Commentary
California
Celebrating the Return of the Primitive
Private automobiles are no longer allowed on Market Street in San Francisco, California. The result has been an increase in bike ridership. This is, of course, being hailed as progress. So why does it look like the city is resetting the clock to a previous century? When novelist Ayn Rand ...
California
What Gives California The Right to Force Businesses to Accept Cash?
Does government have any limits on the restrictions it can place on a private company? Or are those limits confined only by the outcome of legislators’ votes? These are questions some California lawmakers might find themselves wrestling with this year. A bill introduced in the Senate in early February might ...
Commentary
No, Bernie, ‘Medicare-for-all’ won’t save money
On Feb. 24, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released a document outlining how he plans to pay for his agenda, including “Medicare-for-all.” He claims his signature health plan will save the country billions of dollars each year. That estimate rests on faulty math and flawed assumptions. Medicare-for-all would cost far more than Sanders admits and ...
Commentary
Coronavirus Just the Latest Example of U.N. Incompetence and Failure
The World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, has proposed an official name, COVID-19, for the illness caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, after the city in China where it emerged. (The new designation stands for coronavirus disease 2019, as the illness was first detected toward the end of ...
Commentary
Doctors Who Support Medicare for All Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Doctors are growing increasingly comfortable with the idea of a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The nation’s second-largest physicians group, the American College of Physicians, came out in January in support of Medicare for All. A study from BMJ, a medical journal, found that younger doctors are leaning further ...
Commentary
Bernie’s Math Problem
Anyone in earshot of a television set, or a smart phone, is undoubtedly aware that the undisputed front-runner in the Democratic Primary wants to spend more money – a lot of it. And, while these policies are economically flawed, Senator Sanders also has a fundamental math problem. Reviewing his website, there ...
Commentary
Just say no to California’s drug-making plan
California wants to get into the drug making business. Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced his intention to have the state contract with generic drug manufacturers to make drugs to sell to state residents, presumably at lower cost than they’re available on the market today. But the plan won’t deliver much ...
Commentary
Mike Bloomberg has a lot of bad ideas for health care
It took Mike Bloomberg three months and $400 million, but he finally qualified for a Democratic debate. The former New York mayor earned his place on stage in Las Vegas on Feb. 19 after surging to second place in the polls, just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. But like many wealthy hopefuls ...
California
How State Policy Makers Can Avoid It Becoming Siligone Valley
As unlikely as it seems, we could see in our lifetimes the decline of Silicon Valley, maybe the most dynamic economic and innovation machine man has ever known. Can it be avoided? Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, who’s earned Silicon Valley’s grandest fortune, said at last month’s 2020 Silicon Slopes Tech ...
Commentary
Nevada unions don’t trust ‘Medicare for all’ to manage their healthcare
Nevada’s culinary union, an influential force in the state’s upcoming caucuses, just fired a shot across the bow of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In flyers, emails, and text messages, the union warned its members that Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan would “end Culinary Healthcare.” The culinary union has good reason ...
Celebrating the Return of the Primitive
Private automobiles are no longer allowed on Market Street in San Francisco, California. The result has been an increase in bike ridership. This is, of course, being hailed as progress. So why does it look like the city is resetting the clock to a previous century? When novelist Ayn Rand ...
What Gives California The Right to Force Businesses to Accept Cash?
Does government have any limits on the restrictions it can place on a private company? Or are those limits confined only by the outcome of legislators’ votes? These are questions some California lawmakers might find themselves wrestling with this year. A bill introduced in the Senate in early February might ...
No, Bernie, ‘Medicare-for-all’ won’t save money
On Feb. 24, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released a document outlining how he plans to pay for his agenda, including “Medicare-for-all.” He claims his signature health plan will save the country billions of dollars each year. That estimate rests on faulty math and flawed assumptions. Medicare-for-all would cost far more than Sanders admits and ...
Coronavirus Just the Latest Example of U.N. Incompetence and Failure
The World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, has proposed an official name, COVID-19, for the illness caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, after the city in China where it emerged. (The new designation stands for coronavirus disease 2019, as the illness was first detected toward the end of ...
Doctors Who Support Medicare for All Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Doctors are growing increasingly comfortable with the idea of a government takeover of the U.S. health insurance system. The nation’s second-largest physicians group, the American College of Physicians, came out in January in support of Medicare for All. A study from BMJ, a medical journal, found that younger doctors are leaning further ...
Bernie’s Math Problem
Anyone in earshot of a television set, or a smart phone, is undoubtedly aware that the undisputed front-runner in the Democratic Primary wants to spend more money – a lot of it. And, while these policies are economically flawed, Senator Sanders also has a fundamental math problem. Reviewing his website, there ...
Just say no to California’s drug-making plan
California wants to get into the drug making business. Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced his intention to have the state contract with generic drug manufacturers to make drugs to sell to state residents, presumably at lower cost than they’re available on the market today. But the plan won’t deliver much ...
Mike Bloomberg has a lot of bad ideas for health care
It took Mike Bloomberg three months and $400 million, but he finally qualified for a Democratic debate. The former New York mayor earned his place on stage in Las Vegas on Feb. 19 after surging to second place in the polls, just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. But like many wealthy hopefuls ...
How State Policy Makers Can Avoid It Becoming Siligone Valley
As unlikely as it seems, we could see in our lifetimes the decline of Silicon Valley, maybe the most dynamic economic and innovation machine man has ever known. Can it be avoided? Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, who’s earned Silicon Valley’s grandest fortune, said at last month’s 2020 Silicon Slopes Tech ...
Nevada unions don’t trust ‘Medicare for all’ to manage their healthcare
Nevada’s culinary union, an influential force in the state’s upcoming caucuses, just fired a shot across the bow of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In flyers, emails, and text messages, the union warned its members that Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan would “end Culinary Healthcare.” The culinary union has good reason ...
