Mailbag: Screenings Useful in Cancer Fight
Again, we were asking if such screening saved insurance companies money, and the answer is, “No.”
Again, we were asking if such screening saved insurance companies money, and the answer is, “No.”
“Shouldn’t patients and their families have some skin in the game as a brake on the profligate spending of other people’s money for health care?”
Next time you receive an unintelligible medical bill, remember how hard it is for your doctor to get paid.
Asians in New Jersey have the best life expectancy of any racial or ethnic group.
David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show discussing the economics of third party payer systems.
Now there is absolutely no charge for a costly set of test and procedures on the all-you-can-spend preventive care buffet.
After the birth of my (David’s) first child, my wife and I noticed we were being billed for a very expensive bedpan and box of tissues that we had never used.
Anytime a third-party-payer system exists market forces will not hold down costs as much as they would otherwise.
Why shouldn’t we just institute price controls in America?
It is difficult to reason with people who lie and mislead in their statistics because they believe that they have the moral high ground.
These quotes are provocative for what they say about us as Americans.
A typical college degree is worth up to a million bucks over a career, but that’s not true for every degree.
ObamaCare Is the Worst Legislation in 75 Years.
Unlike the markets, members of the Fed are able to make decisions that are in exactly the wrong direction if they don’t limit themselves with a rules-based system.
Because of inflation, today’s 20-year-olds will need over $7 million to have the same lifestyle when they retire.
With as little as $25 you can begin loaning money to developing world entrepreneurs.
Quantitative easing is a sneaky way to make everyone dealing in U.S. dollars pay off the U.S. debt.
The economics of the job market are complicated, and an executive order can’t grant America a higher wage.
David Marotta was interviewed on radio KABC in Lost Angeles, discussing the article Should We Wallow in the Rising Stock Market. Listen to the radio show here.
Economic freedom enriches society, lifts the poor out of poverty and respects the agency and dignity of human choice.
The stock market can occasionally benefit from the misery index.
Recently we had one of our blogs posts go viral and capture the attention of the national news.
You can often tell exactly what a piece of legislation will NOT do by what they title it.
At least there will be less rich people to hate.
I expect we have seen the bottom of both the housing market and 30-year fixed interest rates.
This WHO 2000 Statistical Report was the study used to justify and promote the Affordable Care Act. Here are seven facts about this so-called research lurking behind politicians’ claims that our health care system is in crisis
After I have studied their technical reports and data for over a month and a half, I have finally been able to track their formulas and findings across the dozen sub-studies and their corresponding literature. The methods and statistical formulas used are at times surprising, alarming, or comical.
Just how much value does a smart advisor bring with asset allocation and rebalancing wisdom?
Let’s spend $1.25 *billion* to enlist acceptance of Obamacare by young people.
Requiring employers to deliver government propaganda is genius.
Three part time employees equals two full time employees while avoiding $4,000 in annual fines.
The Affordable Care Act encourages everyone to get health care insurance by punishing those who don’t. Proponents of Obamacare justify this saying that health care is a human right. But is it?
Behavioral psychology is uncovering many common mental lapses and offers new ideas for improving decision making in light of these heuristics.
Many Americans do not fully understand the causes of the Civil War.
Economic growth is so easy….
It’s hard to believe they would both protest a tariff-created monopoly at the Boston Tea Party and then create one at the first congress.
Web-based MBA programs have become increasingly popular among working professionals, who are balancing work, school and other life obligations.
The S&P 500 has nearly doubled in the last four years. Yet many investors are left feeling more disillusioned with their investments than ever before. Some of this discontent can be combated by understanding the psychological effects of market volatility.
Money plays such a personal role in our lives that most people learn early on to keep their financial affairs a secret. These shadows promote many different varieties of financial pathologies and distress.
The coercive power of government is more dangerous than the free market. Special interests use it to circumvent both the law and economics.
All I want is a simple cup of coffee near where I work. Is that asking too much of free trade?
The only two ways to balance the federal budget are to spend less or to collect more. Spending less is the preferred method, but that is just not happening. As a result, politics is pushing many in Congress to try to balance the budget by raising taxes.
“Until the deficit is eliminated from our budget, … there is no end to inflation; there is finally no end to taxation; and the eventual result would, of course, be catastrophe.”
This kitten knows money doesn’t grow on trees. Be more like this kitten.
To understand this newest dimension to DFA’s investment strategy, you need to begin with an understanding of the three-factor model described by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French.
This kitten always gets his 401(K) match. Be more like this kitten.
The maximum income for a couple is not double what it is for a single person. Your spouse’s income can disqualify you from credits you could have received if you had not been legally married.
To fulfill the financial resolutions of spending less, living within our means, and paying off our debt, the country first needs to encourage production rather than discourage it.
One of the strange and unintended consequences of targeting the rich with more taxes will be a greater gap between the rich and the poor as employees will shoulder their fair share no matter what.
With the enormous increase in the taxation of dividends, high net worth investors may be tempted to abandon dividend-paying stocks entirely. This is not necessary.