Healthcare innovation stifled, social division still bad policy, meet Badger’s latest hire Viewpoint What to do about progressive icon and eugenicist Charles Van Hise By Mike Nichols For years, I’ve wondered when and how the University of Wisconsin-Madison would deal with the odious history of its one-time president, the progressive icon with a building named after him on the campus, Charles Van Hise. Van Hise was a eugenicist who wanted to rid the “race” of “defectives” so that future humans could have a “godlike destiny.” “Human defectives should no longer be allowed to propagate the race,” he wrote in an essay, “The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States,” published in 1910. “We should reach at least as high a plane with reference to human beings as with the defective animals.” Years after Van Hise’s views were widely publicized, some at UW-Madison are apparently pondering whether to put up a plaque acknowledging the truth. Continue Reading Related Reading: Racist Roots of UW Progressives By Thomas Leonard The original progressives were deeply ambivalent about the poor. This is, I think, the great contradiction at the heart of Progressive Era reform. Progressives felt genuine compassion for “the people,” which is to say, those groups they judged worthy of American citizenship and employment. The deserving poor were offered the helping hand of state uplift. Yet progressives simultaneously scorned the millions of ordinary people who happened to be disabled, or of an “inferior” race, or female. The so-called undeserving poor were offered the closed hand of state exclusion and restraint. Read the Story Analysis Innovators stifled by current healthcare system By Daniel Sem The one thing that can save healthcare — innovation — is stymied by the anti-market forces of the current system. And it shows. Healthcare costs continue to rise, relentlessly outpacing inflation. While overall inflation from 2000 to 2020 increased prices by 54%, the prices of hospital services increased 200% and those of medical care services 120%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average consumer pays over $12,000 per year for healthcare, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Sometimes you pay it indirectly, through insurance premiums paid by you and your employer, or by tax dollars. But make no mistake: You are paying for it. Read More Related Research: “Legislation to protect DPC is essential to achieving more affordable and accessible healthcare in Wisconsin. It merely needs to state that DPC is not insurance. This should be a priority.” Read the Report Related Podcasts: Common-sense Healthcare Reforms for Wisconsin America is a leader in healthcare quality, though its healthcare delivery leaves much to be desired. Insurance costs are increasing, transparency is lacking and third parties control too much of the decision making.   Play Part 1 Play Part 2 In the News Students of color events further division. Separating people by race is bad policy. “Keeping us separate keeps us from being able to know and understand one another. It is that lack of knowledge that creates fear. That fear creates resentment, and we become hostile toward those we resent because we do not really know them. Addition by division – especially as social policy – will not achieve the desired result.” Shannon Whitworth Read the Op-Ed Related Reading: UW-Milwaukee Graduation Numbers for Black Students Plummet Even Further “DEI works against students by actively encouraging the students to separate themselves from the rest of the student body, with segregated activities, curriculum and housing. This imposed isolation denies Black students the opportunity to advance their academic and social education cooperatively, just like any other students on campus.” Read More from Whitworth Badger Events Less than two weeks away! Join us Thursday, October 12 for the Badger Institute Annual Dinner. Rep. Mike Gallagher will deliver keynote remarks on democracy, freedom and the threat of the Chinese Communist Party. Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts | Brookfield, WI 5:00 p.m. VIP cocktail reception with buffet-style dinner 5:30 p.m. general admission cocktail reception with buffet-style dinner 6:30 p.m. presentation and keynote remarks Sponsorship opportunities are available, along with general registration and VIP meet-and-greet tickets. RSVP Today New to Badger Meet Will Rosignal, Digital Outreach Associate Join us in welcoming Will Rosignal to the Badger Institute! In this newly created position, Will will help the Institute grow our reach across the state and influence thousands and thousands more Wisconsinites. Will is a May 2023 graduate of Marquette University with a bachelor’s in advertising and minor in psychology. He is a water ski fanatic and was the president of the MU water ski team. A Wheaton, IL native, he fell in love with Milwaukee during his time at Marquette and is excited to get back to Brew City. He can be reached at [email protected]. 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