Click on “read more” to see four of the presentations from last week’s Minnesota Climate Change Symposium.
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Archives for August, 2009
Remembering Rose Friedman
This past week, Rose Director Friedman, economist, co-author and wife of Dr. Milton Friedman died at her home in California. She was believed to be 98 (no birth records exist for the village she was born in, in what is now the Ukraine). The Friedman Foundation has this to say about her passing. Minnesota Free Market Senior Policy Fellow King Banaian wrote the following remembrance:
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Health care: Life and death and substance
It’s unfortunate that some opponents of federal government-directed health care jumped on the ‘Death Panel’ metaphor instead of the substance of the proposed legislation. Whether the federal legislation intends it or not, a government-directed plan necessarily requires bureaucrats to make life and death decisions that are more far-reaching and more complex than the hyperbolic ‘pulling the plug on grandma.’
Say you were tasked with managing the cost of newborn-care under the proposed “public option” health care plan; What would you do? Should the public health plan allow spending billions of tax dollars on technology and treatment attempting to save low-birth-weight infants when that practice has a high probability of complications yielding a relatively low survival rate with a high probability of ongoing medical and other expenses associated with survival?
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