Prescription: More Doctors
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 4th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Prescription: More Doctors
Michael Johns & Edward Miller, Baltimore Sun
18° FJanuary 1, 2010Copyright © 2010, The Baltimore Sun Comments: 01400 characters remaining Drs. Hohns and Miller are absolutely correct. In order to encourage more medical students to go into family practice and internal medicine, I would support a tax exemption on the first $50,000 of income for anyone in these fields, and extend this also to nurse practitioners and physician's assistants….
It’s Payback Time for California
Peter Schrag, San Francisco Chronicle
It's a long list: the budget-process meltdown in Sacramento; the ugly combination of escalating fees and reduced programs and access at the California State University and University of California systems; the K-12 teacher layoffs and, along with them, the increasingly crowded classes; the Friday closings of state offices. Nor should we be surprised at the near-record voter-disapproval numbers for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature, or the predictions from the state legislative analyst that, barring major fixes, California faces a $20 billion deficit in the 2010-11 budget…
Climategate: You Should Be Steamed
Neil Frank, Houston Chronicle
Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next step in the man-made global warming controversy? Without question, there should be an immediate and thorough investigation of the scientific debauchery revealed by “Climategate.”If you have not heard, hackers penetrated the computers of the Climate Research Unit, or CRU, of the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia, exposing thousands of e-mails and other documents. CRU is one of the top climate research centers in the world. Many of the exchanges were between top mainstream climate scientists in Britain and…
