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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Jason DeParle of the NYT writes about a movement promoting greater access to US spending data. “Sunshine’s the best thing we’ve got to control waste, fraud and abuse,” he said. “It’s also the best thing we’ve got to control stupidity.
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AJC article today tells us that there is a shortage of meningitis vaccine. This “shortage” is pushing the price to $186 per shot. Three years ago, a big push was made to mandate vaccinations for all freshman to protect against
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Last month, I asked what happened to the promised rate cut for malpractice insurance. Today, AP asks the same question. Guess what — in some cases, rates doubled. The largest insurer, MAG, which promised the cut, froze rates but refuses
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Robert Scoble, noted Microsoft blogger, is leaving for a new job. While at Microsoft, he pushed the traditional envelope by publicly discussing and sometimes dismissing company strategies and actions using his blog. When asked how he was able to "get
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Ok, this is where I get a little geeky. But, imagine if you will, subscribing to data providers for only data you need to feed into whatever type of analysis you fancy. As new data appears, your model is appropriately
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Why is it our government feels the need to monitor our communications to protect us from the terrorists being financed by the gasoline we buy – for which our government feels no need to create alternatives?
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Dana Blankenhorn spots an essay (Sidewalks: Paying by the stroll) by Bob Frankston satirizing efforts by the Bell Companies to charge you for access (by quality of service) to the Internet. This piece is worth a read. As a continuation of
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Here is a classic thinking question for undergraduate political science students. If you work in a government, and that government is run by officials elected by the public, are you your own boss? Discuss why and why not. So, the
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After a weekend of stories suggesting that House Speaker Hastert was wrong in decrying the FBI raid of a member's office, and revelations that the Attorney General and some Deputies threatened to quit if the President made the FBI apologize, the
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We are all going to be minute workers — some of us may be identified as such already. Wired has a piece entitled Crowdsourcing describing how this new market for labor will work. Another piece, entitled 5 rules for the new
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