All Posts Tagged With: "Medical Care"
Health Care and Medical Care
In the current Atlantic Megan McArdle discusses the flaws in using gross domestic product as a measurement of a country’s well-being and notes that a search is underway for alternative measures. (Actually Mark Skousen proposed one in The Freeman some years ago.) Her column contains this interesting paragraph: One possible approach is to focus on [...]
5Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedBye Bye, Daschle
Former Sen. Tom Daschle is gone. He’s taken himself out of nomination as Obama’s health and human services secretary because of his failure to pay taxes on perks he “earned” as a consultant providing corporations access to the government power he once held. He was to be the architect of the brave new medical system [...]
3Feb2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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