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Posted in Government Gone Wild, Health Care on Jan 23rd, 2013
Back in my early days I spent a lot of time predicting what would happen after Massachusetts passed comprehensive health care reform. It sucks being right sometimes. On the bright side, I no longer live there. He’s right about that: Health care was 23% of the state fisc in 2000, and 25% in 2006, but […]
Posted in Corporatism, Government Gone Wild, Health Care on Jan 23rd, 2013
Remember the debates leading up to the passage of Obamacare? Among the many unicorns sold to us about how ObamaCare would save money was the rapid implementation of “Electronic Medical Records.” This administration, based of course wholly on uncorrupted scientific evidence for everything they do, was heavily influenced by a 2005 RAND study which claimed […]
Posted in Competition, Economic Illiteracy, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jan 23rd, 2013
We have an article in the UK lamenting the fact that US and western nation foodies and health food advocates are driving up the price of quinoa, a grain grown primarily in poor countries. Without getting into the economics too much, the article suggests that rising world demand raises the price of the grain, making […]
