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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If you have perused my posts, especially those dealing with policy and/or legislation, you will note that I make judgements on the intent of those promoting their policies. Many times, I find that my initial judgements were ill informed. Those
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Actually, the way society respects each is diametrically opposed. Dead poets, at least the good ones, rise in respect. Dead politicians (dead in the political realm, not corporeal), well, as a friend once said: No one wastes goodbyes on dead
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Found the blog of a good high school friend… She seems to have regressed to old english … but otherwise, she is dabbling with lots of Web 2.0 tools for her teaching.
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Time, or the measurement thereof, has been an important tool for the military and governments for centuries. Congress in its infinite wisdom has decided to change the date for daylight savings time switching to March 11 — 4 weeks earlier
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An editorial by the Augusta Chronicle is concerned about the costs to human freedom that may be incurred as a result of proposed abatement of global warming. Why don’t they have the same concern when it comes to the proposed
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The Georgia Constitution has this to say about who governs the University System: (b) The board of regents shall have the exclusive authority to create new public colleges, junior colleges, and universities in the State of Georgia, subject to approval
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A bill has just been introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives that revives discussion from 4 years ago, led by Mr. Horowitz, alleging that Georgia’s public colleges were led by communists and liberals and thus our students were being
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
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I was interviewed by a fifth grader who has collected interviews with a number of state legislators… Funny, a fifth grader has figured out the most effective way to show people what legislators are doing and thinking — and companies
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Dr. Milton Friedman addressed ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) last month. CSPAN saw fit to air his remarks which I saw on cable yesterday. Dr. Friedman mentioned how important it was for citizens in a democracy to possess a basic
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