Microsoft exec formerly in charge of Microsoft Office to oversee healthcare.gov website. Funny how they picked an executive from a company known for not embracing the internet and from a division that doesn't involve the internet. Cronyism is it's own motivation.
How government regulations made health care so expensive.
"Since the early 1900s, medical special interests have been lobbying politicians to reduce competition. By the 1980s, the U.S. was restricting the supply of physicians, hospitals, insurance and pharmaceuticals, while subsidizing demand. Since then, the U.S. has been trying to control high costs by moving toward something perhaps best described by the House Budget Committee: “In too many areas of the economy – especially energy, housing, finance, and health care – free enterprise has given way to government control in “partnership” with a few large or politically well-connected companies” (Ryan 2012)."True.
China spreads antibiotic resistance through waste water treatment plants. To solve this problem, start by razing the old hospitals that breed these bugs.
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