- August 22, 2016
David Burress
A sociopath is someone with no conscience. At least some of them are born that way, basically lacking a facility the rest of us possess. However being a born sociopath does not automatically make you a bad person. Some born sociopaths learn to live reasonably normal lives, simply because they were successfully trained that way ...
- August 19, 2016
David Burress
Nearly all hate crimes go unpunished in the US. Victimization surveys show around 260,000 hate crimes per year. Under 6000, or 2%, get reported to the FBI. Of those many do not lead to convictions.
Problems include absence of police enforcement, unwillingness to prosecute, and bad laws. Many hate crimes go uncharged because they lead to ...
- August 18, 2016
David Burress
My previous post on health insurance monopolies tied together quite a number of relatively wonky points about Obamacare, single payer, libertarians, antitrust policy, Aetna malfeasance, and positions taken by President Obama and a few recent presidential candidates.
You actually need to understand all those things and more to have a good handle on health insurance politics and ...
- August 18, 2016
David Burress
Aetna health insurance is using its monopoly power in a brazen attempt to leverage an even higher level of monopoly. In particular, they threatened Obama they’d pull out of most of Obamacare (leaving a big hole, since they are powerful oligopolists) unless the Administration allowed them to merge with Humana. But Obama didn’t, and so ...
