Finite Model Theory

Medicare changes will see '400,000 quit private health' (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

12 May 2008

The private health industry has warned that changes to the Medicare surcharge threshold will see an estimated 400,000 people quit the private health system.

The global slump of 2008-09 has begun as poison spreads (Daily Telegraph)

12 May 2008

The avalanche of bankruptcies has begun. Six US companies of substance have defaulted on bonds over the past fortnight, against 17 for the whole of last year.

Is Labour abolishing illness? (The New Statesman)

1 May 2008

Incapacity benefit has become one of this year's favourite scare stories. Hardly a day passes without a new headline deploring its soaring costs and the rising numbers of claimants who get "something for nothing", at the expense of decent, hardworking taxpayers.