Rdan Not only is ER care enormously expensive for ‘more routine’ health concerns than a clinic, but perhaps are not equal for insure/uninsured even for traffic accidents, not withstanding our best wishes. Sphere notes a report from the Archives of Surgery: It’s federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal […]

Rdan I will be switching the template this week. The key is function this week…Let me know if everything works from comments to links. Next week come refinements.

by cactus The weather was beautiful on the day I was almost murdered. Since it happened (or almost happened) in Brazil, it might not seem surprising that the weather was nice, but this was São Paulo where the only certainty is pollution. Beautiful days in São Paulo are worth noting, even when you barely make […]

Rdan After having received e-mails regarding Mark Thoma’s post on types of unemployment about who was included and excluded from the per centages, I thought a note on the relevance of the employment to population ratio to be worth repeating from comments on that post. Lifted from comments by run 75441 regarding “unemployment”here: …[D]id everyone […]

Rdan For the sake of argument, jobs in our future over the next few years or so appear to be in the health care industry and education. Jobs needing less education than a BA are among the fastest growing. Where are tomorrow’s jobs going to come from? The question is more urgent than ever, with […]

CBS Moneywatch now features Mark Thoma about 10 posts a month. Apropos Angry Bear exploration of “structural unemployment”, Mark writes on the topic of unemployment: The types of unemployment Economists define three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment is defined as the unemployment that occurs because of people moving or changing occupations. […]

by Linda Beale (cross posted with ataxingmatter) Tax Prof and its commenters More on the Estate Tax–the Heritage Foundation speaks gobbledygookhat tip to Tax Prof and its commenters The Heritage Foundation, I’m afraid I’ve concluded, is not a “think tank” at all–it’s a propaganda tank. And the propaganda it spews tends to be in support […]

Rdan Martin Ford continues his theme in the following post, on comparative advantage: More on the Looming Structural Unemployment Crisis, and on Comparative Advantage In my previous post, I suggested that job automation technology might someday advance to the point where most routine or repetitive jobs will be performed by machines or software, and that, […]