August 2005 Archives

Malcolm Gladwell has written an interesting article in the New Yorker about the Bush Administration's innovation to improve health care in America, known as Health Savings Accounts.

Here's a brief excerpt:

A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect of its economy — a country that switched to Japanese cars the moment they were more reliable, and to Chinese T-shirts the moment they were five cents cheaper — has loyally stuck with a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers.

You can read the rest at The Moral-Hazard Myth.

In recent weeks I've been captivated by Google Earth.

If you don't know it, the BBC television programme Click Online has a good description of this spectacular mapping software at Portal race goes local and global.