US Healthcare System Good, Needs Less Govt

As usual, John Stossel produces a lucid critique of a popular belief, in this case Michael Moore's diagnosis of the US medical system as "Sicko", and his prescription of improving it via more government regulations.

Anti-Black, Pro-White Bias On Death Row

Blacks who murder whites have a much higher chance of getting death row than whites who murder blacks, according to a study discussed in this article. But what are the data? The article is available only for a fee, and the data themselves I can find now where.

Do we have 1,000 whites murdering blacks, compared to 50 blacks murdering whites? Or are these groups similar in size?

Do both groups have have similar types of situations? Or do the white murderers tend to be premeditated, and the black murderers tend to be heat-of-the-moment?

I do not doubt that the US is unwashed of anti-black bias, but without more info, we cannot know to what extent this study's reported results accurately reflect the bias on death row.

New Zealand Ends Subsidies; Farmers Flourish

Lefties in New Zealand axed the silly farm subsidies there. Read how amazed the farmers are by how much more money they make and more sensibly and proudly operate now that that they earn bucks only for what consumers by. Emboldens my enthusiasm for school vouchers, which amounts to about the same thing.

Innocent White Guy

Here's an expose on an innocent white guy who got wrongly convicted of killing another white guy.

Wait Your Turn! Michael Moore's Healthcare Proposal

Good luck trying to get "free" healthcare in Canada, France, Cuba, and the other nation's hailed by Michael Moore in his "Sicko" documentary. From Walter Williams' essay:
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Do we want the government employees who run the troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be in charge of our entire health care system? Or, would you like the people who deliver our mail to also deliver health care services? How would you like the people who run the motor vehicles department, the government education system, foreign intelligence and other government agencies to also run our health care system? After all, they are not motivated by the quest for profits, and that might mean they're truly wonderful, selfless, caring people.

As for me, I'd choose profit-driven people to provide my health care services, people with motives like those who deliver goods to my supermarket, deliver my overnight mail, produce my computer and software programs, assemble my car and produce a host of other goods and services that I use...

...The Vancouver, British Columbia-based Fraser Institute annually publishes "Waiting Your Turn." Its 2006 edition gives waiting times, by treatments, from a person's referral by a general practitioner to treatment by a specialist. The shortest waiting time was for oncology (4.9 weeks). The longest waiting time was for orthopedic surgery (40.3 weeks), followed by plastic surgery (35.4 weeks) and neurosurgery (31.7 weeks).