Questions Congress Should Ask About the OECD Two ‐Pillar Plan
Adam N. MichelEarlier this week,I wrote about how the OECD has lost its way by advocating for higher and more complicated taxes and leaving behind its historical mission of global free-market economic development. The Biden Administration has also used the OECD to circumvent Congress ’ role in developing tax rules and signed the United States on to the OECD’s Two-Pillar plan to increase taxes on large multinational companies.As theEuropean Union and other countries begin to adopt the OECD rules, Congress will face continued pressure to follow their lead. However, Congress should resist these pressures and work to keep ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Trump As Catalyst For Legal and Cultural Reform
BY MIKE MAGEE
Former President Donald Trump’s indictment this morning reinforces most Americans’ belief that “No man is above the law.” But few of us have taken the time to explore what that statement means when it comes to building a healthy nation, and why we believe it.
How do you create a healthy nation?
This is at once a very simple and a very complex question. It is at the heart of successful and failed nation building.
It applies equally to a self-assessment of our approach to rebuilding Germany and Japan as part of the Marshall Plan after WW II, and to our own struggl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Common Law Donald Trump Indictment Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Getting real
We ' re at the point where the story in Chronicles and the Deuteronomistic history have emerged from the mists of myth into a basis in historical reality. The failed siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib is established history. The story is also told in Kings, but it ' s a completely different recounting of very similar events, which is more evidence that this really happened, in other words at least two different people wrote an account of the same events. (The Chronicler is evidently drawing on, or copying from, a lost source.) Historians aren ' t convinced that a plague was the reason for Sennacherib ' s defeat, but otherwi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 2, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Silver Lining for the Trump Indictment?
Clark NeilyThe Founders understood perfectly well just how dangerous criminal law can be. Criminal law tends to be the first tool that tyrants reach for when they seek to punish and oppress their opponents; the indiscriminate threat of prosecution can be used to cow citizens into meek compliance, so it is important to ensure that citizens who are charged with crimes enjoy an array of rights and prerogatives to help level the playing field against the potentially abusive exercise of government ’s most fearsome power.And that is precisely why more than half the Bill of Rights is devoted to criminal procedure, including par...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily Source Type: blogs
Can American Democracy Pass The Trump Stress Test?
BY MIKE MAGEE
As we enter a new and potentially historic week, with a former President doing his best to reignite a Civil War in our nation, we do well to take a breath and reread James Madison’s words from Federalist No. 51. But first, a few words of history.
When it came to checks and balances in this new national experiment in self governance, the Founders, while establishing three co-equal branches, left one of those branches the task of defining by practice its own power and influence.
The new Constitution in 1787 awarded one branch, the elected Congress, the daunting power to impeach, convict and remove re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Mike Magee Mitch McConnell Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Trump William Marbury Source Type: blogs
Justine Siegemundin
Justine Siegemund (1636-1705), midwife,was the Google Doodle for today, 28th March 2023. When young, she was misdiagnosed as pregnant when in fact she had a prolapsed uterus, and her experiences led her to train and practice as a midwife. She was Court Midwife in Berlin, in which post she delivered royal babies, and was invited to write a training manual for other midwives, the first medical book in German to be written by a woman, published in 1690. Searches in Cinahl and PubMed with variations of her name (Siegemundin, and different spellings of her first name) find just a handful of arti...
Source: Browsing - March 28, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Federal Interest Costs, 1790 –2033
Chris EdwardsAs federal spending continues to rise, accumulated federal debt will soon reach all ‐time highs relative to the size of the economy. Federal debt held by the public will hit 107 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2028, surpassing the previous peak after World War II. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) oftenhighlights the rising debt ‐to‐GDP ratio as a warning for policymakers to change course and avert a debt crisis.Another warning sign of a coming debt crisis is soaring interest costs. With interest rates rising, federal interest payments have doubled from 1.2 percent of GDP in 2...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Fast Facts about the U.S. Federal Debt
Romina BocciaHigh and rising government debt slows growth, crowds out private investment, limits the government ’s ability to respond to unexpected emergencies, and elevates the risk of a sudden fiscal crisis, where investors would lose confidence in U.S. Treasury bonds and the U.S. dollar. This fact sheet lays out everything legislators and the public need to know about the U.S. federal debt to help them examine the unsustainability of the U.S. budget.The total or gross federal debt is$31.5 trillion. This is the debt subject to the debt limit.At120 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the gross federal debt exceeds...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Math of Just Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Add Up
Adam N. MichelDespite the headlines, thePresident ’s 2024 Budget demonstrates how challenging it is to raise significant new tax revenue from a small minority of wealthy taxpayers. The budget raises about $1.8 trillion from non‐corporate taxpayers over ten years. Yet, following all the rhetoric about the rich not paying their fair share, it should be striking that across more than twenty new and expanded taxes, the administration’s plan does not even raise enough revenue from wealthy taxpayers to cover new spending proposed in Biden’s budget, let alone theprojected $20 trillion deficit over the next ten years....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
ConclusionThe United States faces a considerable fiscal challenge with the explosive growth in government spending, the escalation of entitlement payments, and slower demographic growth. How immigrants impact the fiscal state of the U.S. government is important for policymakers and the public to consider when evaluating different reforms to get the U.S. government onto a sounder fiscal footing. Our paper “The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States ” is the first in a new series of Cato papers that analyze the fiscal impact of immigration. It ’s 248 pages of information, data, explanations, figures, and cha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes
In a recent video interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2, revives the term “meaningful” in health care technology. However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations. Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability of data between health IT software. That said, healthcare organizations have begun to ask Kno2 for help. Bell says they are still stressed by inadequate staff, declining reimbursements, and changing care models.
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC CAREplan Health Data Health Data Sharing Healthcare Digital Tranformation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Outcome Source Type: blogs
Health care funding: three key questions about funding in England
Health Foundation - This analysis from the Health Foundation ’s REAL Centre explores the latest health care funding figures for England, including how much funding has been committed, how it compares to historical levels and how it stacks up against what is needed to meet current pressures facing health services. The analysis is based on the March 2023 OBR economic forecast and Treasury figures on spending plans from 15 March 2023 (the Spring Budget 2023).Analysis (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: St. Patrick School
Colleen HroncichHappy St. Patrick ’s Day!It seemed fitting to highlight St. Patrick School today, but there are nearly 100 American schools named after the 5th century bishop who is the patron saint of Ireland. After a little digging, I foundSt. Patrick School in Carleton, Michigan, which stood out for having moved to a classical education model this year.The transition started several years ago, shortly after Carl Lenze became principal. The school, which has been in the rural community for 147 years, was struggling with enrollment. Officials in the archdiocese suggested they consider adopting a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
A Century of Federal Spending, 1925 –2025
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden ’snew budget confirms that we are in the midst of a historic ratcheting up of government spending. Federal spending is substantially higher post ‐pandemic than pre‐pandemic, just as spending reached new plateaus after 9/11 and after the Great Recession of 2007–2009.The chart shows federal outlays as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from 1925 to 2025. The figures for 2023 to 2025 are Biden’s new estimates.Let ’s look at nondefense spending, which includes everything from agriculture, to education, to transportation, to Social Security:1925 –1955. Nondefense spend...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 16, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 120, Thursday March 16
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 16 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); and delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis).
You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Ian Morrison Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
