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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An excerpt of a letter signed by Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, sums the arguments: The embryonic stem cell policy initiated by President Bush has at times been criticized from both ends of
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This post by the Post needs unpacking… A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may have led to the theft of more than 100 million credit and debit card accounts, the company said today.
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California’s Imperial Valley sees the potential new rule from the Obama administration as an economic plus to support California’s $3 billion, voter approved, investment in stem cell research. However, any new rule would not result in creation of additional stem
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Stanley Fish’s column finds a rather terse description of the public expectations of higher education: In this latter model , the mode of delivery – a disc, a computer screen, a video hook-up – doesn’t matter so long as delivery
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Rumors are persisting that Georgia will seek to restrict stem cell research on pro-life grounds, no matter what fed law says… “I would assume there will be an effort to restrict embryonic stem cell research. Georgia would stake out its
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Yeah, plastic is definitely, definitely out. Information is in. Got any? Want some? Just as plastic raises concerns regarding negative environmental consequences, information raises, metaphorically speaking, similar environmental concerns as individuals and corporations stress over who controls access to information.
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Oil refiners claimed that because regulations had prevented them from building needed refineries, they could not produce the gasoline necessary to keep up with demand (and thereby mollify the price increases)? Well, now look at what the refiners are doing:
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This post is merely a bookmark to me to read this later… For most doctors, who work in small practices, an investment in electronic health records looks simply like a cost for which they will not be reimbursed. That is
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Markets depend upon information to be efficient. This NYT story on Madoff indicates that information was in short supply, and a disaster ensured. The outsize impact on the industry may have resulted largely because Mr. Madoff (pronounced MAY-doff) managed his
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Our founding fathers warned of a “tyranny of the majority“. The city of Grand Junction thought they had an idea the people would endorse — a means to fund public safety projects. However, the voters of Grand Junction failed to
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