SOBer Thoughts (093007)
Boring Made Dull made a good supplemental point last week about the measurement of “corruption”:
It would be interesting to see some additional detail behind these types of reports, just to see what does or does not constitute corruption. After all, I would expect that what one might term “official legislative” corruption, such as Congressional earmarks for bridges to nowhere should count, but they probably don’t.
My guess is that he’s right.
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Ben Keeler and TaxmanBlog wrote up John Edwards’ decision to accept public financing.
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Porkopolis puts some perspective on SCHIP, courtesy of David Brooks, who appears to be one of the few remaining sane guys at the New York Times. Proponents are (shock!) exaggerating the scope of the “problem.”
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Ohio Conservative points to an I-hope-he’s-right post by Jack Wheeler (”Silence in Syria, Panic in Iran”).
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Last week, Nasty, Brutish & Short noted the U.S. Episcopal Church has, in essence, officially and philosophically split with the rest of the world’s Episcopalians.
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Eye Hacker is impressed with Wal-Mart and its generic prescription program.
It seems to be a pretty good idea to always check at WallyWorld (or Target, K-Mart, Meijer, or other similar store of that’s your preference) to see if you can get your prescription filled for less than your health plan’s co-pay. Really now, isn’t that amazing?
This move by Wal-Mart and other retailers who have matched or closely matched what it’s doing (ah, competition!) doesn’t get nearly enough recognition. I would suppose that’s because it gets in the way of arguing that greedy providers, insurers, and drug companies would rather let us suffer or die rather than provide us medications.
Oh wait — somebody’s doing that already, but it’s not any of those guys.
