The 2006 Massachusetts law that required nearly everyone to buy health insurance has not significantly staunched residents' pain from medical bankruptcies, according to a new study, reports the Boston Globe.
A survey of Massachusetts residents who filed for bankruptcy in July 2009 found that 53 per cent cited a medical cause,
Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was nationalised by President Mobutu Sese Seko on 31 December 1966, forming the new mining giant Gécamines (Générale de Carrières et des Mines). Initially, the original personnel were retained but over time the employees were replaced by political cronies. Between 1989 and
A few years ago, Britain's National Health Service (NHS) first considered refusing to treat obese people for lifestyle-related illnesses. In the same vein, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the NHS's guidance body, produced advice that raised the prospect of heavy smokers and obese people being refused
Regardless of what precisely the ANCYL has in mind as a “model”, there is a bald (unsubstantiated) assumption that nationalisation will increase the state’s “fiscal capacity”.
No one has, as far as we could establish, provided evidence to the effect that nationalisation is likely to have net fiscal benefits. Economist Dawie
