Cubans now allowed to buy new cars

Cuba lifts restrictions on people buying foreign-made new and used cars for the first time since the revolution in 1959.



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Mental-Health Boondoggle

The feds spend a stunning $125 billion a year on “mental health” via programs ranging from Medicaid to the Social Security Administration. Yet the Murphy committee discovered that most of this cash goes to vague and ineffective services rarely focused on treating the most serious illnesses — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. The Murphy […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/mental-health-boondoggle/

Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers - Huffington Post

Colorado Ski Resorts Aren't Sure How To Handle Influx Of Stoner Skiers Huffington Post DENVER, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Colorado ski resorts and the state Tourism Office have chosen not to embrace out-of-state visitors who have come to buy legalized cannabis, creating an opportunity for a handful of small firms that are catering to marijuana ...

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Medicaid Expansion Means More ER Visits

A number of years ago, Governor Romney told me that under Massachusetts health reform people would go to physicians’ offices for care instead of going to the emergency room. He wasn’t saying that Massachusetts would deliver more care. He was saying that the care would be more appropriate and less expensive. As it turns out […]



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Latin America's largest economy enters an unpredictable election year - The Economist

Latin America's largest economy enters an unpredictable election year The Economist “IT'S not about the 50 cents” reads a scrawl on a shop shutter on Avenida Faria Lima, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares. Next door, the message is blunter: “Screw the police”. Six months after a small demonstration against a 50-cent rise in bus ...

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Spain steps into Panama Canal row

The Spanish government says it is in talks with Panama and Sacyr, the builder at the heart of a row over a contract to expand the global shipping hub.



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Alternative to ObamaCare

The ideal: Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and providers; lifelong and guaranteed-renewable, meaning you have the right to continue with no unexpected increase in premiums if you get sick. Insurance should protect wealth against large, unforeseen, necessary expenses, rather than be a wildly inefficient payment plan for routine expenses. Getting there: […]



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