Examples are endless: The fact is that medicine is a complex team sport. Financial, managerial, legal, and operational decisions impact patient outcomes at least as much as strictly medical decisions.
Nancy Marsden | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
There's nothing philosophical about it. When a press release from 23 watchdog groups falls in the media "forest" and nobody hears it, as far as the pu...
Cristina Page | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Women have had to run a gauntlet to get reproductive health care in recent years. If left to the Secretary of HHS, that gauntlet may be the healthcare passage for everyone.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.04.2008 | Business
As the credit crunch plays out, one central theme is becoming very obvious: deregulation has gone way too far.
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The final day of July 2008 may go down in history as the moment the tides of democracy shifted away from corporate cronyism and back to the people.
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
The FDA is not so much a watchdog agency as an active member of the psychopharmaceutical complex working on behalf on the drug industry.
Wall Street Journal | Bob Davis, Damian Paletta and Rebecca Smith | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The housing and financial crisis convulsing the U.S. is powering a new wave of government regulation of business and the economy. Feder...
Bernard I. Finel | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
I just returned from the Netroots convention, and needless to say, there is a lot of anger out there about the FISA "compromise." But I'll be blunt -- I find this anger misplaced and frankly naive.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
Phil Gramm designed the 1999 takedown of the Glass-Steagall Pillar. It's just too bad, if you support Obama, to see such a juicy target removed.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
Robert Reich: "Capitalism has always required regulation in order to ensure against fraud and excessive speculation. Greenspan allowed the economic crisis to happen because he believed that capitalism was self-correcting."
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
McCain and Gramm are financial radicals who have taken over the system. The idea of putting them back in charge is absolutely unthinkable.
Emily Erikson | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
The net result of a progressive tax structure in the US has been increased social mobility, which is a more important and durable part of American culture than, for example, owning driving long distances in SUVs.
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Leading economically conservative organizations who argued the proposed gambling regulations would interfere with the functioning of our financial system had the support of less than 10% of Republican congressmen.
Lucas Conley | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
We don't need more disclosure -- we need less advertising. Five placements a minute? We're already living in branded world, inundated by 3,000-5,000 ad messages a day. Enough!
David Goldstein | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
If the airlines are so willing to cut corners above deck, where the paying customers can see it, I'm damn frightened to learn what they're cutting behind the scenes.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
The California Chamber of Commerce has released its annual list of what it calls "job-killer bills." Why is it that the hit-list seems to only target Democrats?
Robert Davey | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Whether the FAA has the nerve to impose a new expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars per aircraft remains to be seen. Whether the rule is necessary is another question.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
Alan Greenspan took to the pages of The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal to defend his legacy this week. He didn't salvage it.
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
Our regulatory systems and enforcement can always be improved. But let's be honest about what's really going on here.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Between toys that might kill our children, a food safety system that isn't working, airlines that might be flying unsafe airplanes, and our entire financial system, it's clear something isn't working.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Taxpayers are the victims of an elite group of corrupt carpetbaggers, politicians and executives, who prey on their good nature and willingness to invest in their community.
Dan Solin | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
I have nothing against those who want to speculate with their assets. However when speculators regale us with reports of outsized returns, it is important to challenge them for several reasons.
Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
Good regulation is about transparency and a level playing field. It is about recognition that over-speculation is a persistent habit of markets and should be restrained but with ample room for market price setting.
Harry Fuller | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
I is clear that deregulation has exceeded the "too much of a burden on business" argument. Instead, too little regulation has broken the economy.
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