The Wall Street Journal has an important article from a few days ago highlighting some of the important passages in the 2,000 page legislation. Here are the first two highlights: Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will […]
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on Health Reform
This is John Mackey’s Wall Street Journal column on health reform from last August. Mackey proposes health savings accounts as a key part of the solution and talks a bit about how they have made things more cost effective at Whole Foods. You can also read the very good interview that the WSJ did with […]
Mike Rogers' Opening Statement on Health Care Reform
This is a very good opening statement on health care reform by congressman Mike Rogers from last summer. Many of his statements go to the core issues:
How Health Savings Accounts Can Reform Health Care Better Than a Goverment Bill — Without Creating Any New Laws
One of the main reasons that we are in this health care mess is that nobody has stated a clear case for health savings accounts. Health savings accounts just may be the “sleeping solution” to the health care problem. But people aren’t seeing this because most of the time when health savings accounts are discussed, […]
The Worst Bill Ever
Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill earns recognition as the worst bill ever by the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the last paragraph: Mr. Obama rode into office on a wave of “change,” but we doubt most voters realized that the change Democrats had in mind was making health care even more expensive and rigid than the […]
Raising Socially Literate Children
Keith Ferrazi gives 6 tips for kick-starting thinking on raising kids that are great at online media but bad at in-person interaction. Here’s the first part: Are we raising a nation of teenagers who r omg totally gr8 texters, but total dopes when it comes to managing face to face communication? Your teenage child sends […]
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple is Just Fine
Wired has a good article on “The Good Enough Revolution.” Here’s the gist: “Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience.”
Resolutions and the New Testament
John Piper had a great article the other day called Let’s Make Some Autumn Resolutions. A resolve — such as a New Year’s resolution or, in the case of Piper’s article, an “autumn resolution” — is essentially something you intend to do, change, or become more of. It can be initiated by a change in […]
Cost Versus Efficiency in Health Care
From economist Greg Mankiw’s blog: Advocates of government-run health insurance like to point to Medicare’s low administrative costs (which, as I noted yesterday, is a controversial claim). But even if that factual claim were true, the argument would hardly be dispositive as to the greater efficiency of a publicly run system. As I put it […]
The Safety of Airplanes
Two major airline crashes in the last month is tragic. Fast Company has an interesting article on “why, in the 21st Century, do aircraft keep plummeting out of the sky?” I gave some of my answer last month in my posts on why airplane crashes happen and the role of communication styles in airplane crashes, […]
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