Three-dimensional radiation costs roughly $10,000. A somewhat newer treatment, I.M.R.T., initially cost $42,000. And an even more recent treatment, proton radiation therapy, costs $50,000. The newer treatments do not seem to be more effective at keeping patients alive than three-dimensional radiation, so under the proposal all three treatments would be reimbursed (after the three-year trial… Continue reading Reforming Medicare’s Payment System
A Far Away Country Of Which We Know Nothing
I’ve been getting a lot of correspondence lately that runs something like this: You’re an idiot. Give me one example in all of history of a country that spent its way out of a depressed economy Ahem. There’s this country — people may not have heard of it — called the United States of America:… Continue reading A Far Away Country Of Which We Know Nothing
MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate
Outside the Conway-Paul debate, a Rand Paul supporter pulled the woman’s blonde wig off and stomped on her head. She was representing the liberal organization MoveOn.org From MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate | Crooks and Liars Gee, don’t they know libertarians are against initiation of force? But I’m sure… Continue reading MoveOn Member’s Head Stomped By Violent Cowards At Rand Paul Debate
Parallel universe breakthrough
“Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions… These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments.” From CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough – Yahoo! News I bet they peer into the Parallel Universe only to see… Continue reading Parallel universe breakthrough
Cthulhu pot pie?
laughingsquid: Tentacle Pot Pie For Zadi. From laughingsquid: Tentacle Pot Pie For Zadi. Looks like Cthulhu pot pie.
The value of a dollar
For his The Value of a Dollar project, Jonathan Blaustein took photographs of the amount of food he could purchase for a dollar. From The value of a dollar Interesting contrast between cheap food and good food.
Founding Fathers’ papers to be accessible online
The University of Virginia Press is putting the published papers of Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin on a National Archives website that is expected to be accessible to the public in 2012. When complete, the website will allow users to read, browse and search the text of tens of… Continue reading Founding Fathers’ papers to be accessible online
Yglesias on suburbanization
Fundamentally, I think Fannie and Freddie as they existed pre-crisis represented a bad implementation of the bad idea that government policy should promote the construction of large single-family owner-occupied housing. But the concept of pro-suburbanization industrial policy seems very broadly supported in American politics. From Yglesias » The Pricey Bailout Good point. Much of this… Continue reading Yglesias on suburbanization
Christine O’Donnell really is that dumb.
After that debate my team and I we were literally high fiving each other thinking that we had exposed he doesn’t know the First Amendment, and then when we read the reports that said the opposite we were all like “what?” From Christine O’Donnell really is that dumb. Looks like she really is that dumb.
It Is Not Just John Maynard Keynes, It Is Milton Friedman Who Is Being Thrown Over the Side
Any time that the views of Milton Friedman are denounced as those of a left-wing semi-socialist kook, something has gone very, very wrong. From It Is Not Just John Maynard Keynes, It Is Milton Friedman Who Is Being Thrown Over the Side – Grasping Reality with Both Hands Quote of the day. I used to… Continue reading It Is Not Just John Maynard Keynes, It Is Milton Friedman Who Is Being Thrown Over the Side