The New York Times reports:
Accepting money from patients for operations they would otherwise receive free of charge in a public hospital is technically prohibited in this country, even in cases where patients would wait months or even years in discomfort before receiving treatment.
But no one is about to arrest Dr. Brian Day, who is […]
Archive for February, 2006
Feb28th2006
The Decline Of Canada’s Health Care System
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 5 CommentsFeb28th2006
“Again, I don’t think European hatred for the U.S. is inevitable. Elsewhere, I’ve written myself that surprisingly large numbers of Frenchmen and Germans—approximately a third—are actually pro-American. I don’t think it’s coincidental that those who most like the U.S. are often the same less educated, less wealthy, lower-middle classes who brought Thatcher and Berlusconi to […]
Feb27th2006
America’s Trade Deficit Is A Blessing
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and Myths. 1 CommentDonald Boudreaux, Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University, attempts to clear up the commonly misunderstood trade deficit:
Contrary to popular opinion, this so-called “deficit” is a blessing.
Consider that if Americans export lumber, sheetrock, and architectural blueprints to China so that people build a factory there, we’re gleeful. “Wonderful!” we proclaim. “Exports are […]
Feb27th2006
“Talk to top-level scientists and educators about the future of scientific research, and they will rarely even mention Europe. There are areas in which it is world-class, but they are fewer than they once were. In the biomedical sciences, for example, Europe is not on the map, and it might well be surpassed by much […]
Feb23rd2006
Tomorrow, Friday, at 8am in the morning I get on a plane to northern California to be in a friends wedding. I won’t get back until Sunday so no blogging Friday or throughout the weekend. I wish everybody a great weekend!!!
Feb23rd2006
In Praise Of Larry Summers
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 6 CommentsHispanic Business reports:
Until recently, Harvard University has been perhaps the most glaring example of an elite college’s failure to welcome low-income students. With an endowment of $25.9 billion — far larger than that of any other university in the U.S. or abroad — Harvard clearly has the resources to educate the poor.
Yet only about 10% […]
Feb23rd2006
“As Professor Dershowitz rightly reminds us, Summers’ resignation is a heavy blow for academic freedom in the university. Summers’ downfall was engineered by a hard-left faction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, whose hatred for him reached mythic proportions with only minute fodder. “Only at an American university campus could Mr. Summers, […]
Feb22nd2006
An Interview With Milton Friedman
Published by in Economics, Education, General and Vouchers. 1 CommentThe New Perspectives Quarterly has an interview with Milton Friedman:
NPQ | The so-called “old Europe” of France, Germany and Italy has been stagnating with high levels of unemployment. Germany—one of the last bastions of the Cold War Keynesian welfare state—now has a conservative leader, Angela Merkel.
What should be done to get Germany, and by […]
Feb22nd2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 2 Comments“He doesn’t seem the type to spin his wheels on hopeless causes, but one of his projects has been coaching principals at some of the worst-performing New York City schools. He jumps up to fiddle with a computer and print out a table of test scores, which he says indicate progress. But he also fumes […]
Feb21st2006
One of the benefits of running a charter school is that you are free from burdensome union regulations on what teachers to hire. For example, many charter schools hire uncertified teachers to teach their students. Terrence O. Moore, former professor of history at Ashland University and current principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools, a K-12 charter […]
Feb21st2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Economics and General. 2 Comments“I am afraid that “happiness research” amounts to nothing but a flimsy excuse for left-wing academics to claim that they should be given control over how the rest of us live”. –Economist Arnold Kling, in an article titled, The Happiness Police
Feb20th2006
Economics Debate: Stitching a New Safety Net
Published by in Debates, Economics, General, HealthCare and SocialSecurity. 0 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal has posted another economics debate. This time it is between Mark Thoma of EconomistsView blog and Andrew Samwick of Vox Baby blog, on the topic of Social Security, Medicare, and Health Care Reforms (No subscription needed for 30 15 days).
The debate can be found here.
My favorite parts:
We do several things […]
Feb20th2006
“The attempt to define a “living wage” in a manner divorced from one’s productivity suggests that many Americans have (perhaps unconsciously) absorbed a Marxian ethic: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Okay, I disagree, but I can believe people believe that. But this is still just a variant of […]
Feb18th2006
“The number of representation elections in American workplaces has declined sharply. And the share of these elections won by unions is down to about half, from more than 70 percent in the 1950’s. And even as employment in nonunion businesses has grown, union jobs have disappeared. Companies either moved them overseas or, overwhelmed by competition, […]
Feb17th2006
Black Families In Minneapolis Have Had Enough With Public School Failure
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 6 CommentsBlack families in Minneapolis have had enough with public school failure and are now doing something about it:
Problems abound: Last year, only 28 percent of black Minneapolis eighth-graders passed the state’s basic skills math test, and 47 percent passed the reading test. In 2004, the black high school graduation rate in the district was 50 […]
Feb17th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), ModernPolitics and Vouchers. 0 Comments“$100 million for a competitive grant program that will enable States, school districts, or non-profits to offer low-income students in chronically low-performing schools expanded educational opportunities. Students will be eligible for funding that may be used to cover some of the cost of attending the private school of their choice or receiving intensive supplemental services”. […]
