The United States spends more on healthcare per person, by far, than any other developed country. The compromise that is Obamacare (the curious and discredited idea that private profit guarantees good care) means that millions will still being paying over the odds, and millions will still be without adequate healthcare, dying unnecessarily. The rest of …

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So Asiatics outperform the rest of the world? “There is a body of scholarship showing that the collapse of the fertility rate to dangerously low levels across east Asia is the direct consequence of school cramming and “education fever”. “Education fever causes Korean parents to scrape and save to send their children to private Hagwon …

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