Topic: Barack Obama

August 28, 2015

Friday Facts: August 27, 2015

It’s Friday! Events September 16: Health Connect South 2015 takes place at the Georgia Aquarium. This amazing daylong program highlights health collaborations and innovations throughout the Southeast, with a special […]

August 21, 2015

Friday Facts: August 21, 2015

It’s Friday! Events October 15: Early Bird Rate applies until September 4 for the Sixth Annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum. Joining the list of experts: Logan Pike, co-author of the […]

August 7, 2015

Snake Oil in the Clean Power Plan

The Clean Power Plan is akin to letting a condemned man choose his method of execution: One way or another, it’s the end. By Benita M. Dodd “The most terrifying […]

August 3, 2015

News Release: Clean Power Plan ‘Cleaning out Consumers’ Wallets’

GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release August 3, 2015 Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050 or Clean Power Plan ‘Cleaning out Consumers’ Wallets’ Atlanta – Kelly McCutchen, […]

July 21, 2015

Checking Up On Health: July 21, 2015

What’s cheapest for baby delivery and inpatient stays? Hint: NOT a nonprofit hospital. Health Policy News and Views Compiled By Benita M. Dodd The Internal Revenue Service’s tax subsidies for […]

July 17, 2015

Friday Facts: July 17, 2015

Events Join us in Savannah on July 29! Just 10 days to the registration deadline (July 27) for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s annual Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day event, […]

July 10, 2015

Friday Facts: July 10, 2015

It’s Friday! Events Join us in Savannah on July 29! The deadline is July 27 to register for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s annual Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day event, […]

July 3, 2015

Friday Facts: July 3, 2014

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, there must be a way of doing it.” – Nicholas Winton, who died this week […]

June 26, 2015

Friday Facts: June 26, 2015

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “It is simply true: America’s greatest untapped resource is the human capital trapped in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. These people – these children – represent […]

June 24, 2015 • Blog

A Reality Check on King v. Burwell and Health Care Subsidies

The great majority of Georgians get their insurance from government or their employer. As of 2014, only 6 percent of Georgians held an individual policy or a policy bought on the federally operated exchange. […]

June 5, 2015

Health Care Proposal Improves With Age

It is responsible for Congressional Republicans to take all the time and space they need to develop their alternative for the next president’s consideration. By John R. Graham You’ve got […]


May 15, 2015

Friday Facts: May 15, 2015

It’s Friday! Events June 23-25: The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism’s Sixth Annual IHC Forum & Expo in Atlanta highlights the innovations and changes in health and benefits. Register by May […]

May 14, 2015

‘The Poor Always Pay When There’s Austerity’

Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute participates in a panel discussion on poverty with President Obama. Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute participated in a May 12, 2015 panel […]

April 24, 2015

Friday Facts: April 24, 2015

It’s Friday!  Social media: The Foundation’s Facebook page has 2,388 “likes.” Please share it to help us reach 2,400 “likes” in our 24th year in Georgia! Join us on twitter.com/gppf […]




March 6, 2015

Friday Facts: March 6, 2015

It’s Friday! Events March 18: “Federalism, The Rule of Law and Regulatory Excess,” is the topic of the Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast with Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens. $30. Find out […]


February 24, 2015

Checking Up On Health: February 24, 2015

ObamaCare, vaccination accusations and why your doctor’s late. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Dealing with insurance companies in the ObamaCare era has become convoluted and […]

February 10, 2015

Checking Up On Health: February 10, 2015

Measles comes to Georgia and more. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Georgians learned this week that the state has its first confirmed case of measles […]

January 30, 2015

Expand Health Care, Not Government

Medicaid needs reform, not expansion. By Nina Owcharenko It’s official: Indiana has given in and adopted ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion. Before jumping into the weeds of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion agreement with […]

January 27, 2015

Checking Up On Health: January 27, 2015

Upcoming event with Attorney General Sam Olens and updates about ObamaCare, telehealth and the EPA. Health Policy News and Views By Benita M. Dodd As the U.S. Supreme Court mulls a […]

January 9, 2015

Friday Facts: January 9, 2015

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “The (state) Constitution clearly says that all taxes derived from the sale of motor fuel has to be put on transportation … so I think […]

December 12, 2014

Friday Facts: December 12, 2014

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “My primary objection to the amendment was a concern that for-profit charter school management companies that had showered campaign dollars on our state’s politicians would […]

December 2, 2014

Checking Up On Health: December 2, 2014

While you were preparing for Thanksgiving, ObamaCare was changing. Again. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Oops, they did it again. And even I missed it […]

November 21, 2014

Friday Facts: November 21, 2014

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” […]

November 18, 2014

Checking Up On Health: November 18, 2014

Guess who’s cashing in on health care for stupid American voters? Health Care News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd I had this visual of net “neutrality” today. It’s […]

November 11, 2014

Checking Up On Health: November 11, 2014

ObamaCare Obfuscation: The plot thickens. Health Care News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd You’re stupid. Don’t sweat all this complicated gubmint stuff.  This week’s big health care story […]
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