Jeff Sessions was the first US Senator to support Donald Trump early in his campaign at a time when Trump’s campaign was regarded as a joke by most Americans who just thought that the billionaire was enjoying the media attention…
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The irrationality of obsessing about gun violence
Once again, Vox Media gets the importance of gun violence all wrong. Brian Resneck says, “America’s teens are [right to be] extremely stressed out about school shootings”. No, no, no. Schools are extremely safe places and mass shooters are extremely…
Posted in Violence & Peace
“no other nation has the equivalent of American college sports.”
College football might be in the news because of CTE lawsuits that might end the game, but Saahil Desai at The Atlantic points out other problems with college sports. He argues that college athletics are sucking resources out of our…
Posted in Labor
Monopolistic competition in health care
According to Modern Healthcare magazine, medical ambulances charged between $26,000 and over a half million dollars for each individual flight in North Dakota over the past four years. The prices averaged around $60,000 which is extremely steep given that almost…
Posted in Health, Public Finance
Criminalizing drugs makes about as much sense as criminalizing depression.
Which has a greater cost to society, depression or addiction? The estimated burden on America is similar. The White House reported in 2014: The economic cost of drug abuse in the US was estimated at $193 billion in 2007, the…
Posted in Health, Public Finance
Failures of Obamacare and possible reforms
Jon Walker wrote a wonderful critique of Obamacare that Kevin Drum published in pieces so I’m copying it below so that it is all in one place. 1. State control combined with zero direct incentives for the states to make…
Posted in Health
Medianism 