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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LA Times article highlights how uninformed Congress is when addressing key technology issues this year. The following is a candidate for the “Understatement” of the Year award: “To our industry and our customers, very important issues are being decided today
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Seems BP ignored maintenance issues on the Alaskan pipeline for 7 years. Didn’t matter that record profits were swelling the ole bank accounts. Read this article — if you as an individual had committeed these “sins”, how long could you
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That’s right — even though less then 25% of Georgians will vote (that is the topic of an essay on patriotism or the lack thereof — not to mention disrespect for the men and women fighting terrorism – but, wait,
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Computerworld has done analysis on future of jobs in IT. Here is a telling comment: In 2010, there will be a whole lot more information floating around. Customers and regulators will expect IT to know what is known, protect what
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Seems Harvard Stem Cells are more popular than US approved Cells… meanwhile, Gov. Perdue’s appointees to the Georgia Cord Blood Commission have been announced. Impressive list. California research on stem cells continues to draw big money. But, if Ralph Reed
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Time Magazine has a book review of , The Language of God by Francis Collins. The reviewer notes how Collins maps his arguments for a middle ground between atheists and neo-christian conservatives on the issue of evolution. I think Collins’
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We (the royal universal population of netizens) use the web to share photos, videos, audio (music and speech), data, thoughts and many, many private data points. Why can’t our government (and it is ours — in fact, we are the
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An editorial viewpoint in this week’s Business Chronicle urges Georgia to build a pipeline from the LNG facility off Savannah for the following reasons: Bring more liquid natural gas to Georgia. We need to take advantage of the Elba Island
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From Friday’s San Francisco Herald: In other Nymex trading, August natural gas futures fell 14.1 cents to settle at $5.523 per 1,000 cubic feet — the lowest close since Sept. 27, 2004, when prices finished at $5.262. The United States
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Last Labor day, I did something I thougth I would never do — buy natural gas on a fixed rate. After reading an article in the Wall Street Journal noting the futures prices of natural gas at better than $1.80
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