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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If you are going to make sound decisions regarding your welfare, you need access to information. So, why does a government that supports increasing self-responsibility on decisions such as education, health and welfare insist on hiding the good data on issues like “offshoring“? The summary report, titled “Six-Month Assessment of Workforce Globalization in Certain Knowledge-Based…
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Is going to be heard in Room 133 of the Capitol shortly. The Christian Coalition is making a strong push to get the bill moving again. Records and documents from the service aren’t subject to open records… cute , you can’t audit the services to see if they are doing what they are supposed to…
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There are a number of individuals outside the Capitol today, protesting SB 529, the immigration bill which passed yesterday. A story on the AP newswire indicates leadership’s desire to avoid the public opposed to the bill drove the decision to hurry the bill to a vote yesterday.
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We have maybe two days left in this legislative session. Some bills that have struggled to survive are begining to find new life. SB 596 – A bill that started out banning cloning, now currently names an already existent blood bank. A definition change was made in committee and the bill may be available for…
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That is the formula found in Friedman’s column today. My guess is that we’re at the start of a global convergence in education: China and India will try to inspire more creativity in their students. America will get more rigorous in math and science. And this convergence will be a great spur to global growth…
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Pip Coburn of Coburn Ventures opines in his columen for Always On about the need for “being prepared” to handle any contingency in the digital age. This is the Digital World and I am not a Native. I am in little position to “prepare” my eight-year-olds, but rather they will soon teach me—I hope. I’m…
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Scoble relates a comment from a blogger who questions Microsoft’s ability to “wrap its head” around the concept of Web 2.0 while it considers its users “customers” not “creators”. Kaliya, Identity Woman, says that to Microsoft we are just customers. “It seems to me that their language regarding those of us who use their stuff – customers. Individuals…
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A column in Always On points out how the trend in information needs for healthcare, career development, and life will support continuous education. Lifelong learning will be a core fundamental to anybody in business in the future. Continuing education will be part of this, but learning new skills and adapting to a global marketplace in…
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I didn’t know Mr. Moyers was a Baptist Minister. I do subscribe to his beliefs as annunciated in an article in Winston Salem: Like a revival preacher, Moyers called others to join in the “heresy” of confronting those who have managed to “subvert democracy in the name of God and greed.” We must, he said,…
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We have heard the phrase often that “ignorance of the law” is no defense. But, at what point, ethically, morally and legally, is government obligated to inform you of the law. How much effort should government expend to insure that you the consumer, parent, business owner, student, etc, understand the implications of new legislation and…
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