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Why do men and women have a such a hard time relating to each other in a meaningful way in America today? Could our oversexed culture have anything to do with it? In the United States today, we are constantly being bombarded with sexual messages. Just think about it. Did you watch the Super Bowl […]
The quality of teaching has a big impact on student performance. But a lot of other factors are also important. Over the course of a semester student test scores in a good teacher’s class might go down or remain unchanged because of all those other factors. The scores in a bad teacher’s class might go […]
Remember when you were a kid and someone asked you if you wanted to play “fifty-two pick up” with your new deck of cards? He would throw them all into the air and you would pick them up. Fun! The health care industry today resembles this game. All of the cards have been thrown into […]
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement Thursday expressing concern with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent proposed update to the anti-conscience mandate in Obamacare. As Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, explained: [The proposal] appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, […]
Most people would place me on the political right. Yet when it comes to health care, I am more egalitarian than almost everybody on the left. I always have been. By that I mean I am more egalitarian than the defenders of the British National Health Service (NHS) and the defenders of Canada’s system of […]
The Obama Administration’s suspension of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act provisions of the Affordable Care Act halted a new federal entitlement program that was fiscally unsound. The repeal of the CLASS Act as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act provides an opportunity for a necessary discussion. The debate over the […]
Philosophers always say, define your terms. So what is a quack? Quacks are people who treat any one idea (it may be a bad idea or a good idea) as if it is the entire world. Excess is the problem. A lack of proportion is what makes someone a quack, and what makes quacks a […]
Am I the only one who thinks it is immoral to bring children into the world if you don’t have the means to support them? I must be one of the few. I rarely see anyone else make the point. Before anyone objects, let me concede up front that a lot of things in life […]
Last week John Goodman posted a brief blurb about the latest problems with :. The issue deserves a little more attention because it is an abject lesson of how health policy always fails these days. The articles from the New York Times and the RAND Corporation indicate that HIT has not lived up to expectations. […]
Since 1966, the National Rifle Association has urged the federal government to address the problem of mental illness and violence. As we noted then, “the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals,” because “elimination of the instrument by which these crimes are committed cannot […]
Most people would agree that deciding how to educate one’s children is a serious personal choice. Although some may robotically send their children off to public school, most parents don’t easily decide whether to give public schools a chance. Whether deciding to send a child to public school, taking on the obligations of homeschooling, or […]
Did you notice that in the standoff over the fiscal cliff, all the discussion was about the Bush tax cuts? Which ones would be made permanent? And for whom? There was no discussion about the ObamaCare tax increases. I think that was a huge tactical mistake on the part of the Republicans. Over and over […]