How health insurance may have made health care more expensive
Our overpriced ACA policy for 2023 has a deductible of $17,600. I kid you not. The average deductible for an individual in 2022 is around $1,760, which is double what…
Transportation: Oregon plans per mile vehicle usage fee, and to track all vehicles
Except I can and do turn off my cell phone: Another concern of Oregonians, according to Rep. Lively, is privacy. Many people worry about the state having the ability to…
Autos: New Law mandates “kill switch” on all new vehicles sold in 2027
Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars for all new vehicles sold beginning in 2027. Requires that vehicles automatically determine if a driver is impaired and refuse to…
US government attempted to control online speech about Covid topics
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
Demographics: Less demand for college degrees
‘Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper,’ Utah governor stated Source: Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant…
Public health: The purpose of public health policies was to enlarge authoritarian governments
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…
Public health: CDC says unintended consequence of lockdowns led to increase in Strep A, flu and RSV
CDC now thinks lockdowns and ineffective NPIs are the cause of today’s rise in Step A, flu and RSV cases (which started early this season but appear to have peaked…
Demographics, International: Indians taking on many leadership roles in U.S. businesses
India has 5 times more people in the critical 20-29 age bracket. Stated another way, the top 20% of the young Indian cohort is the same size as that entire…
Demographics: What Languages Do We Speak in the United States?
The number of people who spoke a language other than English at home nearly tripled from 1980 to 2019, but the number who spoke only English also increased. Source: What…
Demographics: Fertility rate decline and impact on state budgets
Process efficiency improvements and automation are essential to addressing this, but will states embrace real solutions? When the economy takes a downward turn, couples often temporarily put off having children.1…