Observe that while fulfilling the role of the medium of savings, money is not savings. An increase in money will not result in more savings. An increase in savings requires the increase in the production of consumer goods all other …
Category: Consumption Inequality
The IMF’s Recipe for Equal Levels of Decline and Stagnation | International Liberty
…after reading a new study from the International Monetary Fund, I’m wondering if I’m underestimating the left’s fixation with inequality and the amount of economic damage they’re willing to inflict to achiever greater equality of outcomes. Here are some introductory passages to …
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Physician Shortage: An Alternative View by the Numbers | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
For the sake of brevity, I am not going to show my math. Trust me, I’m a doctor! Here are the average panel sizes based on the assumptions above using 2012 census data. FP/GP = 1,041 patients per doc IM/IM-Peds …
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Nobody Is Pushing Thomas Piketty’s Policies to Combat Economic Inequality – Michael Barone – Page full
A recent Congressional Budget Office report shows that when you measure federal taxes paid minus federal transfers received welfare, food stamps, Social Security, etc., the top 20 percent of earners pay an average of $46,500. The next 20 percent pay …
Is Medicaid-Associated Overuse of Emergency Departments Just a Temporary Surge? | Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org
What is important to remember about Medicaid and similar programs is that you can sign up when you need care. People with private insurance can only sign up during open-enrollment periods. Sure, the people who sign up for Medicaid will …
Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s – NYTimes.com
THOUGH the recent release of Medicare’s physician payments cast a spotlight on the millions of dollars paid to some specialists, there is a startling secret behind America’s health care hierarchy: Physicians, the most highly trained members in the industry’s work …
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A Tiger of a Book – Thomas Sowell – Page full
Those in the media, in politics and in academia who seem determined to blame American society for individuals and groups who do not rise would be hard-pressed to explain why immigrants of various colors come in at the bottom and …
The Affordable Coffee Act » Eric Peters Autos
I mean, why not? If government – using its magical powers – can make health care “affordable” why not make everything people need (and hell, everything they want) affordable? It’s a little mean-spirited to lower the cost of going to …
