Headline in the New Zealand Herald: Rare health condition: Government to pay for Melody Klein Ovink’s life-saving US surgery This story strikes home for me because this woman is going through the same thing my Uncle Charles went through 70 years ago. Like this girl, my uncle had a condition New Zealand’s universal healthcare system […]
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What cut-throat free market?
The free market is often characterized by some as a Darwinian or Hunger Games-style survival of the fittest competition. But that’s seldom true. Take the Wall Street Journal headline this week: Sanofi to Help Make Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine for U.S. As the story explains, Sanofi has signed up to make as many as 200 million […]