Medicare Advantage was Neither
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 4th, 2009 5:37 am by HL
Medicare Advantage was Neither
WASHINGTON — Good riddance to Medicare Advantage disadvantage. President Barack Obama’s bid to reduce the taxpayer-funded slush fund that flows to the managed-care insurance industry through Medicare is an emphatic, if overdue, effort to turn Washington around. So be ready for insurance-industry propaganda masquerading as concern for the elderly — and know that the facts belie the industry’s fantasies.
Canada Profits From Bizarre U.S. Bans
When a pizzeria closes, the pizzeria down the block usually sees a surge in business. That principle applies to commerce in the larger North American neighborhood. Whenever the United States locks the gate on a plausible economic activity, Canadians move in and profit. The Bush administration’s hostility toward stem-cell science created opportunity in Canada. Starved of adequate federal support, American labs doing this cutting-edge science shrank or closed down, and many of their researchers moved to Canada. Between 2002 and 2007, the number of American university professors and assistants relocating to Canada jumped 27 percent, according to Canadian immigration officials. Some were stars in stem-cell research.
