6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student
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BBC story on the Facebook policy dispute is interesting from a policy perspective. First the chronology: Facebook publishes a change in terms regarding Facebook’s “ownership” of individual data published on the site Individuals protest via social network tools Organizations, mainly
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NYT post on risks of IVF — interesting in light of efforts by the BioEthics Defense Fund to curtail IVF in light of the California octuplets story.
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Post notes several barriers to successful implementation of an EMR system for US. Although the federal government set a goal five years ago of creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014, the effort has lagged for several
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Can colleges be both efficient and serve as the incubator for future discoveries and future leaders? … public colleges, which serve two-thirds of all four-year college students, are also increasingly expensive and inaccessible, he said. Tuitions there have increased at
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Downey’s editorial cites research in NC showing that the most effective expenditure of public funds in relation to achievement is that spent in the classroom. In their High School Resource Allocation Study, Henry and Charles Thompson of East Carolina University
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Current internet policy debate seems to focus on incremental evolution of the Internet — protocols, physical layer infrastructure, security, etc. But, what if we started from scratch? Can the ROI on incremental “improvements” beat the ROI (and all the multiples
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Susan Lacettie Meyers makes some conclusive evaualations of the current education system. And, she notably states: After two decades of following public education as a journalist then a legislative policy advisor, I have witnessed no return on escalating taxpayer investment
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NYT story on rising use of ecstasy in upper class Brazil. Couple of interesting twists: If you have a college degree, you get sentenced differently. Use of illicit drugs gets you treatment Financiers of drug dealers get harsher punishment than
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Despite efforts to secure the federal territory in cyber space, the FAA finds its admin server hacked — and employee records were compromised: While the FAA was hit this time, it certainly is not alone. Uncle Sam’s main jobs database,
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So, what do you do with a $6 billion policy initiative when the agency responsible for administering $1.5 billion has had serious questions raised as to the prior performance of its management of funds designated for rural broaband? According to
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