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Do regulations add expense to business?
ecthompsonmd September 29, 2011

The talking heads and everyone on Capital Hill have told us that regulations add cost to business. We now “know” this as fact, but is it? From MJ: We asked experts, and most told us that while there is relatively little scholarship on the issue, the evidence so far is that the overall effect on jobs is minimal. Regulations do destroy some jobs, but they also create others. Mostly, they just shift jobs within the economy. “The effects on jobs are negligible. They’re not job-creating or job-destroying on average,” said Richard Morgenstern, who served in the EPA from the Reagan to

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Standing up for their actions – GOP need to own up to their ending Medicare vote
ecthompsonmd May 11, 2011

If you vote for a plan that really ends Medicare, you should be able to stand up and defend your vote. Republicans have never liked Medicare. From DK: This is unbelievably rich. House Republican freshmen admit that their so-called “MediScare” attacks on Democrats helped them win a big majority in 2010. Democrats had voted for the health care law, which included $500 billion in “cuts” to Medicare—primarily slashing overpayments to private insurers—and Republican challengers never let them forget it.Now, they say, it’s time to let bygones be bygones…. On Tuesday, Kinzinger and 41 of his colleagues sent a letter to President Obama, asking

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Why are hedge fund managers worth more than doctors?
ecthompsonmd July 19, 2010

I found this article while surfing the web. When I think about putting in 12-16-hour days and then I think about these four-day-a-week guys… From Blogginstocks: A few months ago a doctor asked me why hedge fund managers make more money than he and his colleagues. After all, Doctor, when used before a name, is capitalized, while hedge fund manager isn’t. While I’m joking about the capitalization — it does reflect the much greater level of societal acclamation doctors receive from the moment they set their minds on an MD to their obituaries. So why doesn’t societal acclamation translate into money?

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