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Slashing Red Tape Can Ease The Doctor Shortage
Forbes | Sally C. Pipes
April 13, 2020
The U.S. doctor shortage preceded COVID-19. But the crisis has exposed its severity. If current trends continue, the United States will be short up to 122,000 physicians by 2032, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. That projected shortfall includes up to 55,000 primary care doctors.
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Lance Izumi – Online Learning and Homeschooling During the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 13, 2020
Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, joins us to discuss a situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that millions of parents never though they’d find themselves in – homeschooling their kids. He shares advice from experts to parents on homeschooling, shares online education and homeschooling resources, discusses state and federal efforts to make it easier for parents and students to access online education, and spotlights how teacher unions and opponents of charter schools are not allowing the crisis to go to waste to further their policy agenda.
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First Legislative Budget Hearing on Coronavirus Promises Tough Questions
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
April 16, 2020
Last weekend, Vice News reported that the company that California has contracted with, BYD, “has been prohibited by law from bidding for some federal contracts in the United States . . . (and) has glaring red flags on its record, experts warn, including a history of supplying allegedly faulty products to the U.S., ties to the Chinese military and Communist party, and possible links to forced labor.”
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Chaos by the Bay
City Journal | Christopher Rufo
April 15, 2020
Over just a few weeks, San Francisco has instituted a policy that can be described as “decarcerate, decriminalize, and depolice.” Reducing the jail population, permitting public camping and other forms of disorder, and scaling back police presence in low-income neighborhoods have always been the favored policies of San Francisco’s progressive activists.
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It’s Past Time to Defund the World Health Organization
The Bridge | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
April 16, 2020
Such condemnations are wrong-headed. Although having a global public health body is in line with US interests, the WHO, which has been largely underwritten by the US government, has repeatedly failed us. The current pandemic must be a final wake-up call that something needs to change.
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Coronavirus and the Political Divide
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
April 14, 2020
But I believe there’s another reason – one rooted in deep-seated philosophical differences on governance, freedom, and personal responsibility. Conservatives and libertarians have a natural distrust of government and government power. They place great value on their freedoms and individual responsibility.
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The Chinese Version of a Coronavirus Economic Stimulus Plan
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
April 13, 2020
State-owned enterprises, or SOEs, were activated by the Chinese government in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. President Xi Jinping ordered SOEs to step up “unconditionally, and at any cost.” A Wall Street Journal article detailed how China State Construction Engineering Corp. propped up 20,000 construction workers to build two hospitals in ten days totaling 2,600 beds in the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China.
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