Switzerland's consumer-driven health care (CDHC) system offers an alternative to the American model for health care that avoids some of the pitfalls of a government-run system, say Regina Herzlinger and Ramin Parsa-Parsi, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
CDHC combines three major elements:
Freeing demand: Consumers buy health insurance
Environmentalists have rediscovered the old adage, “better safe than sorry,” and repackaged it as the “precautionary principle.” While there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the principle, all of its formulations call for reducing, if not eliminating, risks to public health, the environment or both, says independent scholar Indur M.
A study of lichens in the French Alps adds to a growing body of evidence that contradicts the notion that 20th century warming is either CO2-induced or unprecedented.
According to two researchers, high-altitude avalanche activity during the Little Ice Age (LIA) reached its greatest maximum in about A.D. 1830. The researchers
The chicken pox vaccine has saved the United States about $100 million per year in health care costs, according to a recent study by the University of Michigan published in Paediatrics magazine.
As of 2001, hospital bills related to the disease have declined by 59 percent since the vaccine came on
American citizens have significantly higher incomes than Europeans, measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per person. Some say this reflects America’s superior capitalist system. The Economist, however, argues that this simply reflects Europe’s greater preference for leisure.
Over the past 50 years, both Europe and America had productivity gains, but
