Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Tackling Gender-Based Violence Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Increased poverty and major shifts in traditional gender roles for Syrian refugees have worsened interpersonal tensions, increased the risk of domestic violence, and caused challenges for aid workers. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Mahlet A. Woldetsadik Source Type: blogs
Public Schooling Battles: January Dispatch
January brought a new year to our calendars —more on calendars shortly—but a look at the public schoolingvalues and identity-based battles for the month shows that nothing much has really changed. Some of the big battlegrounds of 2017 —and years before that—are still big battlegrounds at the outset of 2018. Which should come as no surprise: A new year doesn’t suddenly make diverse people abandon the cultures, histories, and values they cherish.
Let ’s look at some of the recurring conflicts in January:Gender:How to fairly treat both transgender students and people who are concerned about privacy, and sometimes ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
The UPMC-Highmark Brawl Spills Into Philadelphia ’ s Backyard
By TORY WOLFF
The UPMC/Highmark rivalry continues to open new fronts in Pennsylvania. Highmark’s response to UPMC is differentiated in two ways: first, Highmark is using a coalition-building strategy and, second, it is controlling its exposure to big in-patient assets; in contrast, UPMC is building an integrated, single-brand system and happily taking over hospitals (and building more) along the way. When UPMC and Highmark make major investments in a region, local systems will be caught in the capex arms and feel the pressure to affiliate. Credibly threatening to respond in kind may defuse the arms race. But unaffiliated...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Highmark UPMC Source Type: blogs
Where Is Assad Getting His Fighters from? (It's Not Just Lebanon and Iraq)
The Assad regime ' s defense against insurgents in Syria ' s ongoing civil war is being provided by forces imported from Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Lebanon and Iraq. Most of these fighters are being trained and equipped by Iran. Could this network of foreign fighters help Iran establish a greater presence beyond the Middle East? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 4, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Colin P. Clarke; Phillip Smyth Source Type: blogs
Prior Presidents ’ “Travel Bans” Are Different From President Trump’s Ban
President Trump ’stravel ban Proclamation that bans immigration and travel from seven countries (and limits it from an eighth) is based on authority in immigration law that other presidents have used. But all but one of these bans were quite different from President Trump ’s. They banned at most a few thousand—almost always specifically named—individuals based on their personal conduct, not their nationality. In the one exception, not all nationals were banned, and the requirements to end the ban were very clear. Neither of which can be said for the Trump ban.Different in ScaleNo president has attempted to ban as m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
New Travel Ban Would Not Have Prevented the Entry of Any Terrorists Since 9/11
President Trump signed anew proclamation this weekend that bans or restricts the travel and immigration of nationals from eight countries. This order drops the pretext of being a temporary measure and includes no end date. Inour amicus brief for the Supreme Court case challenging his prior executive order banning travel from six countries, we criticized the ban as lacking a basis in the evidence regarding terrorism threats and terrorism vetting failures. This new order fares no better. It is even further divorced from threats of terrorism to the United States than the prior order.The new targets are the nationals of the fo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Cynical Hawks Exploit North Korea Crisis to Torpedo Iran Agreement
Donald Trump ’sspeech to the UN General Assembly underscored his intention to adopt highly confrontational policies toward both North Korea and Iran. He threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea in the event of war and re-emphasized Washington’s long-standing determination to compel Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The president scorned Iran as “an economically depleted rogue state” and described the current multilateral nuclear agreement with Tehran as “an embarrassment” to the United States. If Trump is not merely engaging in bombast, Washington appears to be ginning-u...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Post 9/11 America Is Remarkably Safe
Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Those attacks murdered 2,983 innocent people and remain the deadliest in world history by a factor of anywhere from6.4 to9.1 (many disagree whether the1978 Cinema Rex fire in Iran that killed 470 people was terrorism). All of the 19 hijackers were foreign-born, 15 from Saudi Arabia, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, and one each from Lebanon and Egypt. They all entered lawfully, 18 on tourist visas and 1 on a student visa.Many folks prophesied a new world of near constant destructive terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that would frequently rival 9/11. These predictions wer...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Role of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Education
Discussion topics:T1: What are the main systemic barriers to good communication in healthcare?T2: What is your favorite education tool? (Think broadly!)T3: What is your favorite “high-yield” question to ask patients? Patients, what’s the one Q you want your HCP to ask?Meredith MacMartin is a palliative care physician atDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. (Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog)
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 28, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash
ConclusionRogoff raises many other interesting issues in his response, and trying to cover them all would make this article much too lengthy. His arguments are generally sophisticated and sometimes challenging, even when I disagree with him or believe he hasn’t adequately addressed my concerns. Our most fundamental difference remains our analysis of the State. Rogoff unreflectively adopts what Harold Demsetz characte rizes as the“nirvana” approach to public policy. This makes him far more optimistic than is justified about the overall benevolence and competence of governments, particularly in developed countries. H...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Source Type: blogs
The moral assassination of physicians must stop
As a physician, all the mounting negative news I read about doctors can’t help but hit me straight in the gut. This is especially true when reading about a tragic murder of a sweet and highly dedicated 32-year-old physician, Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam and the serious injuries to five other physicians on June 30th at NYC’s Bronx Lebanon Hospital. Can you blame me for advocating for my esteemed colleagues? Everybody’s “Lives” seem to “matter” — what about physicians’ lives?
Don’t the ones who dedicate their own lives to saving others at least deserve to have their own lives matter? Seems not. Those who wou...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 26, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-weiss" rel="tag" > Michael Weiss, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Believe Them the First Time
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
I remember the first time someone threatened to kill me. It was my day off, so I was not in the clinic that day; a Children’s Hospital specialty group was working there instead, and after a staff member called the police, she notified me. A father had walked in saying he wanted to kill me for “taking his children away from him.” Wracking my brain as to this man’s identity, I drew a blank.
The police found him in a local park a short time later and judged him to be “harmless.” Somehow, I did not share their reassuring sentiment. I figured out who the man was, tracked down his mot...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime
We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction isperverse incentives, including those that allowtop health care leaders to become rich by putting money ahead of patient care. We have presented case after case supporting this point,most recently including a collection of generously compensated top executives of non-profit hospital systems whose pay seemed disproportionate to their personal achievement, and unrelated to their hospitals ' clinical outcomes or quality of care.Such cases, with their recitations of monetary amounts and repeated public relations talking points, can be rather dry.&nbs...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: crime executive compensation fraud hospital systems hospitals mission-hostile management perverse incentives Source Type: blogs
