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Rationing Defined
Taking items that are in short supply and distributing them according to a system. For instance, during World War II, gas, sugar, and butter were a few of the items rationed in the United States.
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Technology's unclear impact on health care
Published July 5, 2009, 12:48 am, The News Journal
President Obama made information technology a linchpin in his plan to reform health care when he included $19 billion in computerized medical record funding in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The secret lives of collectors
Published July 4, 2009, 8:48 am, Central Plains Herald-Leader
"I grew up near their habitat, near my hometown — and then I just like the majestic quality of the moose," she explained. "I also like the way they depict them in cartoons. I find it a very interesting animal that translates well into the comic form.
The secret lives of collectors
Published July 3, 2009, 10:11 pm, Portage Daily Graphic
If you love something set it free. The old adage may be true to many, but for the world's collectors the best thing about loving something is giving it a permanent home in the rec room: cherishing the object, noticing its unique characteristics, and preserving it for posterity.[...]
On Independence Day, soldiers put freedom in perspective
Published July 3, 2009, 5:00 pm, Wisconsin State Journal
Since arriving home from Iraq two weeks ago in time for the birth of his second son, Sgt. Michael Lubinski has been in amateur photographer heaven. Today, he'll supplement the dozens of baby pictures with photos of fireworks. It's a rare break from military routine for Lubinski who, like most of the 3,200 Wisconsin National Guard members in Iraq, works 12-hour days, six days a week. And it will ...
The Economics of Illusion
Published July 3, 2009, 6:57 am, Ludwig von Mises Institute
Quite briefly the essence of the late Lord Keynes's work The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money is: employment fluctuates with the intensity of effective demand, which depends, given a certain propensity to consume, upon the amount of investment — the spending of purchasing power for the purpose of adding to capital equipment.
Socorro celebrates the Fourth of July
Published July 3, 2009, 6:09 am, El Defensor Chieftain
The Fourth of July has long been a favorite holiday in Socorro. Here's a look at some July 4th celebrations of the past, and how our famous fireworks show came about.
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Published July 2, 2009, 8:23 pm, The Edmond Sun
EDMOND — Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is historically qualified to be part of Saturday’s ceremony honoring the city’s World War II veterans.
Docs Plan Strike, Issue Own Declaration of Independence
Published July 2, 2009, 11:28 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.----On Independence Day, Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine will take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare. This nonprofit organization's web site states that their most pressing goal is to mobilize doctors to go on strike against any new government healthcare plans.
Rural Living
Published July 2, 2009, 2:58 am, Farmers Weekly Interactive
Farming is a cyclical business, but some periods stand out when it was generally buoyant and profitable and fun to be in farming.
Hot Button
Published July 2, 2009, 2:34 am, The Washington Times
DeMint's crusade Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, is calling attention to the growing sense of "socialism" he's seeing in Washington in a new book, "Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide Into Socialism." Mr. DeMint, who was ranked as the Senate's most conservative member in 2006, is often a lonely voice in that chamber, waging war on earmarks and big spending bills as well as ...
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- State cuts its health coverage by $115m - The Boston Globe: "Overseer s of Massachusetts? trailblazing healthcare program made their first cuts yesterday, trimming $115 million, or 12 percent, from Commonwealth Care, which subsidizes premiums for needy residents and is the centerpiece of the 2006 law." In the meantime, nothing is said about the penalties handed down for those who do not have healthcare. It is only fair that the penalty is now eliminated. This is the program of which Obama shouted accolades. The bottom line is that Universal Healthcare is extremely expensive as indicated in this article. So wake up America, if Mass. is eliminating dental coverage, how much rationing do you think will occur on a national level?
- Amazon.com: Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy): Martin A. Strosberg, Joshua M. Wiener, Robert Baker, I. Alan Fein: Books
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- Economic Scene - Rhetoric of Rationing Health Care Overlooks Reality - NYTimes.com
- Obamacare meets the reality of nationalized health care: Rationing and long lines | Washington Examiner: Long waits for critical treatment are inevitable in government-run health care systems for one simple reason: Making health care ?free? creates an infinite demand for medical services. But no country can satisfy an infinite demand, so government bureaucrats always end up rationing health care. Long lines of people waiting for services are the result. It?s the same process that produced long waiting lines for decades in the Soviet Union for basic necessities like bread and housing.
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