Should a firm possess the right to impose its values on its employees? In providing discriminate health insurance benefits, firms can effectively influence what medical treatment their employees have access to. This is a biproduct of the system in place in which private health insurance (for myriad reasons I won’t even delve into now) is […]
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Free Rice - Build Your Vocabulary and Feed the Poor
Published by January 1st, 2008 in Miscellaneous, Education and Healthcare. 0 CommentsOn October 7, 2007, Free Rice was brought into the internet to help feed the poor. It features a vocabulary building game where you match increasingly harder words with their synonyms. For every word you get correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Programme. The money for the […]
The Federal Government and My New Job
Published by December 23rd, 2007 in Miscellaneous, University of Florida and Healthcare. 3 CommentsI was recently hired for a part-time job as a lab assistant in the University of Florida College of Medicine Pathology Department for the coming spring semester. In order to complete some of the necessary training and paperwork associated with this position, I went to the Shands Hospital 1329 (Administrative) building a couple of days […]
This evening, at the Accent-sponsored forum on universal healthcare, I got into an argument during the Q&A session with Dr. David Himmelstein, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Our debate went something like this:
Me: In the interest of full disclosure, I am a libertarian. To quote […]
Did you know that Australia already gives out baby bonuses, similar to what Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mentioned (and later said we couldn’t afford…)? Here’s an interesting post by an Australian econoblogger who is up in arms about a sudden, punctuated increase in the baby bonus as opposed to a graduated increase:
By poorly implementing […]
Healthcare by Amateurs
Published by September 3rd, 2007 in Policy, Africa and Healthcare. 9 CommentsA subject of some repeated discussion in UES, as with most topics I suppose, is that of healthcare regulation. It has been a position of ours that scarcity of healthcare is a fact, since it is like any other good or service, and that one can build on that premise to understand certain things about […]
