March 2012
3 posts
On Markets in Healthcare
“A pure free market model simply cannot work in providing health care unless we’re willing to let people who can’t pay die.”
— Fareed Zakaria
Kony 2012: At best ineffective, at worst...
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about KONY 2012, a viral video posted online just five days ago, already boasting over 70 million views. The video, created by the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, stars its founder Jason Russell. It urges people to “Stop Kony” aka leader of the Lords’ Resistance Army, famous for their use of child soldiers in Northern Uganda, and already indicted by the...
Health is a Human Right
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
- Universal Declaration...
