Monthly Archives: February 2010

What's Wrong with Canada

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When people express their fears about health care reform in this country, Canada is often spoken of as the example the kinds of system we want to avoid.  It’s nowhere near perfect.  For example, wait times to see a doctor are slightly longer in Canada than here, but they are shorter than they are in a lot of other countries with universal care.  More importantly, the overall picture is better.

Basic Statistics

U.S. Canada
Life Expectancy (Male) 74.8 77.4
Life Expectancy (Female) 80.1 82.4
Infant Mortality/1000 live births 6.8 5.3
Obesity Rate (Male) 31.1 17.0
Obesity Rate (Female) 32.2 19.0
HC spending as % of GDP (2005) 16.0% 10.4%

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We can readily see that the U.S. has worse life expectancy, infant mortality rates, and obesity rates that Canada, yet pays more for for these relatively poorer outcomes. Canada is clearly better…right?
–via Healthcare Economists

I don’t know, Canada doesn’t sound that bad to me.

The Colbert Report and Air America

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Air America is off the air, and visitors the website are greeting with text explaining the companies bankruptcy.

It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

In memory of a network I never actually listened to, The Indecision Forever blog has posted some of The Colbert Report’s best Air America moments. Here’s the first clip, but the best are at this link.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Tip/Wag – Midterm Elections Edition
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My Career in International Education, v 4.0

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Globes in Chicago, by John LeGear

In 2005 the Association of American Colleges and Universities launched the “Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility” initiative. The mission statement for that initiative describes what should be one of the most important principles guiding higher education today. Shared Futures

is based upon the assumption that we live in an interdependent but unequal world and that higher education can help prepare students not only to thrive in such a world, but to remedy its inequities.

Higher education not only can prepare students to do those things, but it must, for their benefit, for the good of our nation, and because remedying inequalities is the right thing to do. Hence, as the statement continues, the academy

has a vital role of expanding knowledge about the world’s peoples and problems and developing individuals who will advance equity and justice both at home and abroad.

These are fine and noble ideals, but they are also solidly rooted in reality. The United States finds itself involved in two wars at the moment, and neither is with a neighbor or even a nation in this hemisphere. The largest share of our foreign debt is owned by China. America is a nation addicted to television, yet only Zenith makes television sets in the US, maintaining one factory so that it is able to claim it is an American producer. Problems like global warming can only be tackled on an international scale, and when the mortgage crisis hit the banks in the United States, many of the world’s banks also felt the impact. The engine of globalization is, of course, technology, which makes it almost as easy to conduct business between Boston and Hong Kong (8,000 miles) as it is between Boston and Cambridge (next to one another).
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Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Finance and the Judiciary

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Since her retirement from the Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor has been campaigning against the popular election of judges. I agree with her. Envisioned by the founding fathers as interpreters of the law, they should be among the bet legal mind available for a given position and they should rule based on the law and only the law, no matter how popular or unpopular their rulings may be. This is the only way laws get changed. If judges have to run for public office they will be tempted to rule with that in mind.
Now, however, there is a new danger to the impartiality of judges. O’Connor has expressed concern over the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on the impartiality of judges, and again I share her concern.

“In invalidating some of the existing checks on campaign spending, the majority in Citizens United has signaled that the problem of campaign contributions in judicial elections might get considerably worse and quite soon,” O’Connor said at a symposium at Georgetown Law Center. She noted that each election cycle brings new spending records, especially in state supreme court races that have become special-interest battlegrounds.
–via the Washington Post

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