Health > Care, Border Runs
November will mark the beginning of the 24th year of this blog. While my posts are far from frequent, I hope that each one is helping others in some way.
That’s always been my goal. Along these lines, I’ll offer the answer to a question I was asked by a start-up health IT company yesterday, and will also outline the process for the Costa Rica ==> Nicaragua ==> Costa Rica border run, which is both necessary and relatively easy.
Health > Care
“Dr. Reider – why are you interested / willing to help out little company?”Some context – and then my response. (After – ...
Source: Docnotes - October 21, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 24: The RFC
George Selgin(In writing this series, I allowed myself to skip over some topics. But now that I ' m turning the series into a book, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, I have to close those gaps. The most important gap by far concerns the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Although the RFC was originally established by Herbert Hoover, the Roosevelt administration not only allowed it to survive but turned it into the largest and most powerful of all New Deal agencies. Hence a three-part essay, of which this is the first installment.)Hoover ' s New DealThere are few more successful examples in history ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The Case for Expanded Shipbuilding Subsidies Remains Wanting
Colin GrabowThe United States, warns anew essay inThe Atlantic, is turning its back on the world ’s oceans with deleterious consequences for the country’s national security. While much of the piece focuses on U.S. naval power, author Jerry Hendrix also highlightsde minimis U.S. commercial shipbuilding as symptomatic of American maritime deterioration. To place the industry back on a solid footing, the former Navy captain urges the adoption of a reinvigorated subsidy regime. Past experience, however, suggests that simply throwing more money at U.S. shipbuilders is unlikely to elevate the industry beyond mediocrity. Equa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 16, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s New Legal Migration Border Plan Could Work If He Wants It To
ConclusionPresident Biden has announced one of the largest expansions in legal migration in decades, and if he succeeds in drastically reducing illegal crossings with these new procedures, it will likely lead to expansion to other nationalities. This is the first serious intentional effort to use legal migration to secure the border since the 1950s Bracero Program. Whether it succeeds depends more on how it is administered than the policy on paper, but the administration already knows the blueprint, so failure will have to include an element of intent. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Most Venezuelans Were Let in Legally in November
David J. BierOver the summer, the Biden administrationsuccessfully slashed illegal immigration from Haiti by letting Haitians apply for asylum at legal crossing points along the U.S.-Mexico border. In November, following its decision to expel Venezuelans who cross illegally, it has also begun to let many Venezuelans enter legally as well —both at airports and at the land borders. It shows how the administration can easily end the border crisis by increasing legal migration.The number of Venezuelans at legal crossing points —officially labeled “inadmissibles”—jumped to 6,817 from just 781 in October and 184 in S...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
U.S. Can ’t Afford Another Decade Without New Free Trade Agreements
Clark PackardAs 2022 winds down, it is worth noting that it has now been ten years since the United States entered into a free trade agreement (FTA) with new trading partners. Despite claims that the United States is a “hyperglobalist,” the reality is much different. In fact, as Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for international economicsnoted in his excellentForeign Affairs essay last year, the United States has been withdrawing from international economic integration for about 20 years. The consequences of a stagnant trade agenda will become more apparent and pronounced as time passes.In 2012, U.S....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Civilized and uncivilized, blood pressure response : Learning from the Kuna Indians
Welcome to Kuna island. The Kuna Indians are really unique people. living off Panama, right in the isthmus connecting North and south America, The Kunas reside in the San Blas archipelago comprising about 360 islands, of which about 60 are populated by them. They have lived on these islands for centuries, but their exact origin is not completely understood.
These innocent tribes have taught an important lesson in human blood pressure regulation, vascular biology, and salt sensitivity. We know, that high blood pressure, is a maximally researched entity in medical science in terms of etiology, vascular effects, an...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 17, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized kuna Indians and hypertension Source Type: blogs
Civilized & Uncivilized blood pressure : Learning from the Kuna Indians
Welcome to Kuna island. The Kuna Indians are really unique people. living off Panama, right in the isthmus connecting North and south America, The Kunas reside in the San Blas archipelago comprising about 360 islands, of which about 60 are populated by them. They have lived on these islands for centuries, but their exact origin is not completely understood.
These innocent tribes have taught an important lesson in human blood pressure regulation, vascular biology, and salt sensitivity. We know, that high blood pressure, is a maximally researched entity in medical science in terms of etiology, vascular effects, an...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 17, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized kuna Indians and hypertension Source Type: blogs
Civilized vs uncivilized blood pressure : Learning from the Kuna Indians
Welcome to Kuna island. The Kuna Indians are really unique people. living off Panama, right in the isthmus connecting North and south America, The Kunas reside in the San Blas archipelago comprising about 360 islands, of which about 60 are populated by them. They have lived on these islands for centuries, but their exact origin is not completely understood.
These innocent tribes have taught an important lesson in human blood pressure regulation, vascular biology, and salt sensitivity. We know, that high blood pressure, is a maximally researched entity in medical science in terms of etiology, vascular effects, an...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 17, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized kuna Indians and hypertension Source Type: blogs
U.S. Protectionism Gives Boost to Russian Energy Imports
Colin GrabowAs outrage mounts over Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine, Americans may be chagrined to learn that despite being the world’slargest oil producer and a net exporter of petroleum products, the United States turns to Russia to help meet its energy needs. Indeed, imports of Russian petroleum products have averaged over370,000 barrels per day over the last decade, and in 2020 Russia was thethird ‐largest source of U.S. petroleum imports. But why? While a number of factors explain this phenomenon, part of the answer lies in protectionist U.S. policy. More specifically, theJones Act.Passed in 1920, the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Seafood Company Hit with Jones Act Penalties over Railroad to Nowhere
Colin GrabowIn a saner world, sending frozen fish from Alaska to the East Coast would be a relatively simple undertaking. Fish or other types of seafood would be placed onto ships in Alaska and dispatched to the other side of the country for unloading and eventual transport to consumers. But domestic water transp ortation is subject to theJones Act, which means this process is not so straightforward. Ships both capable of handling items requiring cold storage and compliant with the law ’s strictures are expensive and few in number. And none operate regularly scheduled service from Alaska to destinations beyond the Wes...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Examining the Jones Act ’s Harm to U.S. Ports
Colin GrabowEarlier this weekWall Street Journal columnist Mary O ’Grady penned anexcellent piece detailing the myriad ways in which U.S. maritime protectionism interferes and distorts trade. Some of the examples presented may be familiar, such as theimperilment of Alaska ’s summer cruise season. But the column also delves into effects of the law that are often overlooked, such as its impact on ports:The Jones Act is particularly costly to Puerto Rico because it keeps the island from capitalizing on its comparative advantage as a transit point for cargo. Colin Grabow, who heads the Cato Institute’sProject on Jones ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
We Are the Ever Given
By KIM BELLARD
The Ever Given is free!
Admit it: you’ve been following the story about the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. It’s about the size of the Empire State building laid flat, and somehow ended up blocking one of the busiest waterways in the world.
As serious as this was for global shipping and all of us who depend on it, much hilarity ensued. Memes exploded, using this as a metaphor for almost everything, healthcare included. Once there started to be hope for getting the Ever Given free, people started new memes that it should be “put back.”
Well,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy COVID-19 Ever Given Kim Bellard Suez Canal Source Type: blogs
One Year of Daily Blogging: Lessons and Insights
Today officially concludes my one-year daily blogging challenge that I committed to a little over a year ago. I started on December 24, 2019 and have published a new blog post or video every day since them. So that’s 374 days in a row if you include today’s post.
As you can verify from the blog archives, I successfully completed the challenge.
I’ve been blogging every year since I started in 2004, but this is the first year that I’ve published something new every single day. This was an interesting experience, so I’ll share some thoughts about what it was like, some of which might surpri...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
One Year of Daily Blogging: Lessons and Insights
Today officially concludes my one-year daily blogging challenge that I committed to a little over a year ago. I started on December 24, 2019 and have published a new blog post or video every day since them. So that’s 374 days in a row if you include today’s post.
As you can verify from the blog archives, I successfully completed the challenge.
I’ve been blogging every year since I started in 2004, but this is the first year that I’ve published something new every single day. This was an interesting experience, so I’ll share some thoughts about what it was like, some of which might surpri...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
