Filtered By:
Management: Government

This page shows you your search results in order of date. This is page number 9.

Order by Relevance | Date

Total 1207 results found since Jan 2013.

Government Spending Could Top $9 Trillion
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden ’s push to spend another $1.9 trillion on economic relief is surreal given that government budgets are vastly ballooned already. Total federal, state, and local government spending soared from $6.8 trillion in 2019 to $8.8 trillion in 2020. That is $68,000 in government spending for every househo ld in the nation.We have already imposed $6 trillion in new debt on future taxpayers in just two years. More spending would be reckless and extremely unfair as young people will have their own costs and crises to deal with down the road. Vaccinate people, repeal shutdown mandates, and the economy wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

The Great Bucatini Shortage of 2020 and the FDA ’s History of Telling Italians How to Make Italian Food
Michael F. CannonRachel Handler has a  delightfulpiece atNew Yorkmagazine ’s food and restaurant blogGrub Street on how Big Pasta is using government regulation to punish competitors and consumers. The result is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in addition to causing a  shortage of COVID-19diagnostic tests andvaccines, is basically causing a  nationwide shortage of bucatini.On March 30, at the beginning of a  pandemic whose supply shocks were making everything from toilet paper to pasta harder to get, the FDAblocked imports of De Cecco bucatini. The FDA found the iron content of the Italian company’s bu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

CRAZY AMERICA: Health Insurance Covers Testing When You Are Well But Not When You Are Sick
By HANS DUVEFELT Insurance is the wrong word for what we have here. Our private health insurance system’s prioritization of sometimes frivolous screenings but non-coverage for common illnesses and emergencies is a travesty and an insult to typical American middle class families. State Medicaid insurance for the underemployed has minimal copays of just a few dollars for doctor visits and medications. From my vantage point as a physician, it is the best insurance a patient can have. They cover almost everything and it is clear to me how to apply for exceptions or follow their step care requirements. I cannot...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Source Type: blogs

State and Local Budgets Are Not in Crisis
Chris EdwardsCongress has provided$2.6 trillion in spending and tax relief in response to the pandemic and economic crisis. As government spending has started to decline, the economy is recovering strongly with GDPrising and business startupssoaring.Nonetheless, the political impulse to spend seems insatiable, and Congress is crafting another huge aid package that will put us further into debt. Policymakers are considering providing further aid for state and local governments, no doubt prompted by off ‐​base storiessuch as this one suggesting that states are in dire fiscal straits.Bureau of Economic Analysis data (Tabl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 7th 2020
In this study, except for the reduction in body weight, the aging characteristics related to epidermal and muscle tissue in mice were significantly ameliorated in the CR group compared with the control group. Additional studies have indicated that not stem cells themselves but the stem cell microenvironment is the key factor mediating stem cell activation, proliferation and differentiation. Mitochondrial dysfunction is an important factor leading to age-related muscular atrophy. Considering the dependence of skeletal muscle on ATP, loss of mitochondrial function, which can lead to a decrease in strength and enduranc...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 6, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Ancient history
To help us think more systematically about the present issues, I want to review how we got here, beginning at what is for these purposes the beginning. Anatomically modern humans -- people whose skeletons are essentially indistinguishable from ours -- appeared around 250,000 years ago, maybe a bit sooner. We can ' t be entirely sure because there could be older fossils we haven ' t found, but probably close enough. Genus Homo culture had changed very slowly before then. Homo erectus had pretty much the same tool kit for 1 million years.  But shortly after the appearance of H. sapiens -- apparently not immediately...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

They ' ve Gone Coup-Coup
Science confirms consistent neurophysiological and psychological differences between conservatives and liberals. How they react to threats. Their reliance on the observable and their response to presented facts. Evolutionary biologists have theories, but it ’s intuitive that, in addition to rationalists, primitive societies benefitted from people who don’t need no damn proof to react to perceived threats. Noises. Shadows. Gut feelings. It could avoid becoming a meal.Who knows why such brains remain in circulation? Individuals are safer now. More often than not, there ’s time to think, evaluate. Threats from saber-too...
Source: Surgeonsblog - November 5, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Sid Schwab Source Type: blogs

Decentralize Power to Unite the Nation
Chris EdwardsThe problem with democracy is that after the election, half the country is going to feel as unhappy as this tortured fellow.Actually, the problem is not democracy. It is that the federal government has amassed such huge power over our lives that people get bitter when their side in the presidential race loses. Federal intervention in education, health care, housing, welfare, and many other economic and social areas has made people fear that the next president will impose policies they detest and view as harmful to their communities.The rise in federal spending and regulatory power has deepened anger and partis...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

Election Issue Spotlight: “Junk” Insurance Makes a Pandemic Even Worse
By ROSEMARIE DAY and NIKO LEHMAN-WHITE One of the most important responsibilities of the American government is to protect its citizens from harmful industry practices, from lead poisoning to dangerous pharmaceuticals to financial meltdowns. Its record is far from perfect, but government regulators usually act in good faith and in turn earn the trust of those they protect. As we head into Tuesday’s election, it’s important to shine a spotlight on the fact that the Trump administration has betrayed that trust yet again. They have allowed low-quality, unregulated forms of insurance called Short-Term Limited Du...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics election 2020 Health insurance niko lehman-white rosemarie day Source Type: blogs

Health Care 101 Continued: The allocation problem
We often hear sentiments to the effect that human life is infinitely precious, that you can ' t put a price on human life. While most people probably think this instinctively, it is conservatives, and particularly religious conservatives, who are most likely to try to apply the concept in reality. Do you remember the ravings about " death panels " when the Affordable Care Act passed? Of course there ' s nothing in the ACA that could conceivably be construed that way, but the scary meme was imported from arguments about single payer or, as in the UK, socialized medicine schemes.To put this in the simplest and starkest terms...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sales and Excise Taxes on the Ballot
Chris EdwardsThere have been 20 questions to increase, cut, or limit income taxes on statewide ballots over the past decade, as compiled byBallotpedia. I examined those ballotshere and found that voters favored the small ‐​government side 60 percent of the time.What about sales and excise taxes? In November,Oregon voters will decide on Measure 108, which would increase taxes on cigarettes by $2 per pack. Governor Kate Brown —who received an “F” on this year’sCato fiscal report—has pushed for the increase.Cigarettes are a demonized product and the pro ‐​tax campaign in Oregon is far out‐​spen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 19, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

Health Care 101, continued
Okay, back to where we were before I was so rudely interrupted. As we have established, insurance is about risk pools. Sure, you can offer a cheap policy if you only sell it to people who are young and healthy, and that ' s what would happen in a non-regulated ( " free " ) market; but that would be largely pointless. As soon as somebody actually needed the insurance, they would not be able to renew it. People who are fortunate enough to have employer-provided insurance (which is an oddity largely specific to the United States, for historical reasons we won ' t go into there) don ' t generally have this problem. Employ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 13, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Early detection and diagnosis of cancer: a roadmap to the future
Cancer Research UK -This roadmap aims to unite fragmented efforts across the UK to drive progress in early detection and diagnosis of cancer. It articulates a shared vision,  from discovery to implementation, for a long-term future where early detection and diagnosis of all cancers is a routine reality. It also highlights the current challenges impeding progress and makes recommendations for research, development, health system delivery and government policy on ho w to overcome these challenges.RoadmapCancer Research UK - publications
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 5th 2020
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 4, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Your Privacy In The Digital Health Era: The Medical Futurist ’s Guide
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D-printing disrupts the normal supply chain and even the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  First and foremost, it’s an era defined by a cultural transformation that will upend the traditional structure of healthcare. Clinical-grade sensors are available outside of the ivory towers of medicine; patients demand such tools so that they can become more proactive in managing the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon device epati Source Type: blogs