The Oklahoma Legislature is working to create personal health accounts (PHAs) for Medicaid enrolees. Is the United States on the verge of consumer revolution in health care, ask Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute?
It is too soon to
(A new vocabulary for world trade flat, kaleidoscope what next?)
Observers of the ever-increasing globalisation of the economy argue that countries such as China and India are advancing to the point where the world is becoming “flat,” says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. In other words, the United
The United Nations estimates that it needs more than $20 billion by the end of the decade to provide preventive education and medicines to the growing number of people infected with HIV/AIDs.
In response, a group of 14 nations, led by France, has proposed a tax on airline tickets that is
The number of pharmaceutical industry-sponsored clinical trials has been declining since 2002, and the number of principal investigators running trials in the United States has been falling even faster, according to a study by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
Using information from forms submitted to Food and
We are told that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may represent the end of the free market system: from now on there will be regulation to govern every significant commercial activity that might hold some potentially hazardous consequence for the planet. This assessment is almost certainly correct, but
A wealth tax is not the kind of structural reform SA needs
