Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money? Lawrence Wittner | Updated Sep 20, 2014 Professor of History emeritus, SUNY Albany Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators — unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt) — are […]

Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,” and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” Hillsdale was the […]

A disturbing report from the front lines of the war on cancer By Malcolm Gladwell http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/14/tough-medicine In the fall of 1963, not long after Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., joined the National Cancer Institute as a clinical associate, he and his wife were invited to a co-worker’s party. At the door, one of the institute’s most […]

ANNALS of HEALTH CARE: OVERKILL An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially What can we do about it? By ATUL GAWANDE, MD | The New Yorker Magazine | June 11, 2015 It was lunchtime before my afternoon surgery clinic, which meant that I was at my desk, eating a ham-and-cheese […]

At the end of your life, your family will miss you more if you die from smoking than from drinking. Cigarettes merely rot your lungs; alcohol rots your soul. By the time you die from too much booze, your family can’t wait for you to go. It takes a long time for a stiff to […]

NCPA | Policy Reports | Health | No. 372  Tuesday, September 22, 2015 by Devon M. Herrick Executive Summary The long-term solvency of Medicare is the most serious domestic policy problem this country faces in the 21st century. Despite the rosy forecasts from politicians, the Medicare Trustees confirm that health care spending will consume an increasing proportion of the economy. […]

Car-Care Crisis? September 16, 2015 The U.S. healthcare’s third-party payer system has created a national crisis where we are spending more than ever while failing to ensure access for our citizens. The health insurance system abets this crisis by adding administrative costs, regulatory compliance burdens, and bureaucratic interference. Many consumers are caught unwittingly in this […]

April 15th, tax day! (But not this year; this year, it’s Emancipation Day, which is worth observing if anything is.) And probably not coincidentally, the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s widely-loved and loathed novel “Atlas Shrugged” opens at theatres nationwide. So what could be more appropriate and entertainingly polarising than a discussion of Ayn Rand’s […]

LegalCare: It is Time to Lower Legal Costs and Ensure Affordable, Accessible Legal Coverage for All by Matthew S. Rice, M. D., Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS According to the American Bar Association, thousands of innocent working Americans are wrongfully convicted of crimes every year, in part due to negligent or poorly trained […]

All Medicare providers (e.g. physicians, NPs, PAs, etc.) are eligible to earn a 1 percent incentive on their total Medicare Part B allowed charges by electronically prescribing a total of 25 times from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2011 and having at least 10 percent of their total Medicare Part B charges made up of […]