Deportation Rates in Historical Perspective
Alex NowrastehIn last week ’s Democratic primary debate, Univision anchor Jorge Ramosasked Joe Biden about President Obama ’s record on immigration enforcement. Ramos said, “you served as vice president in an administration that deported 3 million people, the most ever in U.S. history.”Democratic partisans were very upset on twitter, but the numbers don ’t lie. President Obama removed more people from the United States,no matter how you dice the numbers than any other president. But was President Obama's removal record an anomaly? To answer that question, I looked at the number of removals per president going bac...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Hitting “ Escape Velocity ” in Health Innovation & Technology? | Todd Park, Devoted Health
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Todd Park is known for being excited, but THIS TIME the co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Devoted Health is excited that it’s the 10th Anniversary of Health Datapalooza, a gathering and initiative he had a hand in creating when he served Barack Obama as the Chief Technology Officer of the United States. What else is energizing Todd? How about value-based payment finally taking hold and the opportunities that’s opening up for payment model innovation and that will allow the disruption of healthcare to achieve ‘escape velocity.’
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, M...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Value-Based Care WTF Health devoted health Health Datapalooza payment reform Todd Park Source Type: blogs
Man Engages In Sarcasm On Social Media. Career Survives.
Walter OlsonLeif Olson (who is no relation) is a well-known Texas lawyer who just landed a nice job at the U.S. Department of Labor. He's a good friend of several people at Cato, and a Facebook friend of mine, although we've met in person at most briefly. We agree on many legal issues and likely disagree on some others.
This week, in one of the most unfair hatchet jobs I've seen over the years as a watcher of Washington journalism, a Bloomberg Law reporter took a heavily sarcastic Facebook post Leif Olson wrote three years agoand presented it as meant in all sincerity -- complete with a partial screenshot which clipped off...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
The Efficiency Mandate: To Achieve Coverage, the U.S. Must Address Cost
By MIKE MAGEE, MD
It is now well established that Americans, in large majorities, favor universal health coverage. As witnessed in the first two Democratic debates, how we get there (Single Payer vs. extension of Obamacare) is another matter altogether.
295 million Americans have some form of health coverage (though increasing numbers are under-insured and vulnerable to the crushing effects of medical debt). That leaves 28 million uninsured, an issue easily resolved, according to former Obama staffer, Ezekiel Emanuel MD, through auto-enrollment, that is changing some existing policies to “enable the government...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare health reform Medical Industrial Complex Mike Magee universal healthcare Source Type: blogs
Trump's Trade Policy So Far: Too Many Trade Wars, Very Little Trade Liberalization
This past week was an eventful one for trade policy, and not in a good way. In the trade world these days, no news is good news, and any tweets are probably bad news. President Trump ’s trade policy has been stridently protectionist, abusive of the constitutional separation of powers, destructive to U.S. alliances, and fundamentally flawed as a strategy to achieve its stated goals.Last week, President Trump was agitated by China ’s retaliatory tariffs (which were in response to tariffs previously imposed by the Trump administration), and in reaction to the Chinese retaliation,Trump announced on Twitter some retaliatio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 27, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
The Presidency Didn't Get More Powers When Congress, to Its Discredit, Failed to Provide Relief to the Dreamers
In 2012 President Obama announced the policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which provided lawful status to about 1.5 million people brought to the United States illegally as kids. In 2014, he announced a follow-up policy known as DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents). While there was no significant challenge to DACA, a group of states challenged the legality of DAPA. Cato filed amicus briefs in their support at thedistrict court,circuit court, andSupreme Court. Throughout the litigation, Cato maintained that it supported DAPA as a policy matter —we were j...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Taking on China
Yesterday, President Trumpsaid the following about how he was “taking on” China in relation to its trade policy:But one thing I have to do is economically take on China because China has been ripping us off for many years. President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama, and others should have done this long before me. My life would be much easier — although I enjoy doing it — but my life would be much easier if I just said, “Let China continue to rip off the United States.” All right? It would be much easier, but I can’t do that.We are winning against China. They ’ve lost two and a half million jobs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
This really happened
The (ostensible) President of the United States cancelled a state visit to Denmark in a hissy fit over the country ' s refusal to sell Greenland.He also that the 70% of American Jews who vote Democratic are either ignorant or " disloyal. " Disloyal to what, exactly?Then he re-tweets that says the Israelis think he ' s the King of Israel and the second coming of God -- please note that Jews do not believe in the first coming of God --from a guy who:[W]as a leading proponent of the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.[25] At one point, Root falsely claimed that Obama...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Why 1619 Matters in 2019
The New York Times Magazine recently released its “1619 Project,” an initiative marking the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in North America. The project is ambitious, aiming to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding.” A collection of pundits have framed this project as an attempt to “delegimitize” the United States. Such commentary provides an opportunity to consider the state of American race relations and the role of slavery in American history. Whether or not the foundation of the United States was legitimate is an interesting political, moral, a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
How People on Twitter Are Different from Everyone Else
Tweets have become a routine part of the national conversation in the U.S. They are discussed on shows ranging from network newscasts to late-night comedy. Sometimes a big event is announced on Twitter before it is mentioned anywhere else. Tweets can even ignite or fuel social movements; #MeToo is an example.
What do we know about this platform, where so much is happening, and about the people who use it? The Pew Research Center looked into those questions and found some interesting answers. The Twitter users they studied were adults in the U.S. Here are 12 key findings.
Most People Don’t Use Twitter and Most Tweet...
Source: World of Psychology - August 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Technology News Media social media Twitter Source Type: blogs
The Case against Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Weak
Even in these divisive times, political leaders in Washington are beginning to converge on at least one issue: it ’s time to end the longest war in American history and withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. President Trump said in the Oval Office last month that “it ’s ridiculous” that we’re still there after almost two decades of stalemate and he reportedlywants to pull out by the 2020 election. His challengers on the Democratic sideseemtoagree.Although in 2017 Trump authorized a small surge of troops and left the military strategy essentially unchanged, his special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Context and Nuance, Part 4
We have reviewed the labels sociologists use for various socially constructed categories. I have not yet mentioned gender, which is obviously at least equally important, but I want to keep the number of moving parts manageable for now.Racial categories can vary from time to time and place to place, but because the theory of race is that it ' s inherited they are generally pretty rigid -- you ' re stuck in the category you were born into -- and they can also be more or less coextensive with caste. For example, people imported from Africa and their descendants were categorized both by race and caste throughout much of the na...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 10, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA
Americans spend about $3 trillion
per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these
expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts
with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic
conditions.
In policy debates, Republicans
mostly prefer to let the marketplace devise the appropriate outcomes, but this
approach ignores the market failures that plague the industry.
On the other hand, Democrats propose
a variety of solutions such as “Medicare for All” which nationalizes all
healthcare insurance or, as a variant, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
Off the Couch, Onto the Stage: My First, Only and Not-So-Great Presidential Debate
This article originally appeared on Forbes here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Democratic Debates Health Policy Politics Medicare For All Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
Private Pay Growth Tops Federal in 2018
This study examines federal compensation issues in detail, and the underlying BEA data are in section 6 tableshere. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
