From The New York Times: Health Insurance Companies Try to Shape Rules Companies are lobbying to ward off strict regulation of premiums and profits under the new health care law. http://nyti.ms/aOODk0
May 12, 2010
Economist’s View May 9, 2010 12:17 PM by Mark Thoma Daniel Little returns to the topic of social mobility: Urban inequalities and social mobility, by Daniel Little: Most American cities commonly look a lot like this poverty map of Cleveland when it comes to the spatial distribution of poverty and affluence. There is a high-poverty… [Read more…]
May 12, 2010
Greg Mankiw’s Blog May 12, 2010 6:00 AM by Greg Mankiw Harvard’s Dani Rodrik thinks that recent events in Greece may have a deeper meaning: Deep down, the crisis is yet another manifestation of what I call “the political trilemma of the world economy”: economic globalization, political democracy, and the nation-state are mutually irreconcilable. We… [Read more…]
May 7, 2010
Bioethics Forum May 5, 2010 9:54 AM by Susan Gilbert The New England Journal of Medicine in February published the results of a deeply flawed clinical trial in South Africa. The SAPIT (Starting Antiretroviral Therapy at Three Points in Tuberculosis Therapy) trial was designed to determine the most effective way to treat patients infected with… [Read more…]
May 6, 2010
From The New York Times: NEWS ANALYSIS: Tylenol, Generics and Trust After a wide recall of children’s drugs, many parents are questioning the value, and sense of security, when buying a name brand over cheaper generic medicines. http://nyti.ms/dCJkWO
May 5, 2010
From The New York Times: Teaching Physicians the Price of Care Until recently, most medical schools provided little information on financial factors, like how the insurance system works and how treatment costs affect patients’ behavior. http://nyti.ms/b0lzKK
May 4, 2010
Ethics Newsline® May 3, 2010 8:48 PM by Carl Hausman by Rushworth M. Kidder Last week was a turbulent one for Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street giant accused of deceiving its clients during the recent housing-market meltdown. On Tuesday the firm took a drubbing from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “I don’t know if… [Read more…]
May 4, 2010
From The New York Times: Poll Shows Most in U.S. Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws The number of Americans who describe illegal immigration as a serious problem has grown, and a slim majority supports Arizona’s stringent new law, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. http://nyti.ms/a4ngph
May 1, 2010
philosophy.com April 20, 2010 5:50 AM by Gary Sauer-Thompson In her review of Denis G. Arnold (ed.), Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine Lisa Newton highlights the core issue: the recent move of the professions of health care from a service orientation to market orientation. This is crucial transformation and it is what sits behind… [Read more…]
May 1, 2010
Experimental Philosophy April 25, 2010 3:04 PM by Antti Kauppinen Many ordinary people appear to be willing to allow that whipping a sailor drunk on duty was acceptable 300 years ago while thinking that it would be morally wrong to do so now. Many also think that abusing military trainees is okay if the Pentagon… [Read more…]
April 30, 2010
From The New York Times: OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Shades of Prejudice “Colorism” may be harder to combat than racism, as research studies have shown that skin tone and other racial features play powerful roles in who gets ahead. http://s.nyt.com/u/rus
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