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But the frustration of doctors is more than a matter of money. The real blow to the profession has been the assault on autonomy. Physicians spend endless days and long years acquiring an extraordinarily specialized skill and then find themselves being told by some 23-year-old HMO administrator a...
The study did not find any negative effects associated with alcohol consumption, although Rimm noted that, because the pool of research subjects was drawn exclusively from the health profession, it did not include a significant number of heavy drinkers.
The same could be said of many of Cheney's ideological opponents today. He tends to disarm them by genially listening to what they have to say, even though they almost never change his opinion. "He doesn't have a mean streak," says Lee Hamilton, the Democrat who chaired the...
Unfortunately, it is doubtful that governments could accurately measure the magnitude of the tax necessary for smokers to exactly internalize the excess social cost of their habit. The debate within the economics profession on smoking’s health externality is far from settled. Besides, even if governments could accurately...
Opponents of the new law continue to charge that it abridges the free speech rights of wealthy American citizens, well-financed lobbying groups and other purveyors of soft money. But if money becomes equated with raw political expression, then wealthy individuals, by virtue of birth or choice of profession, get...