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Katherine Fullerton, a pediatric emergency physician, makes a nice point. If we want complete and candid electronic medical records, we must protect patients from discrimination based on what such records reveal.
Archive for February, 2011
February 15th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Religion and Politics, Republican Party, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives
Want to know what those terrible men of Sodom were doing? Really?
February 15th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
This piece claims that the modern Republican Party does not believe in science. Riley Dunlap has conducted the best work that I know of on documenting long run trends in views on climate change as a function of political affiliation. Below, I report the type of graph he creates and analyzes.
February 15th, 2011
Category: Watching Conservatives
Volokh Conspirator Jonathan Adler makes fun of me for attributing to some libertarians a position – that taxation to pay for protecting the Earth from an incoming asteroid would be unjustified – which Volokh Conspirator Sasha Volokh actually maintains.
February 15th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act
In similar fashion to my previous post. Calling all health policy wonks: What are some good arguments–pro and con–regarding governors’ requests to transfer Medicaid recipients into the new health insurance exchanges? I’m naturally suspicious, but not from a careful evidence-based perspective.
February 15th, 2011
Over the past three years, we have experienced an amazing number of political, economic, and legislative trials. Have your views changed on anything important?
February 15th, 2011
Category: Watching Conservatives
He’s not sure about whether the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Conservative Political Action Committee.
February 14th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
In the 1990s, economists were always in search of such a natural experiment. ““It seems like horses are always among the first to go when it comes to budget cuts,” said Mitchel P. Roth, a professor of criminology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Tex., who has studied mounted patrols over the centuries.” Such [...]
February 14th, 2011
Category: Education policy
One teacher, one blackboard, thirty students: a recipe for educational bankruptcy.