This is it for me, at least for this chapter. I am off to join some people who don’t much appreciate voices singing out of key, and while they might be able to get over my public disdain for coaches who punt in opposing territory, it would be rather awkward to continue to point out [...]
Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
The End of the Internet
Posted in Corruption, Education, Energy Policy, Health Care, Housing Crisis, Housing Policy, Industrial Policy, Inspirational, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Middle East, Miscellaneous, NAFTA, Obama, War on Terror on December 15, 2009 | 29 Comments »
Letting the Door Hit You
Posted in Foreigners, Health Care, Immigration, Labor Policy on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For years we have been subjected to odd debates about whether the government should permit, encourage, or attempt to prevent the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada. Seniors love it; they want to be able to drive across the border and save money. The drug companies hate it; they want to charge American prices. That [...]
Confidence and Delusion
Posted in Abortion, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Nick Kristof hits on one of the most bizarre aspects of the health care debate: the inability even to agree that there is a problem in the first place: We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream [...]
Way Under the Radar
Posted in Corruption, George W. Bush, Health Care, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Obama, Transportation Policy on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I find it awfully difficult to care about county elections. Luckily, Ben Adler seems willing to look at them, and he picked up something interesting: Unlike the New York City mayoral, or the Virginia governor’s race, there is a really bad sign for Democrats out of the East Coast:… Republicans made inroads in New York’s [...]
The Fierce Urgency of Something
Posted in Abortion, Ben Bernanke, Corruption, Dick Cheney, Education, Energy Policy, George W. Bush, Health Care, Immigration, Marriage Equality, Meltdown on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having had to listen to this: It’s been just 68 days since that afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, when Senator McCain introduced me as [...]
MFN for Patients
Posted in Health Care on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gregg Easterbrook asks about community rating and then goes on a very intelligent tangent: what would happen if medical service providers were required to offer their services to everyone at the same cost? health care proposals now in the Senate are so utterly fixated on handouts and giveaways that they don’t even address a core [...]
Pour Encourager Les Autres
Posted in Health Care, Joe Lieberman, Russia on October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I doubt Joe Lieberman needed any outside encouragement to demonstrate his particular brand of weasel on health care reform. However, Harry Reid might need some help seeing the golden opportunity staring him in the face, so here is some free advice for Harry: slap Lieberman in the face. Publicly. I think most people can understand [...]
American Superalloy
Posted in Health Care, Immigration, Industrial Policy, Labor Policy, Mexico, Politics on October 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Luis Gutierrez is leading a rally in DC to argue for comprehensive immigration reform. We simply cannot wait any longer for a bill that keeps our families together, protects our workers and allows a pathway to legalization for those who have earned it…We need a bill that says if you come here to hurt our [...]
Role of Government
Posted in Corruption, Energy Policy, Health Care, Middle East on October 7, 2009 | 11 Comments »
David Brooks’ silly season seems to have found an Indian Summer, as he goes on about his imaginary friends Mr. Bentham and Mr. Hume: If you put Mr. Bentham in charge of the government, he’d proceed with confidence. If you told him to solve a complicated issue like the global-warming problem, he’d gather the smartest [...]
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
Posted in Food, Football, George W. Bush, Health Care, Meltdown, Obama, Tim Geithner on October 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The basic story is tragic if common: person eats food, person gets sick from food. In this case, the person was a young Minnesota dance instructor named Stephanie Smith, and the food was ground beef processed by Cargill in Wisconsin from sources in Nebraska, Texas, South Dakota, and Uraguay and contaminated with the E.coli bacteria, [...]
