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After a stormy summer in which the Kansas City School District shed more than 500 employees, its remade human resources department faces another huge task. With about 3,300 employees, the district still has about 1,000 more people than most districts with enrollments of about 17,000 students, said Steve Harris, the new assistant superintendent for human resources. “We’re way out of sync,” Harris said. “We want to try to get as close as we can for the next school year.”

It is simply impossible to extend health-care benefits to an additional 32 million people without significantly increasing cost. As we know, as government costs go up, taxes go up. The government has never shown any indication of trying to reduce it's own costs, as evidenced by the $4,700 pay raise congress has given itself this year, while the unemployment rate climbed from 7.2% in December 2008 to 10.2% in October. In a report (available from Politico) issued by Richard Foster, chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, shows the cost of Obamacare would increase from $11.6 billion in...

Sometimes it's best to go back and listen to the heavyweights in order to truely learn. Some answers don't deserve to be forgotten. _ Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman explores the unsettling dynamics set into motion when government imposes itself into the health care system. (1978) _