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US healthcare system comes to aid of another Kiwi

May 2, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: healthcare, new zealand, united states

What cut-throat free market?

May 2, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: COVID-19, free market

When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets

April 29, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 25, 2021> It’s one thing for business leaders to sit out policy debates, but it’s quite another for them to argue for policies that will harm long-term shareholder interests. Yet that’s what we’re witnessing today with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos supporting raising the […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Douglas Myers, jeff bezos, new zealand, Roger Kerr, sir ron trotter

New Zealand had no choice but to lock down

April 4, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 2, 2021> “New Zealand hospitals in crisis.” A surprising headline for many. Why are patients being treated in hospital corridors in a country that has essentially eliminated COVID-19? Unfortunately, it’s a familiar story for many Kiwis and those who have studied universal healthcare. New Zealand […]

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Roger Kerr RIP

March 9, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

(Published in the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary on 8 November 2011) By Mary Kissel The Reagan revolution wasn’t an isolated movement, but one that was echoed from the shores of Britain to as far away as the Antipodes. One of the great stalwarts of that free-market agenda, Roger Kerr, passed away last month in […]

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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