Whatever else might be said about the current state of our financial markets, it’s safe to say that right now they are a mess. How big a mess, how long it will take to clean up, and how dangerous the mess really is are all the subject of vigorous debate. What we do know for [...]
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Wading Into a Health Care Swamp
This article was originally published on Townhall.com. Comments welcome there. It’s as predictable as the sun setting in the West: it’s an election year and reforming how we deliver health care is on the political agenda. Advocates on the left are pushing an agenda of “universal health care,” by which they mean taking steps toward [...]
category: David Strom, Health Care
The elephant, amok: Jammed signals, unchained greed and recklessness
When cornered by the media early last week, U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid warned that a solution to the turmoil in the financial markets wouldn’t be forthcoming soon because, “No one knows what to do.” A few hours later, Reid and a collection of bureaucratic and congressional cognoscenti emerged from a closed-door meeting knowing [...]
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