A Doctor’s Concern for Private Practice
by Chad Davis, M.D. Indiana’s private practitioners, family doctors among them, need your help — a Code Red, if you will. Specifically, they need you to understand the economic pressures that change how your medical care is provided — and not just those changes associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known Read the full article…
College Football and the Role of Government
by Jon Bingham Which system do you prefer: college basketball’s March Madness or college football’s bowls-playoff? Your answer may indicate your view of the beneficial role of government. Should the government facilitate competition or predetermine much of the outcome? March Madness relates to the free market; college football exemplifies government control. For years, college football Read the full article…
Bohanon on Prejudice: ‘Nor Can I Have Any Other Way’
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. In the summer of 1967, when I was about to enter the seventh grade, I watched television news reports of the Detroit riots on my grandmother’s black-and-white Philco. An elderly black woman cried on camera because she had been burned out of her apartment. My grandmother thought it was all “very Read the full article…
Republicans: ‘That’s Not How It Works . . .’
(For the use of the membership only.) “Like the mandarins of old, these officials are well-educated, well-mannered, well-intentioned and wrong.” — Dan Hannan in the Dec. 8, 2014, Washington Examiner by Craig Ladwig Republican officeholders are one thing. Republican voters are another. That was made clear this week as the U.S. House voted to fund Read the full article…
Big Hospitals, Big Bills, a Better Idea
“What does ‘free’ healthcare mean? . . . It isn’t free treatment, it’s depersonalized treatment.” — Dr. Oreshchenkov in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1967 novel “Cancer Ward.” By Craig Ladwig An idea planted here six years ago could make the difference in Indiana healthcare. It begins by asking Indiana hospitals to give patients a firm price in Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (39): Caleb Mills Helped Build Indiana School System
by Andrea Neal Indiana’s 1816 Constitution called for a statewide system of free public schools, but it didn’t happen until the 1850s — after education reformers demanded it. The chief lobbyist for taxpayer-funded schools was Caleb Mills, who used the power of the pen to persuade lawmakers that illiteracy was a threat to Indiana’s future. Read the full article…
