare-health-care-costs-2025/68100066https://www.schoolcare.org/about-backgroundhttps://www.wmur.com/article/loudon-road-concord-nh-deadly-pedestrian-crash-vehicle/68833079?brzu=913f4a72ca55a24932f3df52bc2944de980dd0c152eedd992eda89719fc7bf00&lctg=653a524caf4d16004965d2e5 Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to … Read more

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UNDERWOOD: The Democrats Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Republicans…

With Democrats claiming that the government has shut down because Republicans don’t want to deal with health care, it’s time for a reminder that if Democrats really want to provide subsidized health care to people who think that’s a good idea, they don’t need Republicans to do that:   If the UK can implement a single-payer … Read more

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MACDONALD: Skip The Insurer, Try Direct Primary Care Instead

I knew there were providers offering medical health care services for cash at a discount because it removed all the middlemen. It was you, the doctor, and the service. What I did not know, until recently, was that there is something called Direct Primary Care. Same idea, easy-to-understand name, but it can operate like a … Read more

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MacDonald: Before We Give Them Our Permission to Die …

The UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC Psych) has taken an unusual position on an Assisted Dying Bill before parliament. Unlike many in the US and Canada, the RC Psych has chosen to be cautiously neutral while disagreeing with politicians and advocates that this is the ultimate expression of empathy. When people are miserable, particularly … Read more

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Does This Mean Planned Parenthood Is Breaking the Law?

Planned Parenthood (PP) does a few things well. It ends pregnancies and chases taxpayer dollars. The organization overpays executives, dumps obscene sums into lobbying to get more tax dollars, and runs as a non-profit NGO that pays no taxes. And it complains about funding. In recent years, it jumped on the drug-our-children-train, offering gender services … Read more

Action Alert: Dartmouth Hitchcock Denies Transplant Over COVID Jab

We’ve heard stories about transplant and other patients being denied care for refusing a COVID-19 injection in the past. It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. But not at Dartmouth Hitchcock. It is reportedly denied a life-saving transplant to a patient (Dec 23, 2024) because she never received a COVID-19 injection. Yes, in 2025. … Read more

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A Quarter Century of Democrat Control in VT …

As we reach the quarter-century mark in the new millennium, it’s worth looking back on what the politics of this era have done for (or, spoiler alert, “to”) Vermont. First, some important historical context: The last time Vermont Republicans had a majority in the Senate was 1996. The last time Vermont Republicans had a majority … Read more

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Silly Me …

The Left is always yammering about “Reproductive Healthcare,” which ALWAYS requires Government intervention, even as the baby killers keep saying that only women and doctors should be involved in such a decision to kill a baby.

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Supermajority Votes for Even Higher Health Insurance Costs

Ask people why Vermont is unaffordable, and health insurance is one of the main pillars of our unaffordability crisis, along with education property taxes, the cost of housing, and energy prices. These highly regulated by our legislature plans go up every year by amounts far in excess of inflation. For 2024 alone, the Green Mountain … Read more

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The Future of Obama Care and America

The insurance company CEO reflected on how Obamacare had delivered everything his industry could have hoped for. The new massive bureaucracy had strengthened his industry’s monopoly on private healthcare dollars.

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Seven Reasons to Abandon the Public Health System

Despite the numerous permanent problems faced by public healthcare systems, a significant number of people (such as citizens, politicians, and doctors) still seem to deem them necessary and believe that the problems associated with them can be solved by, for example, better management, increased expenditure, or central planning.

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The Medical Career Lifestyle: 5 Tips For Future Nurses

Every year, thousands of young adults and many mid-career professionals decide to become licensed nurses. Why do they do it? Besides the fact that there always seems to be a shortage of qualified workers in the nursing field, the pay is excellent, and new entrants to the discipline can choose the place where they wish … Read more

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