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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Stephen Baker of Newsweek, starts this week’s essay with the following line: About three minutes into his speech on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama spoke a word never before uttered in a Presidential inauguration speech: “data.”. The Obama campaign managed
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As you read the Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (Draft, it looks more like the same ole’ policy : categorize, classify, protect the most important and pray for the rest! PII should be graded by
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Post reports Berkman study challenging assertions that the internet makes children more likely to be abused than real life circumstances: “The risks minors face online are complex and multifaceted and are in most cases not significantly different than those they
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Conficker — the most recent pandemic in cyber space — is said to be connecting machines, at home, office and campuse, into botnets controlled by masters spread throught cyber space. One consultant describes the potential of conficker as: “If you’re
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Jim Wooten notes that projects funded in tough times should be “marginally useful”: Times are tough. People are out of work. Don’t take their money and buy them toys, and don’t take it to spend on programs that are marginally
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From DHS today: Cyber Security. Given the increasingly sophisticated number of threats to all areas of national cyberspace and considering the authorities provided by the Homeland Security Act, the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23/National
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CQ reports two alternatives under consideration by the Obama Administration to revise current federal stem cell policy: Obama could issue an executive order lifting the restriction — which permits federal funding for research only on those stem cell colonies extracted
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This release from DHS Secretary Napolitano indicates an opportunity to evaluate current policies and policy directions: “One of my top priorities is to unify this department and to create a common culture. These action directives are designed to begin a
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An update to the Heartland breach: The Heartland breach also showed that in spite of the adoption of more stringent standards and tougher oversight by banks and credit card companies, consumers are still vulnerable. All this is happening after credit
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Why should employees or students dare to point out deficiencies in security on college campuses when the reaction from the administration may be to terminate the discoverers instead of those responsible for the original violation of policy (i.e. leaving files
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