It's Almost Impossible to Find Out the Cost of a Medical Procedure. This Company Is Trying to Change That.

The Daily Signal
April 25, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where transparency in health care costs hasn't been the priority Americans were promised. Melissa Quinn profiles a company that hopes to be part of changing that. A top official in the Obama Energy Department comes clean on climate change propaganda. Chris White reports. The reality of communism isn't kid stuff, Jarrett Stepman argues in lamenting a new book. Plus: Arthur Milikh on the dangers of a press that fails to do its job, and Michael Sargent on flying friendlier skies.
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It's Almost Impossible to Find Out the Cost of a Medical Procedure. This Company Is Trying to Change That.

"By committing to not taking advertisements or allowing for providers of care to bid up, we can promise the results are data-driven for consumers," Amino founder and CEO David Vivero says of his company, which mines data on costs and doctors from billions of health insurance claims.

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Commentary

'Communism for Kids' Turns Deadly Ideology Into a Fairy Tale

It is bewildering why MIT Press would publish a book that cutesies up the political creed that gave the world Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and many more of the most prolific mass murderers.

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Commentary

A Free Press Should Liberate Minds, Not Enslave Them

Less and less, it seems, is the press concerned with the duty of preserving and bolstering political and intellectual liberty.

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News

Former Obama Official Says Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats to Influence Policy

"What you saw coming out of the press releases about climate data, climate analysis, was, I'd say, misleading, sometimes just wrong," he says of official statements.

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Commentary

Some Ways Free Trade and Economic Freedom Help the Poor

Rather than hurting the poor, the removal of international trade barriers allows millions of people to escape poverty.

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Commentary

How to Improve Airline Travel: Cut Out Washington's Meddling

A bipartisan proposal in Congress would empower airports to raise their own funds for improvements by lifting the cap imposed by lawmakers on local airport user fees.

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