As the lazy, hazy Summer of Recovery melts into a sere and yellow Fall of Employment, you may be wondering: How is it that one of the costliest economic interventions in history failed to make any serious dent in unemployment? While the dynamics of federal stimulus spending in job non-creation have been widely examined , some are still puzzled by the “failure” of the private sector to create jobs. Free marketers like to point to the punishing restrictions on hiring private employers face and to the uncertainty of businesses that are holding off expansions because they’re worried about changes in government policy.
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Greedy Capitalist Refuses to Create Jobs
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John Goodman of The National Center for Policy Analysis makes an important point about innovation in health care : Wherever there is third-party payment, the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient outcomes are only marginal. Wherever there is no third-party reimbursement, innovators are focused on ways to lower costs and raise quality.
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How Health Care Innovation Works
• An NSA whistleblower is indicted for leaking info to the media.
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Reason Morning Links: Tent Cities, Rubber Rooms, and Hemp
Religious disputes in the news : A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “Mark of the Beast,” and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion…. The U.S.
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The Myth of Fingerprints
Ezra Klein, noting the latest insurance industry study showing that insurance premiums are likely to increase if health-reform passes, writes : This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people who most need health-care insurance aren’t able to afford it, or in some cases, aren’t able to convince anyone to sell it to them.
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You May Hate the Player, But the Game Deserves the Blame
Ezra Klein, noting the latest insurance industry study showing that insurance premiums are likely to increase if health-reform passes, writes : This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people who most need health-care insurance aren’t able to afford it, or in some cases, aren’t able to convince anyone to sell it to them. Now that arrangement is ending and they’re scared that they can’t provide an affordable product to the people who need it
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You May Hate the Player, But the Game Deserves the Blame
Times economic columnist David Leonhardt writes an amazingly perceptive article today about how competition and choice could spark real reform by transforming the health insurance market. A few choice tidbits: Consider the following health insurance plan. It refuses to pay for certain medical care and then doesn’t offer a clear explanation
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Another Sign of the End Times: Health Insurance Competition Advocated on the Front Page of the New York Times
Times economic columnist David Leonhardt writes an amazingly perceptive article today about how competition and choice could spark real reform by transforming the health insurance market. A few choice tidbits: Consider the following health insurance plan. It refuses to pay for certain medical care and then doesn’t offer a clear explanation.
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Another Sign of the End Times: Health Insurance Competition Advocated on the Front Page of the New York Times
A Boston cop who was suspended for calling Henry Louis Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in a mass email insists, "I didn’t mean it in a racist way." Officer Justin Barrett, who sent the message to a bunch of his buddies in the National Guard as well as The Boston Globe , says "the words were being used to characterize behavior, not describe anyone." He allows that it was a "poor choice of words" but says, "I did not mean to offend anyone." His main point, he says, is that people are inappropriately injecting race into the debate over Gates’ arrest.
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Why Does This Banana-Eating Jungle Monkey Have to Make Everything About Race?
The Washington Post has a front page article today on the future of rationing in health care. The article opens: The question came from a Colorado neurologist
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What’s Rationing and Editing the Post
