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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That is what the Selig Center for Economic Growth says. Mexicans in Georgia paid about $317 million in state taxes in 2004, according to a report by the University of Georgia’s Selig Center for Economic Growth. The report was presented at a conference Wednesday hosted by the Mexican Consulate General in Atlanta and Emory University.…
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Column for Wired takes Christian Right groups to task for not telling the whole story on the “success rate” for non-embryonic stem cell research.
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Rusty from Georgia writes in the Knoxville Sentinel about the low security used for the email server servicing Ralph Reed’s campaign. So he asks: Can someone who can’t even run an e-mail server preside over the state Senate? And, speaking of e-mail, Jay Bookman takes Reed to task regarding his lapse of ethics and the…
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Article by Leslie Walker of the Washington Post on concerns over the New AT&T controlling content on the Internet: EBay said restricted, or “pay for play,” Internet systems will increase costs for all Internet users, and some of the 90 million U.S. eBay users have started asking their legislators for “network neutrality” protections, said Hani…
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Would you consider it a fair, nay, even an entertaining race for a Model T to challenge an F-22? That is the disadvantage government regulators face as they try to enforce 20th century regs and laws on 21st century organizations using the 19th century model of bureaucracy the agencies employ. See the LA Times article,…
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The Post notes the 70th birthday of the Federal Register. Of particular interest to me, is the section discussing how Justice Brandeis may have spurred creation of the Register: Legal experts and historians who have studied the genesis of the register, modeled after England’s Rules Publication Act of 1893, credit Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis…
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Legend has it that AT&T, when asked to submit a proposal on expanding the early version of the Internet during the 80’s, said “Why would we build our direct competitor?”. AT&T then spent the next 20 years missing what the consumer wanted, and found itself stripped of its greatest assets, for sale on the auction…
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I apologize — I realize I started some interesting stuff — then faded out. I ended up in the middle of the stem cell debate (SB 596) and had little time to “blog” the hearing (it is difficult to write while at the same time participating in the debate). But, I did take good notes……
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I apologize — I realize I started some interesting stuff — then faded out. I ended up in the middle of the stem cell debate (SB 596) and had little time to “blog” the hearing (it is difficult to write while at the same time participating in the debate). But, I did take good notes……
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Room 307 isn’t quite as crowded as before — except we have the wire services and AJC photo journalists here. Channel 2 has a crew and that is about all for the media. A new substitute is out so the current link is not good. Feb 28 2006 SB 529 Senate Public Safety Hearing Kemp:…
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