Selected Citations

Below is a sample of posts and articles in which this blog is cited or one of its authors is quoted. In summary, citations have appeared in online (including blogs) or print editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, National Public Radio, Financial Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Business Week, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Politico, The Hill, and other publications and blogs of significance.

Paul Krugman. (4/2/09). “The banks” versus “some banks.” The New York Times.

Maggie Mahar. (9/25/09). More on proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. The Century Foundation.

Kevin Drum. (9/28/09). Who benefits from Medicare Advantage? Mother Jones.

Ezra Klein. (9/29/09). Is Medicare Advantage worth it? The Washington Post.

Ezra Klein. (9/29/09). A wasteful program. The Washington Post.

Aaron Carroll. (9/29/09). Why are we cutting Medicare Advantage? Rational Arguments.

Andrew Sullivan. (9/30/09). 14 cents on the dollar. The Atlantic.

Terence Kane. (9/30/09). Senior-bating in healthcare debate. The Hill.

Thomas Greaney. (9/30/09). Health reform and Medicare: Part I. The Health Care Blog.

Jane Sasseen and Catherine Arnst. (10/1/09). Why business fears the public option. Business Week.

Maggie Mahar. (10/1/09). Seniors would save far more than they lose. The Washington Post.

Ezra Klein. (10/5/09). Health economist Austin Frakt dismantles the idea that the difference between what private insurers and public insurers pay represents “cost-shifting.” The Washington Post.

Lea Winerman. (10/5/09). Under Senate Finance Committee plan, high-risk insurance pools get funding boost. Online NewsHour.

Cliff Kuang. (10/6/09). How to become a design genius: Take time off. Lots of it. Fast Company.

Aaron Carroll. (10/7/09). High risk pools. Rational Arguments.

Ezra Klein. (10/7/09). The question of cost-shifting. The Washington Post.

Aaron Carroll. (10/8/09). Uniquely American? Or uniquely bad? The Huffington Post.

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. (10/12/09). Health Care Arena. Politico.

Kevin Drum. (10/13/09). Is cost shifting bogus? Mother Jones.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (10/14/09). Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Health Insurance Reform Will Lead to Medicare Benefit Cuts for Seniors’.

Ezra Klein. (10/14/09). Putting hospitals on a diet. The Washington Post.

Tyler Cowen. (10/15/09). Austin Frakt and Ian Crosby on the insurance antitrust exemption. Marginal Revolution.

Ezra Klein. (10/15/09). The Medicare Advantage scam. The Washington Post.

Ezra Klein. (10/15/09). Another perspective on the antitrust exemption for the insurance industry. The Washington Post.

Andrew Sullivan. (10/16/09). From the dept. of careful what you wish for. The Atlantic.

Uwe Reinhardt. (10/16/09). Is Medicare raising prices for the privately insured? The New York Times.

Esme Deprez. (10/19/09). Reviving an old threat in health-insurance battle. Business Week.

Jonathan Cohn. (10/21/09). Daily Treatment, biggest losers edition. The New Republic.

David Welna. (10/23/09). Democrats push to end insurer’s antitrust exemption. National Public Radio.

Lisa Wangsness. (10/25/09). Fears of health monopoly as Congress urges collaboration. The Boston Globe.

Jonathan Cohn. (10/26/09). Daily Treatment, likes and dislikes. The New Republic.

Tyler Cowen. (10/31/09). How well will the public option work. Marginal Revolution.

Kevin Drum. (11/2/09). The Frakt curve. Mother Jones.

Jonathan Cohn. (11/2/09). Why American health care is so expensive. The New Republic.

Ezra Klein. (11/2/09). If Best Buy sold health care. The Washington Post.

Jonathan Cohn. (11/2/09). Daily Treatment, man bites dog edition. The New Republic.

Cathy Arnst. (11/2/09). U.S. medical prices highest in the world. Business Week.

Kevin Drum. (11/17/09). The Swiss system. Mother Jones.

Matthew Yglesias. (11/17/09). The next health reform debate. Think Progress.

Andrew Sullivan. (11/19/09). Cost control, cost control, cost control, ctd. The Atlantic.

Stephen Koff. (11/21/09). Senate bill would also cut Medicare Advantage but reductions would not be as deep as in House measure. The Plain Dealer.

Andrew Sullivan. (11/24/09). Health Incentive Plans. The Atlantic.

Jonathan Cohn. (11/25/09). Daily Treatment, giving thanks edition. The New Republic.

Igor Volsky. (12/9/09). Would the Medicare buy-in hurt providers? Think Progress.

Matthew Yglesias. (12/9/09). The phantom menace of cost-shifting. Think Progress.

Kevin Drum. (12/9/09). Joe Lieberman is 21% right (and 79% wrong). Mother Jones.

Megan McArdle. (12/9/09). Medicare cost shifting: Does it happen, and how much? The Atlantic.

Gwen Robinson. (12/10/09). An economy of one’s own. Financial Times.

Ezra Klein. (12/15/09). The political cost of failure. The Washington Post.

Ezra Klein. (12/18/09). The 60th vote? The Washington Post.

Kevin Drum. (12/20/09). Why 2014? Mother Jones.

Patrick Appel. (12/20/09). After reform. The Atlantic.

Kevin Drum. (12/22/09). Healthcare ping pong? Mother Jones.

Ezra Klein. (12/22/09). Letters to health-care Santa: Bring the market to Medicare Advantage, and the House’s employer mandate to the final bill. The Washington Post.

Jonathan Cohn. (12/29/09). The Kristol ball. The New Republic.

Matthew Yglesias. (12/29/09). Repeal can’t happen, rollback can. Think Progress.

Igor Volsky. (12/29/09). Health care industry coordinating effort to opt states out of health care reform. Think Progress.

Ezra Klein. (1/8/10). The health-care and wages debate, continued! The Washington Post.

Kevin Drum. (1/8/10). Healthcare and wages. Mother Jones.

Matthew Yglesias. (1/8/10). Health care and wages. Think Progress.

Andrew Sullivan. (1/12/10). Yes, those Medicare cuts can happen. The Atlantic.

Jonathan Chait. (1/12/10). Let me explain the Cadillac tax. The New Republic.

Jonathan Cohn. (1/13/10). House not inclined to roll over, play dead. The New Republic.

Kevin Drum. (1/13/10). Healthcare reform and cost control. Mother Jones.

Ezra Klein. (1/13/10). The Senate’s awful free rider provision likely to survive negotiations. The Washington Post.

Igor Volsky. (1/20/10). Brown’s victory wasn’t a referendum on national health reform legislation. Think Progress.

Ezra Klein. (2/1/10). Plan B is terrible. The Washington Post.

Andrew Sullivan. (2/1/10). Pass. The. Damn. Bill. The Atlantic.

James Kwak. (2/3/10). The Republican plan, II: You’re on your own. The Baseline Scenario.

Ezra Klein. (2/4/10). More mathbell! The Washington Post.

Mark Thoma. (2/4/10). Is Austrianism serious? Economist’s View.

Nick Baumann. (2/4/10). The market for economics. Mother Jones.

David Lightman. (2/5/10). House to vote on stripping health insurers’ antitrust protection. McClatchy Newspapers.

Kevin Drum. (2/8/10). Quick hits. Mother Jones.