As the word spreads about the high-quality care and cut-rate surgery available in countries such as India, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, a growing stream of uninsured and underinsured Americans are boarding planes not for the typical face-lift or tummy tuck, but for discount hip replacements and sophisticated heart surgeries.
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The architects of the cradle-to-grave Swedish welfare system said that if it couldn’t work there, it wouldn’t work anywhere. Well, it didn’t and it doesn’t, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
Funding the welfare state is a massive strain on a free economy. Entitlements and the administrative bureaucracy to manage it must
Africa desperately needs Western help in the form of schools, clinics and sweatshops, says Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.
Even though many people despise sweatshops, the poor see them as opportunities; therefore, anyone who cares about fighting poverty should campaign in favour of sweatshops and demand that companies set
Exposure to Communism has made East Germans much more pro-state than West Germans, says the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
According to researchers:
This effect could arise due to indoctrination (such as teaching the virtues of Communism in the schools) or simply due to becoming used to an intrusive public
In an elite tweak on home schooling, a growing number of families are choosing the ultimate in private school: hiring teachers to educate their children in their own homes, says Susan Saulny of the New York Times.
Parents say in-home teaching arrangements offer unparalleled levels of academic attention and flexibility in
