Posted in You Can't Have it Both Ways on Sep 28th, 2009
Rep. Kennedy is getting himself into a nice twisty pretzel too: “So, obviously, for the full effectiveness of the person, it’s to their benefit to have everything on a record, but it’s going to be totally up to the individual,” said Kennedy. “We’re not going to get people to fully buy into this if they […]
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Posted in Health Care on Sep 28th, 2009
Tort and medical malpractice issues amount to small potatoes in the US Health care “system.” In other words, there are bigger fish to fry if you are a policy-wonk. In my world, of course, no fish need frying – but that makes me an astro-turfing radical.
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Posted in Price System on Sep 28th, 2009
We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. We find that VKT increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra VKT: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in transportation intensive production activity; and an inflow of new residents. The provision […]
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Posted in Paternalism, Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2009
When I first saw this headline, I thought that the EU government was trying to do something about externalities. It turns out I was dead wrong. The EU hopes to set limits on the volume of MP3 players not because the loud volume played by some is a distraction (pollution in fact) to innocent bystanders. […]
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Posted in Health Care on Sep 28th, 2009
That’s a bumper sticker we saw at the Naples Grape festival this weekend. Nothing objectionable about wanting reform – but I suspect the person driving that car would not like the bumper sticker a friend of mine plans on printing up: Single Payer Health Care Now! …You pay for yours, I’ll pay for mine…” HT […]
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I enjoy discovering the many contradictory positions of folks that hold particular views, and that are not willing to follow the logical consistency of such views. Today’s edition comes from me thinking about the “Buy Local” movement and then thinking about the current fad in promoting “Green Jobs.” The buy local crowd is quick to […]
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