…because they’re socialist bureaucracies.
Best wishes to John Stossel on beating his lung cancer.
ObamaCare
We told you so:
Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives. But its result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less.
Now the insurers are beginning to realize that in spite of all the subsidies and mandates working in their favor, and despite all of the cost-cutting they have had to do at the expense of consumers, they just can’t make money in this system.
Of course, it was designed to fail, to provide a political glide path to single payer.
Title IX
As Megan McArdle tweeted, it’s almost like college administrators think that Stalin’s show trials got a bad rap.
WordPress
I’ve been putting off an update for far too long, but I finally did it today. I’m hoping it will fix some site issues, including comments appearing/disappearing.
No, Mr. Trump
We are not “supposed to be a democracy.”
My thoughts on Trump’s historical ignorance, and how he’s running for the wrong political party.
Metal 3-D Printing
…is coming to commercial aviation.
It’s hard to overstate what a technological revolution this is going to be.
Mouse Embryos
According to the pictures sent back from a high-resolution camera, the 600 embryos, which were put under the camera, developed from the 2-cell stage, an early-on embryonic cleavage stage, to blastocyst, the stage where noticeable cell differentiation occurs, around 72 hours after SJ-10’s launch. The timing was largely in line with embryonic development on Earth, according to CAS.
But we still have no idea what happens in partial gravity. And they didn’t bring them to term.
The Wages Of “Critical Theory”
College students cannot explain why a 5’9″ white guy isn’t a 6’5″ Chinese woman.
Remember, they’re putting themselves into tens of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable debt for this sort of “education.”
Useful Cislunar Orbits
Jon Goff has a blog post on a recent FISO telecon. One of the implications for all of these options, of course, is that SLS makes no sense.
The 97% Number That Won’t Die
The problem is that the issue is not whether or not “humans are causing global warming.” I can concede that there is a good possibility of that, and it still has zero implications for policy, absent quantification with sufficient confidence levels, which remain lacking.
[Afternoon update]
“Climatologists will say that the way the question is worded depends on whether they are included,” Morano said. “We have many skeptical scientists included as the 97 percent because of the way the questions [in surveys] are asked are so vague and broadly worded.”
Yup.