Day: March 12, 2010

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Cuba’s doctor abuse

Remember Cuba's vaunted medical missionaries — those who treated the poor abroad for nothing, supposedly out of selfless motives? A lawsuit shows they were nothing but a communist slave racket. It ought to bear a few lessons for our own country as the role of doctors in the health care

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Some light at the end of the tunnel

Karima Brown’s piece Eskom to open door to private producers (Business Day 02-03-2010) reports:

· ESKOM is expected to sign co-generation agreements with independent power producers this month in its first concrete step towards bringing in the private sector to help address SA’s electricity supply shortfall.

· [Public Enterprises Minister Barbara] Hogan said

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The Massachusetts

Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for “universal coverage” are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to do lasting damage to one of America’s

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Healthcare costs will increase and continue increasing

Articles and speeches about rising healthcare costs are becoming more frequent. Witch-hunts to identify who among the providers of health care are the main culprits follow. Who is it that cruelly seeks to make excessive profits out of the pain and suffering of the ill and dying?

In an interview with

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