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...Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 noted in The Wall Street Journal in 2004, the savings in the premium may even exceed the increase in deductible, reducing overall costs! In addition, this proposal reduces medical inefficiency because patients will be paying for a larger fraction of their regular care through their personal HSA. Therefore, patients will be less likely to overuse the system and will go to the doctor only when their need approaches the cost of the service. Moreover, HSAs are tied to individuals, not corporations. Consequently, shifting jobs won’t affect...
Weber’s website alleges that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust is just a fraction of the widely accepted 6 million death toll. It also features the work of Holocaust deniers David Irving and Ernst Zundel. Interviews with Weber are posted on the National Vanguard website, and the Toronto Star reported in 1988 that he was a former news editor of the Vanguard’s periodical...
...thing, although Harvard University has a huge endowment, Harvard College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) do not. FAS is currently in a budget deficit of around $40 million, and its endowment was only $10 billion (at the time the overall endowment was $22 billion), a fraction of Harvard’s nearly $26 billion total. In fact, Harvard ranks behind peer institutions like Princeton and Yale in terms of arts and sciences endowment per student. And in fiscal year 2004, just 13 percent of the College’s endowment was unrestricted in use. Harvard cannot legally...
...Senate is considering a bill to grant 400,000 work visas annually for low-skilled immigrants in addition to the 140,000 visas currently available to foreign workers (including highly skilled ones). That's like adding a city the size of Atlanta each year. But it's a small fraction of the U.S. workforce of 139 million. "No credible estimate exists that [shows] immigrants cause unemployment," says James Smith, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. On the other hand, immigrants at least cause displacement by taking low-paying jobs from some Americans...
...front of 40,000 people a night? How do I get my hands on the MLB league minimum of $327,000 or, even better, reach the league average salary of $2.5 million per season? How can I get my mug on a Topps baseball card? These represent just a fraction of the perks that athletes who reach the pinnacle of the baseball world receive each year...