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...Hillarycare” or “socialized medicine”. And the public pays the price—literally, in the form of escalating health insurance costs. Every year, health insurance costs ratchet up about 15 percent, and over 41 million Americans currently have no coverage at all. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has shown how imperfect information in private health insurance markets forces up premiums, and how mandatory public health insurance programs can overcome this market failure. But any Democrat who dares to propose such a plan would be heckled off the national stage...
...Rangoon telephone book. Every year a new directory is published, but the listing remains "Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw," followed by Rangoon's most famous address "54 University Avenue" and a telephone number. The number never seems to work. When I tried it during my recent trip, the Nobel laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was enduring her third stint under house arrest since 1989. But seeing her celebrated name in the book always seems both extraordinary and reassuring...
Annan, who has been secretary-general since January 1997, won the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to strengthen the role of the U.N. as an international force for peace...
...response to a question about where to draw the line between improvements in human health and designer genes, Sandel brought up the example of a man that tried to create a super-race by soliciting sperm from winners of the Nobel prize before the creation of Viagra...
...wanted to elevate the human race by doing this, but he couldn’t find many Nobel laureates who were willing to contribute or who were able to contribute,” Sandel said...