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ALEC wants to provide ideas of how legislators can act next, said task force private-sector Chairman Bartlett Cleland, IPI policy counsel. "It is critically important for the future of healthcare that state legislators start understanding what they can do and start to act, so we can drive down healthcare costs and get healthcare to more people."

Apparently when President Obama promised, “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan.  Period,” he was only referring to federal employees and himself. This kind of hypocrisy goes a long way toward explaining why the American people have become so cynical about politics.

After President John F. Kennedy failed to cut income tax rates, President Lyndon Johnson and Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd successfully pushed through the 1964 cuts in personal and corporate income tax rates.

Oklahoma is still fighting ObamaCare, and using a very solid argument for doing so.  If the state is successful, it will largely defund ObamaCare in the states that did not set up their own exchange. 

The American Legislative Exchange Council will look at draft model legislation restricting warrantless cellphone tracking. "From the private sector, one thing we enjoy is a round of 'future think,'" IPI's Bartlett Cleland said, cautioning against focusing on the "tyranny of the immediate."

Research from Spotify has claimed that although the festival season increases demand for artists’ music, it leads to a rise in its acquisition through unauthorised channels.

The Institute for Policy Innovation blasted recording artist Justin Bieber for a tweet that asked for a pirated copy of an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas.

Healthcare experts questioned President Barack Obama’s claim Thursday that Obamacare-mandated health insurance exchanges will actually drive down insurance costs, contending that he is making bad comparisons and that costs are increasing.

Health care could become cheaper and more efficient with the full integration of technology.

The Senate bill would likely cost millions of low-income Americans their jobs because of the economic advantage it gives to hiring newly legalized workers instead.