Self ‐defeating Protectionism Plagues Biden Administration’s “Invest in America” Tour
Colin GrabowThis week the Biden administration kicked off its “Invest in America” tour aimed at highlighting White House ‐backed initiatives such as the CHIPS and Science Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. While meant to showcase the White House’s legislative achievements, the public relations blitz serves as a reminder of how the administration ’s stated goals are being undermined by protectionist measures that it supports. Here’s a closer look at some of those visits and the protectionist lessons that can be learned from each.President Biden ’s visit to a North Carolina ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Oman ’s National Health Security
Abdul Aziz Al Alawi (Sultan Qaboos University), Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad (Sultan Qaboos University), The Impacts of COVID-19 on Oman ’s National Health Security, SSRN (2022): The COVID-19 has had a massive impact on the Oman national health security system, putting... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 8, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Iron(y) in Steel Protectionism
Scott Lincicome andGabriella Beaumont-SmithIn the midst of highinflation, the federal government continues to build on bad policies for the U.S. housing market. Instead of addressing current rules creating an inflexible environment for building houses, the government imposed new duties on steel nails, a crucial component for home construction. These duties will increase the cost of construction, further contributing to scarce housing and higher home prices.Last month, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) predictablydetermined that the U.S. nail industry has been injured by “dumped” and “subsidi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD
COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that
used to live in bats has a new host. And
that strand is clearly not the flu. New
York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and
refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift
morgues. Detroit, New Orleans, Miami,
and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath. America’s health care workers are scrambling
to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate
that’s hard to fathom.
I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
New Maritime Report Marked by Factual Errors and Dubious Claims
Colin GrabowThe Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments recently released a report on the U.S. maritime sector that hasgarneredconsiderablepraise from the Jones Act lobby. That ’s no surprise. EntitledStrengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base, the report explicitly calls for the Jones Act ’s retention. Overlooked amidst the plaudits, however, are factual errors and dubious assertions that call its endorsement of the law into question. This blog post will lay some of these out.Factual errorsThe report includes a number of factual errors. In this section, I note these incorrect cl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Reinventing CDS Requires Humility in the Face of Overwhelming Complexity
Paul Cerrato and I have created a new book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support, our first to be published about Platform thinking. Although it is being published during my tenure at Mayo Clinic, it is not endorsed by Mayo Clinic and represents the personal opinions of Paul and me. Below is the preface.In our last book, on mobile health(1), we wrote about the power of words such as cynicism, optimism, and transformation. Another word with powerful connotations is misdiagnosis. To a patient whose condition remains undetected, it is a source of frustration and anger. To a physician or nurse who has be...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
A Physician Letter Essay Sample
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From: Dr. Abu Salim Idris (Consultant Neurologist at KPJ Tawakkal
Hospital/ MMC NO 23250 / nsr 124687/)
To: Whom it may concern
I Am writing regarding the health of
my patient, name: MOHAMED YAHYA RASHEED AL JUMA,
Passport NO: VP3153200 (OMAN), D.O.B: 01/07/1991
The above-mentioned patient was born on the 1st day of July 1991 in Oman
and a student at the KDU University in Malaysia. The student is set to go back
for hi...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: elan peter Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Joe Biden on Impeachment for Illegal Warmaking
I don ’t know if the moderators oftonight ’s Democratic primary debate are taking requests, but here ’s my question for former vice-president—and current frontrunner—Joe Biden:“Mr. Biden, the last time you were running for president, you promised that if George W. Bush ‘takes this nation to war in Iran, without congressional approval,I will make it my business to impeach him.’ Now, over a decade later, war with Iran is again on the horizon, and just this Monday,the president said he does not need congressional authorization to wage war. If he acts on that belief,will you call for Congress to impeach Preside...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 27, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
New Insights Into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw From Society For Months Or Years On End
By Emma Young
Hikikomori is a dark term that describes people who stay holed up in their homes, or even just their bedrooms, isolated from everyone except their family, for many months or years. The phenomenon has captured the popular imagination with many articles appearing in the mainstream media in recent years, but, surprisingly, it isn’t well understood by psychologists.
The condition was first described in Japan, but cases have since been reported in countries as far apart as Oman, Indian, the US and Brazil. No one knows how many hikikomori exist (the term refers both to the condition and the people with it), but...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Mental health Source Type: blogs
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
Remembering Uwe
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
The healthcare world learned with great sadness this week of the passing of our friend, Uwe Reinhardt. I met Uwe in 1982 at the Federation of American Hospitals meeting in Las Vegas. Uwe opened the meeting by apologizing, in his disarming German accent, for not being his usual sharp self. He had, he said, skipped breakfast because his wife May had instructed him not to pay for anything in Las Vegas that he could get for free at home. This was vintage Reinhardt, innocent and knowing at the same time. That meeting was the beginning of a long and warm friendship.
Uwe would have been acutely uncomfortable wi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Special For Father's Day - Not Digital Health - North Korea Are Saying They Have Just Tested A Hydrogen Bomb!
I hope Trump is taking his medicine in double doses!
What a stupid North Korean dictator!
David.
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 3, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Looking at EHR Internationally
Today, I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dubai (Check out my full health IT conference schedule) looking out over this incredible city. This is the 3rd time I’ve come to Dubai to teach an EHR workshop and so I’ve had a chance to fall in love with some many things. Not the least of which is the people that come to participate in the workshop. Each time is a unique perspective with people coming from around the middle east including countries like Saudia Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and of course Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE to name a few.
There’s something incredible about coming to a place that is ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Dubai EHR EHR Conferences Healthcare IT Conferences Middle East EHR Saudi Arabia EHR 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
