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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a search using the terms “is recession market failure” referred someone to this site. It is a question to study — and to discuss whether public values failure contributed to the market failure.
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A letter to the editor in the AJC (which does not support permalinks — so this link will die) raises some issues about a law in Georgia requiring a “comprehensive character education program” (see O.C.G.A. § 20-2-145). (a) The State Board
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Friedman thinks we hit the trifecta of failures with regards to the financial crisis. This financial meltdown involved a broad national breakdown in personal responsibility, government regulation and financial ethics. No time to do it now – -but need to
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So, an oil company hires a professor to write a peer reviewed article designed to prove that punitive damages “make no sense”. While writing the article, the professor concludes that greater transparency encourages “responsible corporate behavior.” However, the oil company’s
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When you have a program, such as the one described in this NYT article on private Medicare insurance, that relies on the market to solve a public value problem, and that program fails — you end up in the total
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Websites that dig for news as watchdogs As newspapers fade away, their business model is no longer viable, a new model is appearing to provide news about your governments. The article mentions several websites that display the work of these
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Friedman rightfully pops a cork over Nardelli’s spin that Detroit is asking for $25 billion to innovate, not as a bailout: It wasn’t a bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation.
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The electorate is angry and scared. Those emotions may not get much press — but I wager the emotions will drive incumbents from office in large numbers today. To fun stuff: Predictors The Redskins lost — which means the White
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A term no one wants to hear from economists. Especially when the comparison is to the burst of the Japanese economy in the 1980’s or the Great Depression. Banks and other financial institutions are reckoning with hundreds of billions of
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Aug. 8, 2005 — Oil hit a record high of $64. Gasoline hit a record high as well at $1.86 per gallon. Oct. 27, 2008 — Oil falls below $64. Gasoline is currently priced at national average pf $2.66. Remember
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