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Daily Archive for March 8th, 2010

Yep, It Passes the Cost Test …

so long as the same thing that happened in Massachusetts does not happen for the country as a whole. Notice again, that Cutler and the current health plan neither say nor do a single thing about the most important drivers of cost – guaranteed issue, community rating, bans on inter-state trading, the medical practitioners cartel, […]

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Diane Ravitch writes in tomorrow’s WSJ about her conversion away from national testing standards and charter schools: What we need is not a marketplace, but a coherent curriculum that prepares all students. And our government should commit to providing a good school in every neighborhood in the nation, just as we strive to provide a […]

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And Then What?

Almost as a passing point in a long and interesting post, Arnold Kling says: So, we should spend less on medicine and more on….what? Big-screen TV’s? smart phones? professional sports? My guess is that if Callahan got his wish and medical spending were reduced, he would not be happy with where money is spent, and […]

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From today’s WSJ: Everyone knows Democrats are planning to use the budget reconciliation process to get ObamaCare through the Senate. Less well known is that Democrats are plotting add-ons to that bill to get other liberal priorities enacted—programs that could never attract 60 votes. … One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act […]

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When Seth Andrew, a founder of Democracy Prep, set up his charter middle school in 2006, it occupied the same building as a traditional public middle school that opened the same year. “We both opened with sixth grade and about 100 kids, though we had more special-ed children and English language learners,” he says. “After […]

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Look at what has happened to the scarcity of arsenic over the past 100 years. (aside: arsenic is normally thought of as a poison, but even poisons have use. Arsenic is commonly used in pesticides, insecticides, plumbing, and a host of other uses. If you view arsenic as pure evil, then should be hoping that […]

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