Some secrets hide in plain sight.
We often hear that higher ed’s financial challenges lie primarily in cuts in per capita state aid and increases in:
Fixed costs (for salaries, benefits, maintenance and operations, and technology).
Expenditures on expensive emerging and growing fields of study (e.g., animation, gaming and new media, artificial intelligence, computer science, computational social science, data analytics and informatics, financial technology, human-computer interaction, machine learning, neuroscience, and sustainability).
Administrative and student support and student life expenditures.
Standards of care (the heightened expectations for facilities and services).
There’s obvious truth to this explanation. But there’s also reason to think that this explanation is partial, misleading and disingenuous.
Tomlinson: America s health care system flails again, focused on profit over patients
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People wait in a line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, near the Bayou City Event Center in Houston.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Carmen Acosta, 86, rests as she waits in line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot with her son Robert, right, and husband Luis Acosta, 91, in back seat, on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, near the Bayou City Event Center in Houston. The son said they had been waiting about 45 minutes.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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People line up for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine administered by University Health at Wonderland of Americas Mall, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. It is the first day of vaccinating people in the 1B group, those 65 years and over and 18 and above with certain medical conditions. The 17,280 vaccination slots were taken up in five hours after University Hea
Tomlinson: America’s health care system flails again, focused on profit over patients By Chris Tomlinson, Staff writer
Profit-driven companies and private partnerships have proven once again they cannot solve the U.S. health care system’s problems.
Or maybe it’s just more profitable to leave things alone.
Texans spent the weekend hitting redial or refresh to get an appointment for a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. They discovered a complicated, disjointed, illogical and unfair process that perfectly reflects how all health care is delivered in this country.
Begin with the pharmaceutical companies struggling to produce enough doses because they’ve outsourced production. Move on to the federal government, which relies on private logistics companies for distribution during their busiest season.
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens at right. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
SAN ANTONIO – Four Texans who graduated from universities in San Antonio are headed to the White House to serve in President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced two graduates from the University of Texas at San Antonio Emmy Ruiz and Adrian Saenz will serve prominent roles in the administration.