Externalities and Other Parasites, by Donald Herzog, is one of the best, if not the best, takedowns of economics I’ve read. And it’s hard to argue
I began my editorial on the already famous Massachusetts mortality study, How certain are we that health insurance reduces mortality rates? Weeks before the Patient Protection
You may remember that a few months ago, I – along with some other people – were a bit upset about an article Megan McArdle
Unfortunately, the letter I drafted with colleagues in response to Megan McArdle’s March 2010 The Atlantic article “Myth Diagnosis” was not published in the magazine.
February brought the greatest number of monthly hits to this blog to date, by about a factor of two. The traffic boost was mainly due
Megan McArdle has intersected with my information sources twice in the last few weeks, this time on the topic of debt. Those of you who
The international humanitarian law of war requires that Medical personnel exclusively assigned to medical duties must be respected and protected in all circumstances. Article 19
Robert Pear’s piece on Harvard’s tweaks to their health benefits—and the subsequent faculty “uproar”—has thoroughly made the rounds on the health policy blogosphere. For those
You should read Michael Cannon’s post at Forbes in which he comments on the state of the evidence base in support of universal coverage. Before one
In his comments on the Sommers et al. study, Philip Klein raises an important question about the ACA and freedom. This study reported that when RomneyCare insured the
There’s no shortage of empirical debates in health policy, but few have been so fraught as the question of whether health insurance actually delivers health gains
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