Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, corporate practices, entrepreneurialism, health care, insurance, law, markets, medicare, misinformation/propaganda, politics, psychology, research discussion, wealth, tagged Africa, atomic bomb, ban, bankrupcy, black market, Britain, Canada, capitalism, China, Communism, congress, CT scan, diabetes, doctors, Dubai, England, entreprenuer, excise tax, food pyramid, GDP, health care, Health Maintenance Organization, HMO, HR 676, human rights, immigration, income tax, India, Israel, Japan, John Conyers, malpractice, Marxism, medicare, Mexico, Michael Moore, peso, physicians, primary care, Russia, Sicko, single-payer, Socialism, Stalin, Stalinism, U.S. Treasury, United Kingdom, United States National Health Insurance Act, universal health care, USNHI on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On January 27, 2008, U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) introduced a new version of a previously unsuccessful bill before Congress that would turn America’s health care system into a socialized, not-for-profit, singer-payer system. Previous iterations of the bill had few co-sponsors (25 in 2003), and the current version (H.R. 676), has gained a modicum [...]
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Posted in entrepreneurialism, health care, insurance, markets, research discussion, wealth, tagged A/R, accounts receivable, billing, bills, bounty hunting, cash network, Cheryl Hall, clinic, collections, Dallas Morning News, doctor, Doctorpricing.com, emergency room, financial, health care, Health Savings Account, hospital, hsa, insurance, John R. Thomas, McKinsey, medicine, MedSynergies, metaphor, military, patients, payer, physician, provider, third-world, uninsured, University of Texas, wealth on February 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A solution for America’s uninsured always seems financially unsustainable. Sure, other countries have it, but they don’t have 300 million people, vast disparities in household incomes and general wealth, a third-world country next-door neighbor with a broken fence latch, and a military.
Well, thanks to the embarassing inefficiencies present in our current health care system, the [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, corporate practices, employee benefits, entrepreneurialism, insurance, law, tagged doctor, insurance, hsa, NY Times, health care, Socialism, New York Times, employee, welfare, Ninth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, San Francisco, CA, California, appeal, small business, health savings accounts, Healthy San Francisco, burden, Daniel Scherotter, Golden Gate Restaurant Association, GGRA.org, conflict of laws, Supreme Court, dicta, governments on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The title of this post is a prediction rather than a description. The New York Times reports that a three judge panel from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the city of San Francisco, CA a temporary reprieve from a lower court ruling that would’ve prevented the city from forcing small business owners [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, corporate practices, entrepreneurialism, health care, law, markets, misinformation/propaganda, politics, psychology, tagged Adam Smith, American, American Idiot, Arab, Arabic, Bill Gross, blow, Bush Administration, capitalism, cocaine, Communism, congress, David R. Henderson, Democrats, doctor, Dubai, economist, ego, Enron, false idol, free market, George Bush, globalization, government, Green Day, guilt, health care, hedge fund, Hillary Clinton, Hoover Institute, hosptial, innovation, IRS, jealously, Liar's Poker, Libertarians, Lindsay Lohan, markets, Michael Lewis, New York Times, nurse, NYTimes.com, paternalism, Peter Goodman, PIMCO, politicians, politics, regulation, Republicans, Sarbanes-Oxley, Socialism, Stanford, tax, tongue-in-cheek, trader, Trojan Horse, Vicadin, welfare, William Gross, Worldcom on January 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Peter Goodman of the New York Times writes an interesting retrospective of free markets entitled “The Free Market: A False Idol After All?“ The article’s basic conclusion is that unfettered free markets (unhampered by regulation)…systems merely based upon ideology, cannot stand without some basic rules of government. And I don’t disagree. In the short run, [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, bioehtics, entrepreneurialism, health care, law, markets, medicare, politics, research discussion, wealth, tagged doctor, hospital, nurse, consumer, government, medicare, physician, congress, public, medical, competition, patient, innovation, health care, wealth, American, economics, contraception, orthopedic, Harvard, budget, cardiology, family doctor, BBC, Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Mercedes, Benz, S-Class, sedan, privilege, African, automotive, cruise control, infrared camera, night vision, rural, seatbelt, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, ESC, satnav, mainstream, laboratory, safety, marketplace, metaphor, specialty hospital, internist, general practitioner, frontier, status-quo, research, study, prototype, Ashok Roy, Heritage Foundation, moratorium, unfair competition, Regina Herzlinger, MedPAC, HHS, mortality, costs, lobbyist, death sentence on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s a really cool show on BBC America called “Top Gear.” It’s a witty, irreverent, brutally honest car show hosted by three dry-witted Brits: Jeremy Clarkson (blog here), Richard Hammond, and James May. Last season they road tested the new Mercedes S-Class (video clip). The S-Class is the big, expensive standard example [...]
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Posted in Communism/Socialism, entrepreneurialism, markets, wealth, tagged business, Call of the Entrepreneur, China, Communism, Communist, Democracy, despot, documentary, economics, economy, film, free, government, Hershey, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, Mao Zedong, market, monopoly, Next Magazine, People's Republic, reward, risk, Socialism, Socialist on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s a fantastic new documentary film, The Call of the Entrepreneur, which is currently touring major cities with limited special previews. The makers of the film expect it to be released (most likely in independent film houses) shortly after the tour. The film follows three entrepreneurs whose businesses range from small and rural to very [...]
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