Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Should Employers Be Responsible for Providing Health Insurance?
Many people gain access to the healthcare system through insurance that is provided at least in part by their employer. And yet, most uninsured people are employed, almost half full time. In many countries it is the employer's responsibility to prov...
Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Medical Priorities and Supply-side Controls
Policy makers not only seek to make baseline health care available to everyone, but are asked to determine what kinds of medical needs should be given priority. Great Britain has been making what are essentially rationing decisions for decades, spen...
Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Serving the Unserved
Two clinics, at opposite ends of the country--Tindeco Health Center in Baltimore Maryland and the Venice Family Clinic in California--each serve vast numbers of people who would not otherwise have healthcare. The patients at these clinic are among t...
Federal Workplace, The: Well-intentioned Red Tape Impedes Efficiency
When there is a problem in the federal workplace, Congress or the regulatory apparatus of the bureaucracy itself will add a new law or rule. The result is thousands of pages of regulations that grind work to a halt. Requirements related to due proce...