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March 19, 2009
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WalMart Set to Cash in on EHR Boom

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You don't get to be the world's largest retailer without having some chops. Evidently reading the Obamaic tea leaves during the 2008 campaign, WalMart set in motion a plan to market Electronic Health Record (EHR) computer systems to physicians, and in so doing has come up with a system that shaves 50 percent off the price of its competitors. Using its Sam's Club operation, the Arkansas giant ...
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March 18, 2009
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The Curious Case of Major League Baseball

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Major League Baseball, or MLB, has enjoyed a federal antitrust exemption since 1922 due to a Supreme Court's ruling that the sport did not engage in interstate commerce. Quite curious because even back then, teams had to cross state lines to play each other, but the ruling has nonetheless stayed on the books, so to speak, ever since. The ruling was reaffirmed in 1953 and again in 1972 in the C...
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March 16, 2009
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Wasteful Spending on Stimulus Projects?

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If you thought that four years late and $350 million over budget for the largely unneeded U.S. Capitol Visitor Center was bad, wait till you see what the projects flowing from the recent $787 billion stimulus package will cost. The 1931 David-Bacon Act (which obviously did nothing to shorten or alleviate the Great Depression) provides that contractors for government construction projects pay a...
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March 14, 2009
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Card Check: Canada Rejects It, We Covet It

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It's funny--and illustrative--that Democrats in the U.S. have always ached for the liberalism of our northern neighbor, which is one reason why I've been warning on these pages that health care reform, Demo-style, is nothing but a Trojan Horse for socialized medicine a la Canada. However, on one crucial issue, our U.S. liberals are not watching northern affairs closely enough. Canada once had ...
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March 13, 2009
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EFCA Could Unionize Small Businesses

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The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), commonly referred to as the Wagner Act, exempted small businesses from union organization, but the definition of small business has not been updated since 1959. The exemption ends when a small, non-retail business grosses $50,000 in a single year; for retail operations, the figure is $500,000 a year. However, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) now...
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March 12, 2009
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Dems Looking to Modify the Employee Free Choice Act?

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The business-feared, loved-by-unions Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) was introduced in both the House and the Senate on Tuesday. Passage by the House seems a done deal, but in the Senate success hinges on getting 60 votes to choke off a filibuster. With 58 (and potentially 59 with Al Franken) Democratic Senators, invoking cloture wouldn't seem like such a high hurdle, but a handful of Senate D...
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March 12, 2009
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Health Care Reform: How Gurneys Become Beds

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To be frank, I share neither the euphoria nor the enthusiasm that seem to surround the rush to "reform" health care. Of course, the optimistic aura surrounding Obama's push for reform is largely media induced, leaving us little hope that we'll see or read anything to detract from what's going on. My position is that there is no reform of health care going on; there's just a push to get governm...
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March 11, 2009
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What's Up With the UAW and Ford?

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Ford, which is in the best shape of all three American automakers and has not gotten (nor will it seek) government bailout funds, has wrung a deal out of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to cut costs in health care and in overtime and unemployment pay. Or is the shoe actually on the other foot? The UAW has typically struck a deal with one automaker that it then sets up as the gold standard...
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March 11, 2009
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China: Laboratory for EFCA-Style Unionization

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Can't blame 'em. Business owners in China's manufacturing belt, their businesses up in smoke in the worldwide recession, are fleeing the country and leaving their workers high and dry--and yuan-less--rather than cope with China's restrictive labor laws. Of course, you can also call them rats for absconding with their companies' loot while leaving their workforce with no money to survive on. Ch...
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March 10, 2009
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Personnel Concepts' White Paper Predicts the Future

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Well, not quite, but Personnel Concepts--the labor law poster pioneers--has added a white papers section to its home page, and one of the featured papers looks at labor law changes coming under Barack Obama. Prominent among the anticipated pieces of legislation is something called the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has christened "Armageddon"--the end of fr...
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