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Can you afford healthcare?

In their paper “The Big Idea: Prizes to Stimulate R&D for New Medicines,” Love & Hubbard discuss the current system of financing R&D for new medicines.  They say that this system: “is deeply flawed by the impact of high prices on access to medicine, the wasteful spending on marketing and R&D for medically unimportant products, [...]

2010 02 24 Uncategorized Comments Off

Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Spending Limits

This past weekend, the Supreme Court ruled to reject corporate spending limits on campaign contributions. For the past several months, I’ve been watching the news about the forming healthcare bill, and for months my frustration with our current campaign structure has been growing. It seems so obvious that partisan politics are only fueled by campaign [...]

2010 01 26 Uncategorized Comments (1)