How Should Pediatricians Help?
There are many ways that pediatricians could offer help and resources without taking responsibility away from parents or without defaulting to a confrontational style of questioning. My post about parenting and responsibility wasn’t saying that pediatricians can’t offer advice. Far from it. The responsible parent will seek out advice from many sources. But there’s a large difference between solicited and unsolicited advice.
That’s Not Your Job, It’s Mine
Is it the pediatrician’s job to look out for the safety of my children? Or is that my job and responsibility?
Why are voters angry about President Obama's spending?
President George W. Bush was the biggest spending U.S. President since President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He ”he presided over an 83-percent increase in overall federal spending, which includes defense, domestic, entitlements, and interest. Even without TARP and Fannie/Freddie, spending was up a huge 70 percent under Bush over eight years. By contrast, total spending under …
A Good Husband's Guide
Men and women are always arguing over who has the tougher role to play. Obviously, it’s the other gender.
Leanne Bell offers an interesting take, called the Good Husband’s Guide. Refreshingly, she takes the men’s side of the argument.
In May of 1955, a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly ran a short point-form article called ”The …
Don't be an intellectual drunk driver
Sheldon Richman on ”Proposers versus Producers.”
”The dynamic leader who gives impassioned speeches and sponsors legislation on behalf of social justice is portrayed as heroic in part because few people can find the logical flaws in the program. As a result, all that counts are presumed motives. But motives divorced from understanding are worthless …
Safeway's Employees Take Responsibility
The Safeway grocery store chain created its own health plan for its employees. That’s not unique — many employers do that. Over the past four years, the average U.S. company has seen per-capita health care costs rise by 38%. Over the past four years, Safeway’s per-capita health care costs have remained flat. That’s a tremendous …
Responsibility Lowers Healthcare Costs
Last week I said that ”my health insurance reform plan would involve shifting healthcare spending from large premiums and all-inclusive health ”insurance” plans to small premiums and plans that only offer catastrophic insurance coverage. Patients would have more money left in their pocket, to allow them to pay more money out of pocket”.
Two days ago, …
Healthcare Responsibility
Health Reform’s Savings Myth, by Arnold Kling:
Anyway, what I was looking for on the web was a link to this article, which says that modern doctors are too beholden to insurance companies, rather than to patients. Nowhere does the the author mention that in 1960 fifty percent of personal health care expenditures …
Baldwin Blames the Feds
As you may have heard on the news, Wisconsin experienced some pretty severe flooding last month. Shortly after the rains subsided, I received Congresswoman Baldwin’s monthly e-mail update. She included this quote:
Our entire state Congressional delegation sent a letter to President Bush last Friday asking him to respond quickly to any requests Governor Doyle makes …
A Borrowers Responsibility
Two months ago, I wrote about the sub-prime mortgage ”crisis”. Specifically, I wrote about Mrs. Audrey Sweet and her troubles repaying a loan from Countrywide. Two days ago, Mrs. Sweet stopped by our humble blog to plead her case.
Countrywide forged my loan documents, they lied about the tax amount and my income to …