It's no secret that the United States has the most expensive health
care system in the world. We spend nearly twice as much per person as
do other developed countries for health outcomes that are no better and
in some cases much worse. Moreover, the citizens of most other
countries, including Canada and the U.K., who are routinely reviled by
opponents of "socialized" medicine, express greater satisfaction with
their health care systems than we do with ours.
... months after the needle biopsy incident, I read Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, by Annapolis author Shannon Brownlee. ...
To judge from his faltering campaign for healthcare reform, President Obama, well-read as he is, appears to have neglected to read Machiavelli. If he had done so, the American president would have learned this from the Florentine statesman and philosopher in "The Prince":
... president when he says we can have all these good things without paying for it," said Michael Lind, a political analyst at the New America Foundation. ...
Back in the
1960s, Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter and other liberal
sociologists, historians and political scientists, puzzled that anyone
could support Barry Goldwater rather than Lyndon Johnson, concluded
that Goldwater supporters were deranged. They didn't say so directly,
of course. They said that members of the radical right were emotionally
disturbed victims of "status anxiety." The evidence? They didn't vote
the way that Lipset and other academics thought that they should vote.
Therefore they had to be crazy.
Another recent study, by Samuel Sherraden and Jason Peuquet of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington found that America's ...
Michael Lind discusses extending benefits for the under-employed and unemployed. Original clip
In my first
foray into political life in the 1970s, I worked during college on the
staff of a liberal Democrat in the Texas state Senate. Only a few years
earlier, Patty Hearst had been kidnapped and brainwashed by the
Symbionese Liberation Army, and a moral panic about cults seducing
college kids was sweeping the nation. One result was the rise of a new,
thankfully ephemeral profession: "deprogrammers" who for pay would
kidnap a young person from a cult and break the spell, by means of
isolation, interrogation… more
Indeed a recent study by Sam Sherraden at the center-left New America Foundation finds that, for the most part, green jobs constitute a negligible factor in ...
As a recent New America Foundation report makes clear, precious little has gone to the productive side of the economy that determines the country's ...
July 31, 2009
