Charity begins at home in global health research funding

Commentary: Charity begins at home.

Charity Begins at Harne

lCf. John Woods and Douglas Walton, "Ad Hominem", The Philosophical Forum, 1977. These authors distinguish three different types of tu quoque, only one of which is tu quoque in the sense I attend to here. They refer to this type as involving "deontic-praxiological inconsistency", say that it can sometimes constitute a good argument which will successfully shift the burden of proof, and report a...

Price transparency begins at home.

W H E N IT COMES to reforming their price structure, it is to be hoped that hospitals will do the right thing for the wrong reason. They certainly show no signs of doing the right thing for the right reason. The right thing is to develop a coherent strategy for setting a structure of prices that combines an external, market-facing perspective on the value of particular services to particular cu...

Financial Reform Begins at Home

Recent scandals have called our attention to an issue, financial reporting, that we all know, privately at least, is long overdue. The issue goes far beyond fraud, as more and more financial statements require correction. Indeed, many, if not all, financial operations within corporations and government both cost far too much and do not produce the desired result. Reforms led by Congress, Attorn...

The management of burns begins at home.