On Trump and the WSJ it is important to distinguish between the news side of the WSJ and the opinion side of the WSJ. The news side is not very different ideologically from the news side of the NYT. The opinion side of the WSJ is very different from the opinion side of the NYT.
The opinion side of the WSJ has been very understanding of Trump, though in a more nuanced way than Trump may like. I cite the following examples from my own op-eds, mirrored to be open access:
"“What does The Wall Street Journal know?” Donald Trump sneered on Tuesday at the Economic Club of Chicago. “They’ve been wrong about everything.”
Two days later, the former president is at the Journal’s New York offices for a meeting with its editorial board. “Well,” he starts, “I’ve had some great support, have great respect for the board, for everybody having to do with The Wall Street Journal. Read it all the time. Don’t get treated well by the editorial board. But I will say on the weaponization of justice, I have been treated very well, and I appreciate it.”"
Israel has a healthcare system similar to what Ira Stoll envisions for the USA. There are 4 health organizations "Kupat Holim" that combine insurance and care, and Israelis choose which one to join. The choices are made by individuals, which builds in greater flexibility than exists in the American system, where the choices are often made by employers.
The Israeli system works pretty well, but of course not perfectly. One problem was described to me by a Health Ministry official during a meeting a few weeks ago at the ministry in Jerusalem: there are difficulties with interoperability between different electronic health information systems of each system and the hospitals, which often serve patients from all 4 organizations. But that seems solvable.
There is an older model that might work better for health insurance than what we have now. Today, health insurance combines prepaid ordinary care with what used to be called "major medical insurance". We should go back to having just major medical, combined with clear posted prices for regular care, health savings accounts to enable the use of pretax dollars, and subsidies for the very poor. That would get the insurers out of most decisions. By its nature, the need for major medical insurance is an infrequent occurence - reducing the ocassions for friction. Like with automobiles, some major medical could be required, so that the pooling of risk would work. The role of insurers in negotiating prices would be constrained to these very costly events, and the market would take care of price competition for ordinary care. And individuals would decide when and where to get ordinary care.
My take on reading Sulzberger and geshrei in the same sentence: Ira Stoll is tanned, rested, and ready.
On Trump and the WSJ it is important to distinguish between the news side of the WSJ and the opinion side of the WSJ. The news side is not very different ideologically from the news side of the NYT. The opinion side of the WSJ is very different from the opinion side of the NYT.
The opinion side of the WSJ has been very understanding of Trump, though in a more nuanced way than Trump may like. I cite the following examples from my own op-eds, mirrored to be open access:
⦿ Comparing Trump to King David: https://segal.org/david/
⦿ Defending Trump's vaccine observations: https://segal.org/vaccine/measles/
⦿ Debunking the "Fine people hoax": https://segal.org/gaza/woke/
Also, James Taranto commented on the relationship between Trump and the WSJ in a WSJ weekend interview in October: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-the-bully-with-a-heart-of-gold-2024-presidential-election-dd922dd6
"“What does The Wall Street Journal know?” Donald Trump sneered on Tuesday at the Economic Club of Chicago. “They’ve been wrong about everything.”
Two days later, the former president is at the Journal’s New York offices for a meeting with its editorial board. “Well,” he starts, “I’ve had some great support, have great respect for the board, for everybody having to do with The Wall Street Journal. Read it all the time. Don’t get treated well by the editorial board. But I will say on the weaponization of justice, I have been treated very well, and I appreciate it.”"
Israel has a healthcare system similar to what Ira Stoll envisions for the USA. There are 4 health organizations "Kupat Holim" that combine insurance and care, and Israelis choose which one to join. The choices are made by individuals, which builds in greater flexibility than exists in the American system, where the choices are often made by employers.
The Israeli system works pretty well, but of course not perfectly. One problem was described to me by a Health Ministry official during a meeting a few weeks ago at the ministry in Jerusalem: there are difficulties with interoperability between different electronic health information systems of each system and the hospitals, which often serve patients from all 4 organizations. But that seems solvable.
This comment was made by Lynn Segal:
There is an older model that might work better for health insurance than what we have now. Today, health insurance combines prepaid ordinary care with what used to be called "major medical insurance". We should go back to having just major medical, combined with clear posted prices for regular care, health savings accounts to enable the use of pretax dollars, and subsidies for the very poor. That would get the insurers out of most decisions. By its nature, the need for major medical insurance is an infrequent occurence - reducing the ocassions for friction. Like with automobiles, some major medical could be required, so that the pooling of risk would work. The role of insurers in negotiating prices would be constrained to these very costly events, and the market would take care of price competition for ordinary care. And individuals would decide when and where to get ordinary care.
What's a geshrei?