Rise in Healthcare Costs Doubles That of Inflation

The findings of an expansive study on healthcare costs conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers were released today, revealing the annual increase in the cost of health care is almost twice as high as the rise in the nation’s overall rate of inflation. Read more

Trust a Politician To Fix Healthcare

Thomas Kuhn proposed that scientific theories should be looked on not as not dealing with purely scientific facts, but also as systems of belief relating to a wider context, a frame of reference consisting of interlocking scientific, social and even political ideas. This ideological context, that Kuhn termed a paradigm, “Is implicitly agreed upon by scientists who subscribe to a particular theory and who share the same worldview.” Paul Feyerabend wryly noted that suppressing an authentic paradigm, in preference to one politically favored, could permanently damage society. Read more

Health Care 16.3% of GDP and Climbing

The amount of money Americans spent on health care in 2007 is somewhat staggering - a whopping 16.3% of the national gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is the sum total of the value of all goods and services from all industries within the United States. Read more