Health Care

Paul Summerville • February 23, 2013

Commentary on America’s medical system, you so don’t want to go there.

Charlie Rose -- Steven Brill

 

Paul Summerville • July 2, 2012

Commentary on the reasons countries fall apart, Conrad on the United Nation’s bungled mission, in praise of immigration, running out of growth lubricant, strange times in Myanmar, a new economic strategy for Japan, and for some Canada’s greatest achievement is a publically funded health care system.

10 sad stories.

Paul Summerville • June 30, 2012

Commentary on the US Supreme Court’s new ground, the problem with Canadian health care, rich Canada, and the CBC and market lessons.

The other ruling that mattered.

New York Times – A Pyrrhic Victory
THE obvious victor in the Supreme Court’s health care decision was President Obama, who risked vast amounts of political capital to pass the Affordable Care Act.

Paul Summerville • June 29, 2012

Commentary on the Chief Justice’s decision, good news from Europe, and Jeff Simpson is tired of the state debate.

Did Obama win the battle but lose the war?

Real Clear Politics -- The Chief Justice's Gambit
In 1803, the chief justice of the United States had a problem.

Related.

Paul Summerville • April 20, 2012

Commentary on Saskatchewan’s health care fix, how will the French election impact Euro bailouts, Iranian dance, phoney wars, and health care thinking.

Kaizen for health care.

CBC -- Premier Wall discusses health care on CBC's Power & Politics
Premier Brad Wall discusses the rising costs of health care and their impact on the provinces with Evan Solomon, host of CBC's Power & Politics on April 18, 2012.

Hollandaise sauce on Schnitzel.

Paul Summerville • April 19, 2012

Inching towards free trade in health care.

New Yorker – Club Med
This year, a few hundred thousand intrepid American travellers will head to places like Thailand and Costa Rica, in search of something that they can’t find in the United States.

Quote worth noting.

Paul Summerville • March 30, 2012

Commentary on France’s myopic narcissism, Harper's timid budget, and how the Supreme Court may overturn Obamacare.

Right sizing.

Financial Times -- France votes to shut out the world
Not so long ago François Hollande was a racing certainty to win the Elysée.

Related.

Paul Summerville • May 13, 2011

Gee, did those guys at Goldman Sachs fib to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on April 27, 2010 in Washington, DC?

Read all about it.

Articles also about the global economy from ex-Goldman Sachs' chief economist, Jeremy Grantham’s warning about commodity prices, why Canadians play hockey tough, Samuel Brittan argues that policy makers are worrying about the wrong things, and the case for Greece and Portugal to exit the Euro.

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Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
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