Freedom, Not Protectionism, Is America's Greatest Achievement
Well, that was fast. Only a dayafter I said that we are likely to see increasing calls for protectionism citing alleged national security concerns, Scott N. Paul took to thepages ofThe New York Times to urge the imposition of new restrictions on steel imports based on this same justification. Long on attempted tugs at emotional and patriotic heartstrings, the piece is strikingly short on data suggesting U.S. national security has been imperiled by foreign imports. Indeed, to the extent Paul, who serves as president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, even attempts to make this case it is through the following:Even ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
How To Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime?
Introduction: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionFor a long time we have argued thathealth care corruption is a major cause of health care dysfunction. As we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life a...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 15, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs
Counterinsurgency Math Revisited
When does 32,200 – 60,000 = 109,000? That seemingly inaccurate equation represents theestimated number of Islamist-inspiredterrorists when the war on terror began, how many the U.S.has killed since 2015, and the number thatfight today. And it begs the question of just how can the terror ranks grow so fast when they ’re being depleted so rapidly.As early as 2003, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hinted at the potential mathematical problem when he asked, “Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and dep...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Erik Goepner Source Type: blogs
Crispy Critters
That would be millions of us Homo sapiensas much of the Middle East and Europe bake in unprecedented heat. Yes, Iraq is normally hot in the summer, but not it is close to uninhabitable:As temperatures rose towards 51C on Thursday, Iraq ’s government declared a mandatory holiday, allowing civic servants to shelter at home. So far this month in the Iraqi capital, every day but one has reached 48C or higher, and the forecast is for the high temperatures to continue for the next week. July was little different, in Iraq and inSyria, where the capital, Damascus, has also been several degrees hotter than usual nearly every day ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 10, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The BCRA Is An Improvement Over Obamacare. Here ’ s why..
ANISH KOKA MD
Dr. Jha writes on these pages in typically stirring fashion about his views on the recent health care kerfuffle and rightly so fingers what the real focus of our efforts should be: Cost. He ends by slaying both sides because of their refusal to confront the hospital chargemonster – the fee schedule hospitals make that remarkably only really applies to the uninsured.
Unfortunately, the solution proposed ensures hospital fee schedules for the uninsured are no greater than Medicare reimbursements, which is far from perfect. Consider that the Medicare reimbursement for a stent placed to an ischemic limb is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Economics Repeal Replace Uncategorized Anish Koka BCRA Obamacare Source Type: blogs
Trade-Offs in the Middle East
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump delighted in waving to packed crowds whilethe Rolling Stones ’“You can’t always get what you want” played. At the time, the song seemed like a repudiation of the Republican elites who had failed to support his campaign. Today, as his Middle East policy careens off the rails, it’s a concept the President himself should learn to grasp.Mere hours afterSecretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that tensions between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other regional states were negatively impacting the fight against ISIS and calling for all sides to defuse tensions, the Presidentc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
Saint Ronald
Iraq and Iran fought a horrific war from 1980 to 1988. Saddam Hussein was unquestionably the perpetrator. He repeatedly used chemical weapons against Iranian troops, then in 1988he attacked the Kurdish village of Halabja, in northern Iraq, with mustard gas, killing thousands of civilians.The president of the United States wasconservative demi-God Ronald Reagan:In 1983, President Reagan sent a special envoy to Baghdad. He was Donald Rumsfeld, and that visit resulted in the now famous picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. This was in December of 1983. This was at a time when the US was secretly aware t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 12, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Will More Countries Be Added to Trump ’s Migration Ban?
President Trump ’s executive order is facing numerous court challenges, including atemporary restraining order. My colleague David Bier has made a convincingstatutoryargument that Trump ’s temporarily ban on issuing visas to the nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen is unlawful. The genesis of Trump’s executive order was his campaign promise of aMuslim ban which, although unpopular, is built on a sturdier legal foundation than a 21st-century national origins quota. If the court challenges fail and Trump’s ban is legal then there is a high probability that the bans will be ext...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Gulf War Illness 25 Years After Desert Storm
In the 25 years since Desert Storm, about 250,000 of the almost 700,000 involved in the Gulf War 1 theater have suffered from some version of the complex of symptoms now called Gulf War Illness. This illness was discussed in a recent symposium co-hosted by the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University Medical Center.
While Desert Storm battle casualties were light, military personnel were exposed to various chemical and biological agents. These included Pyridostigmine Bromide, to prevent the effects of nerve gases which had been used previously by Iraq; organophosphate pesticides (such as DEET) which were embedded in...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Joel Kupersmith and Michael O'Hanlon Tags: Featured Organization and Delivery Public Health Quality Department of Defense desert storm Gulf War Illness Research Veterans Veterans Administration Source Type: blogs
America Has Dependents, Not Allies
America’s international position is distinguished by its alliance networks. Presidential candidates fear today’s dangerous world, but the United States is allied with every major industrialized power, save China and Russia. It is a position that Washington’s few potential adversaries must envy.
Yet as I pointed out in National Interest: “littering the globe with security commitments is costly. The U.S. must create a much bigger military to project force abroad to protect countries that often matter little for this nation’s security. Moreover, while policymakers hope to prevent war with treaty guarantees, the resu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
April Man of the Month: Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III
Throughout the nation’s health care continuum, policymakers and clinicians are searching for ways to eliminate health disparities, improve cost-efficiencies, and achieve better patient outcomes. An organization making important strides in this area is the U.S. military, and a particular leader who warrants our attention is Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Man of the Month, Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
A pediatrician by training, Faison is experienced in providing high-quality, patient-centered care to large, geographically dispersed populations. As co...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in th...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one i...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States Have Accepted Many Syrians
Many more Syrians are living in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States than at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. The World Bank reports that 1,000,000 Syrians resided in Saudi Arabia in 2013, a whopping 795 percent increase over 2010. There were 1,375,064 Syrian migrants living in the Gulf States in 2013, a 470 percent increase over 2010. Excluding Oman, the 2013 Syrian population in every Gulf State has increased dramatically since right before the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Syrian Population Residing in Each Country
2010
2013
Increase Since 2010
Saudi Arabia
111,764
1,000,000
794...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
