Over a Orcinus, Sara has a great series on leadership that has gotten me thinking about America’s history of leadership. Read it here, here, here and here.
Sara makes an important point. Political systems have a life cycle - they begin as a solution to a set of problems. They function well for [...]
Okay, here’s the deal. I have ten dollars ($10). I’m going to pair you with someone you don’t know - call you Ike and Mike for lack of a better name. I’m going to give the other person the $10 and tell them they have to share it with you but . . . They [...]
Over at Washington Monthly, Kevin Drum highlights an article in TNR comparing US and European cancer care. The article does some apples to apples comparisons between the US and several European nations and concludes:
[The authors] were kind enough to respond when I contacted them. “Overall,” I asked, “was one country significantly and consistently better than [...]
I have been using a borrowed lap top this week - brand new, loaded with the latest version of Windows. On monday, I had to log into a website, enter some information and download something else. It worked more or less - but I had to turn off the virus protection to do [...]
US Health System Ranks Last Compared to Other Countries: Studies
In today’s Agence France Presse, the news was posted that the richest country in the world ranks last in providing universal healthcare to its people. Not only that, the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
“Our failure to ensure health insurance for [...]
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