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
Here’s a fairly dramatic encounter from this afternoon’s Suze Orman Show . "Mike" works as a credit manager selling consolidation loans for a "major banking institution." A 22-year-old MBA, Mike calls people with substantial credit card debt (owed both to his own employer and to other lenders), and tries to get them to move their unsecured debt into car or home loans with lower interest rates. Mike had written into the show because he had ethical qualms about selling people potentially disadvantageous products
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Suze Orman’s Personal Finance Advice: Quit Your Job
Here’s a fairly dramatic encounter from this afternoon’s Suze Orman Show .
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Suze Orman’s Personal Finance Advice: Quit Your Job
