In the post Show Me Your Budget, I addressed the U.S. federal budget via an illustration that used proportionally sized boxes to reflect spending priorities. What I didn’t cover was how we pay for those boxes, both the overall box…
Show Me Your Budget
In my book, How The World Works, entry 512 is Priorities vs. Budgets. It reads: “As a business management consultant I heard a lot about priorities. In the introductory meeting and group management team interviews, senior executives would drone on endlessly…
Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion
The web site pagetutor.com put up an excellent illustration of what 1 trillion dollars looks like. The original site is here: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html I excerpted the post here to help illustrate how much the United States spends on health care. What does…
Health Care Reform: The Cost Drivers – One Academic’s View
What drives the rapidly escalating increases for the cost of health care in the United States? The following are the views of one PhD on that topic. Key excerpts: 80% of total health care spending linked to chronically ill patients…
Health Care Reform: The Options
. There are a plethora of plans and proposals for the reform of the U.S. health care system being promoted by every imaginable interest group, vested interest and limelight seeking politician. I have gathered a few repsentative samples here to…
Health Care Reform FAQ
A PDF file version of this post is available here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/healthcarereformfaq.pdf =================================================================== Q: Why should I care about health care system reform in the United States? A: Because: The nation can no longer afford the current system, not on…
Thoughts on Health Care Reform
I was recently asked by our friend, Gary DuBois, to join a conversation of Americans, ex-patriots and citizens of other countries about the state of the health care system in the United States and prospects for meaningful reform. Gary asked…
Every 24 Hours
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day. America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day. America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products…
What You Know – True or False
Is what you know true? Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true? Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf .
SubPrime Primer
This is not for kids due to language, but it is a humorous and informative primer on what happened to initiate the global financial meltdown. >> Warning: Adult language and themes << http://www.hackneys.com/docs/SubprimeForDummies.pps (Please note: I did not create the "SubPrime…