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 risk factor for AI developments. Data centers, whether or not AI is hosted by them,…
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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 notes how power is taught to be valued at Liberty, as she acknowledges: None of…
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Ms. Sadie Fields is expressing her unrighteous indignation over a Judge's ruling that the amendment to the Georgia Constitution (adopted with more than 76% approval in 2004) was improperly framed. Two quotes are worth reviewing: “We're looking to Thurbert Baker to do the right thing and vigorously defend what the legislature has done and the…
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Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the major provider of medical malpractice insurance is bragging about SLOWING the rate of increase for malpractice insurance — and MAG attributes this to the success of tort reform. The Business Chronicle does not ask the question found in this post's title. Remember, MAG put a letter on every legislator's…
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Article in Massachusetts on cutting state gas taxes has a couple of factoids of interest in Georgia: According to GasBuddy Organization Inc., which tracks retail gasoline prices, the average price in Georgia went from $3.15 a gallon for regular unleaded on Sept. 1, to about $2.56 on Sept. 20. However, that coincided with a similar…
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News story on Warner Brothers decision to use BitTorrent to distribute movies causes me to recall a discussion among CIO's in state government when a policy was proposed to block all peer-to-peer applications as such calls "served no legitimate purposes." I was given a very skeptical look when I protested on behalf of education… Now,…
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John Zogby, in an AJC article, describes political content on the Internet as : "There's no regulation. There's no objective standard for truth. There's unlimited ways to get away with just about anything," said John Zogby, a New York state-based political pollster. "It's here to stay, and it's growing by leaps and bounds every election year." And…
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To compete in this new economy, you must continually learn by: Gathering information (Aggregate) Process information (analyze/synthesize) Apply information in context (knowledge) repeat Just a note to myself as I ponder my navel this am
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Gary Hamel, director at the Woodside Institute, pens a column in the WSJ about Google and its growth rate. In his conclusion, he writes: Google seems to have grasped the new century's most important business lesson: The capacity to evolve is the most important advantage of all.
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He posts at Voic.us a scathing criticism on the efforts of Georgia newspapers to use the web. He is right. Enuf said. On to the roast!
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Several authors have talked about the long history of the Bush family and oil. Kevin Phillips in his latest book, American Theocracy, makes no bones about the fact that the current Middle East policy is in fact a geopolitical strategy devised by Dick Cheney on behalf of the Oil Industry in the late 90's. But,…
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For all the talk in the political sphere of taking personal responsibility in health care, precious little is being done to prepare people to learn about healthcare options. However, such lack of discussion doesn't negate the argument that self-education on health issues works. An obituary for Dr. Tom Ferguson, found in today's New York Times,…
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