The Republican Study Committee Budget on the Key Drivers of Spending and Debt
Romina BocciaThe House and Senate both have budget committees. And yet, neither chamber has released a budget this year. Against this backdrop, it’s refreshing to see the Republican Study Committee (RSC) continue its nearly 30‐year tradition of producing an alternative conservative budget proposal. Titled “Protecting America ’s Economic Security, ” the RSC under chairman Kevin Hern (R‑OK) and Budget and Spending Task Force chairman Ben Cline (R‑VA) proposes to balance the federal budget, cut taxes, slash red tape, and boost work.The growth in the federal debt is directly tied to increases in spending for...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Colombia Should Legalize Adult Marijuana Use Today
Daniel RaisbeckAny American who smoked pot in the 1970 ’s likely came across Colombian marijuana. In 1979, in fact, Colombia was providing “roughly two ‐thirds of all the pot smoked” in the United States, according toTime Magazine. The industry certainly was illegal, but it also arose from an exemplary instance of bicultural exchange and bilateral trade. It was, after all, American Peace Corps volunteers who came across the legendary “Santa Marta Gold” strain on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, thus kicking off the country’s decade‐long “marijuana bonanza.”The boom times for Colombian pot came to an ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 15, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs
How to approach teen nose jobs with parents
Getting a nose job, also known as rhinoplasty, requires extensive research and planning. For teenagers, it requires extensive communication and collaboration, and for parents, it requires a lot of understanding and compassion. A nose job can be a life-changing decision for anyone planning on getting the procedure. If someone is a good candidate, it can
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Babak Azizzadeh, MD Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: IT Intern, Corporate Support Services
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the IT Intern, Corporate Support Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Intern Position IT Intern Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
Why Legal Immigration Is Impossible for Nearly Everyone
David J. BierMylatest policy analysis published today explains why it is impossible for nearly all immigrants seeking to come permanently to the United States to do so legally. The report is a uniquely comprehensive and jargon-free (to the extent possible) explanation of U.S. legal immigration. Contrary to public perception, immigrants cannot simply wait and get a green card (permanent residence) after a few years. Legal immigration is less like waiting in line and more like winning the lottery: it happens, but it is so rare that it is irrational to expect it in any individual case.The figure below shows the U.S. legal imm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
What ’s in the Republican Economic Tax Package?
Adam N. MichelWays and Means Committee Republicans recently introduced theAmerican Families and Jobs Act, an economic tax package that addresses significant ongoing tax increases on domestic investment built into the 2017Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Most of the Republicans ’ major proposed changes in theAmericanFamilies and Jobs Act expire after 2025, worsening current tax uncertainty and obscuring the necessary reforms ’ fiscal cost.Other than permanence, theAmerican Families and Jobs Act could be significantly improved by adding Universal Savings Accounts for family savings flexibility and neutral cost recovery for current...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Dock Health Secures $5M in Funding Led by MassMutual with Participation from DaVita Venture Group and August Capital
Dock Health, Inc., the administrative hub for healthcare professionals, today announced $5 million in funding led by MassMutual through its MM Catalyst Fund (MMCF) with participation from DaVita Venture Group and initial seed investor, August Capital. The new funding will grow its administrative hub for healthcare from its initial task and workflow management platform to a more powerful automation engine and robust analytics platform with new integrations to drive administrative best practices.
“The MM Catalyst Fund provides catalytic funding for high-impact companies that are helping to solve problems that will make pos...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Administrative Hub AI-Powered Workflows Analytics and Insights Dashboard August Capital Boston Children's Hospital DaVita DaVita Venture Group Dock Dock Health Dock Health Inc. Dr. Adam Weinstein D Source Type: blogs
Charting Some of Industrial Policy ’s Opportunity Costs
Adam N. Michel andScott LincicomeIn the last few years, Congress has authorized as much as $2.1 trillion in domestic subsidies for preferred industries such as steel, semiconductors, and electric vehicles —a flood of taxpayer cash that supporters havecheered for boosting U.S. manufacturing and the economy more broadly. As Cato scholarsandothers havelongcautioned, however, a proper assessment of industrial policies’ efficacy requires considering far more than a simple correlation between new government spending and new private investments, jobs, and products. Among the necessary considerations is the spending’s opp...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel, Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Landed Gentry and Health
BY MIKE MAGEE
“The title of our lands is free, clear, and absolute, and every proprietor of the land is a princess his own domains, and lord paramount of the fee.”
Jesse Root, 1798, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
When it came to social hierarchy and family position, land was the ultimate measure of success and influence in Great Britain. But by the time of the American Revolution, our Founders were already fast at work dismantling Primogeniture (“the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Landed Gentry Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Administrator Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Policy and Compliance Program Administrator Source Type: blogs
Not Indentured: Most H ‑1Bs Starting Jobs in 2022 Switched U.S. Employers
David J. BierCritics of the H ‑1B visa for skilled foreign workers often claim that the status amounts to “indentured” servitude. Indentured servitudeis a contract to work for a single employer for a predetermined periodwithout pay. H ‑1B workers are not only paid—they receive wagesin the top 10 percent of wage earners in the United States. As importantly, although they face more obstacles to changing jobs, H ‑1B workers are not tied to a single employer, and they change jobs regularly.In fact, H ‑1B workers are leaving their initial H‑1B employers more than ever. Figure 1 shows the number of H‑1B ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Technical Difficulties
My old ' puter was pretty much shitting the bed so I had to replace it. This required transferring its contents to the new machine, which ended up taking pretty much all day -- well, 3 1/2 hours plus commuting time with a tech support guy -- and then the rest of the afternoon restoring my logins, downloading cloud applications, and figuring out the new OS and whatnot. That got me thinking about the hassles connected with all the technology that ' s supposed to save us time and effort and amplify our powers. Somebody -- one of those radical environmentalist types like Murray Bookchin or E.F. Schumacher -- oh wait...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
White House Extends Ukraine ’s Steel Tariff Exemption; Sad Reminder of Steel Protectionism
Clark PackardOn the heels of Russia ’s aggressive war against Ukraine in early 2022, the Biden administration temporarilyexempted Ukrainian steel from the Trump administration ’s bogus “national security” tariffs imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (at the behest of the domestic steel industry). The exemption was set to expire on June 1, 2023, with tariffs snapping back to 25 percent. Last week, the White Houseannounced it would maintain Ukraine ’s exemption from tariffs and expanded it to cover Ukrainian steel processed within the European Union (EU). For free traders battered by ill‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 5, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Don ’ t Blame Burnout
BY SANJ KATYAL
It is hard to open a medical journal in any specialty without seeing an article on burnout. There are statistics, trends, and of course a myriad of causes detailed in these articles. A few even offer some sensible solutions – flexible scheduling, peer support, delegation of clerical work and an increased focus on personal well-being activities are steps in the right direction.
I have previously written that “the absence of burnout does not equal wellness” just as the absence of disease does not imply health. We deserve more than simply the ability to function, we deserve to flourish. Th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Burnout Medical Wellness Sanj Katyal Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Application Development and Integrations
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Application Development and Integrations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in Manhattan, New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Application Development and Integrations Director Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
