Speaking of freedom, the World Happiness Report issued by independent researchers last month finds Denmark is the happiest country on the planet. Canada reaches sixth in a top ten filled with countries with national health care of some sort. The…
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I'm having trouble finding anyone in South Dakota to tell me that throwing our military might at Syria is a good idea. Former Senator Jim Abourezk spoke forcefully on SDPB yesterday noon against U.S. military intervention in Syria. Abourezk's wife…
Elizabeth Rosenthal as been burning up the pages of the New York Times with her series on the high cost of health care in the United States. I mentioned her July 1 article on the high cost of childbirth in…
A friend from Canada visited us at Lake Herman this weekend. Fun people that we are, we peppered each other with questions about our nations' health care systems. Our friend shared one anecdote that should give pause to anyone thinking…
Knowing how much our food supply depends on chemicals bums me out. Using those chemicals to fight weeds may also bum out farmers, says new research from France: [Harvard professor Marc] Weisskopf's group reports in the American Journal of Epidemiology…
Speaking of spending more and not getting more, Mark Thoma points to this Wall Street Journal article discussing health care spending as a percentage of GDP in the 34 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Rare is…
My friend and Madison ex-pat Wendell Garwood moved to Finland in 1999. Finland's universal health care system hasn't killed him yet. Wendell has his waits, and he misses having his own regular doctor, but the Finnish system is keeping him,…
An eager reader sends me this CNN photo-story of Ohio teachers posing with their guns. (For the benefit of South Dakota's legislators, shall I emphasize the word posing?) After I got past the silly comment from firearms instructor Alan Wheeler…