I have some thoughts on human spaceflight and inappropriate risk aversion, over at Popular Mechanics.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Shouting “Liar”
…in a crowded Congress. It’s hard for me to get very bent out of shape about it, considering that the president was lying, and spent much of his speech accusing his political opponents of doing so. The apology was appropriate, though. Don’t expect to hear one from the president.
The Upcoming Fecklessness At The UN
…by Barack Obama. Anne Bayefsky has some concerns.
In Defense Of Van Jones
…sort of.
Why Are Jews “Liberals”?
The Future Of Health Care
Problems with the Obama legacy.
Is This A Good Idea?
I hadn’t realized that there was a website called gop.gov. I thought that the .gov top-level domain was for official government sites. To have one for Republicans seems to be mixing party and government. Of course, I think that parties (and particularly the major ones) are far too privileged in general, given that they are unmentioned in the Constitution.
Keep Them On The Defensive
Time to streamline the “stimulus”?
A Healthcare Alternative
From CEI:
1. Modify tax policy to eliminate the disincentives for individual purchase of health insurance and health care.
2. Eliminate regulatory barriers that prevent small businesses from cooperatively pooling and self-insuring their health risks by liberalizing the rules that govern voluntary health-care purchasing cooperatives.
3. Eliminate laws that prevent interstate purchase of health insurance by individuals and businesses.
4. Eliminate rules that prevent individuals and group purchasers from tailoring health insurance plans to their needs, including federal and state benefit mandates and community rating requirements.
5. Eliminate artificial restrictions on the supply of health-care services and products, such as the overregulation of drugs and medical devices, as well as state and federal restrictions on who may provide medical services and how they must be delivered.
6. Improve the availability of provider and procedure-specific cost and quality data for use by individual health consumers.
7. Reform the jackpot malpractice liability system that delivers windfall punitive damage awards to small numbers of injured patients while it raises malpractice insurance costs for doctors and incentivizes the practice of defensive medicine.
Never happen. Makes too much sense.