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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Here’s a synopsis of the problem. People are increasingly disengaging themselves from government (local, state, and federal). As they become more disengaged, there is a growing dissonance between public values and public policy (i.e. policy elites command the agenda, public
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Do markets really fail, if the failure is really in the fact that the financial system had the wrong belief? In other words, the market does note suffer a failure simply because the model you use to predict market performance
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When the two failures occur simulatanously, you have a serious problem. See What you don’t know about a drug can hurt you in the WSJ. “What’s happening in oncology is happening in all other fields of medicine,” says study co-author
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Adam Frank, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate – examines division of science and religion — background for public values/discourse and science policy John Kenneth Gailbraith, The Great Crash of 1929 — a classic on the causes…
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Received word I passed my field exam. We pause for a moment to celebrate…. “YEA!”. That’s enough celebrating, on to the dissertation proposal.
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies is delivering a report, “Securing CyberSpace for the 44th President,” which notes, among other things, : “We believe that cyberspace cannot be secured without regulation,” The report, which offers guidance to the Obama
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Change.gov represents President-elect Obama’s efforts to involve everyone in his efforts to change government. Can this approach work? {Note to self — study this}
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Or more of what you don’t know will hurt you. Seems we will have even less science journalism: CNN is eliminating its seven-person unit covering science, the environment, and technology, saying its “Planet in Peril” programs do the trick. Curtis
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This blog entry describes how and why opaqueness is a must on Wall Street and notes the obvious — that a drive to maintain informational advantage frustrated attempts to regulate (and continues to do so) dangerous practices of asymmetry. Transparency
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While the author of this article is focusing on the “privacy” issues arising from research (Reality mining) using data found with new technologies, I think he highlights a means to battle information asymmetries (IA). IA leads to situations including moral
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